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  • The 5 Best TV Characters Under The Radar

    Last week I gave you all my recommendations for the upcoming fall TV season. The process of combining all the shows I watch into a single schedule made me start to think about all the great characters these shows represent. While everybody loves watching Jim, Pam, Michael, and Dwight on The Office, what makes that show so great is the cast of outstanding characters that comes along with those stars.

    A great supporting character can occasionally go episodes at a time without any screen time, but then they show up and can completely steal the scene, even from the main character. It’s these characters that really make today’s top shows work, and I’ve got my 5 favorite supporting characters for you, in no particular order, after the break.

  • Week In Review: August 29th – September 4th

    Sorry this is a few days late, but I decided to actually take Labor Day off this year.

    Top 5 posts for the week:

    Peak number of RSS feed subscribers: 109

    Number of Facebook Fans: 60

    Busiest day: September 2nd, with 1,490 unique visitors.

    Top browser: Firefox with 33.11% market share.

    Top operating system: Windows with 65.94% market share.

  • 2010 NFL: Regular Season Predictions

    First of all, happy Labor Day! Second, happy opening week of the 2010 NFL season. We finally kick off the regular season on Thursday with the Vikings playing in New Orleans at the Superdome against the defending Super Bowl champs. Here’s my picks for the upcoming season (Madden simulated picks in italics):

    Division Winners
    NFC West – San Francisco 49ers
    — San Francisco 49ers (7-9)
    NFC North – Minnesota Vikings
    — Minnesota Vikings (11-5)
    NFC South – New Orleans Saints
    — New Orleans Saints (13-3)
    NFC East – Dallas Cowboys
    — Philadelphia Eagles (11-5)
    AFC West – San Diego Chargers
    — Kansas City Chiefs (12-4)
    AFC North – Baltimore Ravens
    — Baltimore Ravens (11-5)
    AFC South – Indianapolis Colts
    — Indianapolis Colts (9-7)
    AFC East – New York Jets
    — New England Patriots (10-6)
    NFC Wildcards – Philadelphia Eagles, Green Bay Packers
    — Atlanta Falcons (11-5), Dallas Cowboys (9-7)
    AFC Wildcards – Miami Dolphins, Cincinnati Bengals
    — Pittsburgh Steelers (11-5), NY Jets (9-7)

    Conference Champions
    AFC – Indianapolis Colts
    — Kansas City Chiefs
    NFC – Minnesota Vikings
    — New Orleans Saints

    Super Bowl Winner
    Minnesota Vikings
    — New Orleans Saints

    **Edit** – Here’s ESPN’s expert predictions, it’ll be interesting to see how I fare against these schmucks.

  • What Do You Get When You Combine Netflix & Blockbuster?

    Hello there boys and girls! I’ve recently given you a sneak peak at the upcoming fall TV season, another edition of Entry Level Geek, and even a Top 10 list. Well, I’m in the midst of a game/movie pass from Blockbuster and I’ve still been churning through my Netflix queue, so I’ve been accumulating a backlog of movies and finally had some time to sit down and watch a bunch of them. Watching all these movies leads to more movie reviews, and I’ve been wanting to expand our library of movie reviews, so that’s what you’ll be getting from me this month. September is movie month!

    For the rest of the month, you’ll get about 3 movie reviews a week, on average. Most of them are new movies that have come out in the last month or so, so they’ll all be fairly recent. If you are getting ready to rent a movie and would like to see if it’s one I’ve seen, feel free to hit me up on twitter, and as always, if there are any movies you’d like me to review, sound off in the comments below.

  • T.W.I.S.T. for August 29 – September 4

    College Football is underway and the NFL starts this week, so starting next week, we’ll have a football feature on Mondays to cover all the weeks football news. But for this week, we’ll keep it all right here. Here’s this week’s T.W.I.S.T.

    NFL

    College Football

    • Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram, running back for Alabama, had a procedure done on his knee and will be out for the opener. If this becomes some kind of persistent injury, it will be interesting to see how it affects their offense.
    • Texas Head Coach Mack Brown has stated that if the Heisman Trophy Trust takes back Reggie Bush’s 2005 Heisman Trophy, he thinks they should give it to his former QB, Vince Young. Hard to disagree with him on that one.
    • Boise State thought they were getting a great deal leaving the WAC to join the Mountain West earlier this summer, but then Utah left for the Pac-10 and now BYU is leaving… to go independent!
    • The Big 10 conference has released it’s new divisions! Although they are not yet named they will be split up like this: Nebraska, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, and Northwestern in one and Ohio State, Wisconsin, Penn State, Illinois, Purdue, and Indiana in the other.
    • QB Jeremiah Masoli has won his appeal and will now be allowed to play this season for Ole Miss after transferring (being kicked out) from Oregon. He won’t start the opener, but he’ll be their starting QB for the remainder of the season.
    • Bodog.com has released the starting odds have been released for the National Championship winners. Here’s some interesting ones: Nebraska 15/1, Iowa 20/1, Texas 14/1, OU 15/2, Bama 4/1, Ohio St 5/1, Boise 8/1. The field 25/1

    NHL

    After denying his 17 year deal, the NHL has approved a new 15 year deal for Ilya Kovalchuk to sign with the New Jersey Devils. 15 freakin’ years… that’s ridiculous.