Hijinks Inc.

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  • It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

    It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

    You hear that? Shh, be real quiet. Now you can hear it a bit, and it’s starting to get louder. That’s right, you guessed it, it’s football season boys and girls! We’ve got real life football (I’m sorry, that’d American football to our loyal followers overseas) being played this Sunday as the NFL preseason kicks off with the Hall of Fame game, and the NCAA season starts in 1 month!

    We’ve got 5 Mondays until the college season begins on September 2, and the NFL regular season starts 1 week after that, so we’ll take some time to cover the regular ‘preparing for football season’ rundown, beginning with a college football prediction poll. (more…)

  • This Week In Sports Tomfoolery: It’s sports, with a T.W.I.S.T.! (June 20-26)

    Welcome to TWIST! The first of, hopefully, many weekly updates regarding the wide world of sports. You read that right:

    tomfoolery
    Main Entry: tom·fool·ery
    1. Foolish behavior.
    2. Something trivial or foolish; utter nonsense; rubbish

    You’ve come to a blog called Hijinks Inc, you can’t really be surprised that I worked a word like tomfoolery into the title of a recurring post. Besides, if you know me at all, you know that this fits me, and most of the stuff I come up with, quite well. Alright, now that I’ve got the introductions out of the way…

    This was a pretty crazy week in the wide world of sports. One of the most dominant athletes in any sport lost for the ‘first’ time, the longest tennis match in the history of the universe was played and the favorites were knocked out of both the World Cup and the College World Series. Here’s some quick hits:

    MMA

    NBA

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