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Dear chumps and chumpettes, Once again the NFL playoffs are upon us, and with it the annual Interference NFL playoff pool. To each of the playoff teams assign a unique integer between 1 and 12. Every time a team wins a game, you get that many points. Highest score after the Super Bowl wins...

Assign each of the 12 playoff teams a unique integer between 1 and 12. Each time that team wins, you get that many points. High score at the end wins. First tiebreaker is the total score in the Super Bowl. Second tiebreaker is time of entry (earlier wins). THE CONTESTANTS: AFC 1. New...

Same deal as always. Assign to each of the twelve playoff teams a unique integer from 1 to 12. Every time a team wins a game, you win that many points. High score at the end wins. First tiebreaker is total number of points scored in the Super Bowl (TM). Second tiebreaker is the time of your...

Same rules as always. Assign a unique integer between 1 and 12 to each of the 12 playoff teams. If you break this rule, Ndamukong Suh will sit on you. Each time a team wins a playoff game, you win that many points. High score at the end wins. First tiebreaker is total score in the Super...

Same deal as always. Assign a unique integer 1-12 to each of the twelve playoff teams. Each time a team wins a game, you win that many points. High score wins. First tiebreaker is total score in the Super Bowl. Second tiebreaker is the time picks are submitted (earlier is better). And now...

Same rules as ever. Take the twelve playoff teams. Using the integers from 1 to 12 once each, assign an integer to each team. Every time each team wins, you win that many points. Highest total score wins. Tiebreaker is total number of points scored in the Super Bowl -- whoever is closest...

The skinny Same deal as last time. Assign a unique integer between 1 and 12 to each of the twelve playoff teams. Each time a team wins, you win that many points. High score at the end wins. First tiebreaker will be the total number of points scored in the Super Bowl (closest to the total...

In memoriam: Brett Favre 1969-2010 --------------------------------------------------------- NFL Playoffs Pool rules: Twelve teams have qualified for the NFL playoffs. To each team, assign a unique integer between 1 and 12. Every time that team wins a game, you win that many...

As you were, then.

More analysis of Bill Belichick's 4th-and-2 decision from Advanced NFL Stats here.

Rules: Assign each team an integer between 1 and 12, using each number exactly once. Every time a team wins a game, you collect that many points. Tiebreaker = total points scored in the Super Bowl. Playoff seedings: NFC #1 Giants #2 Panthers #3 Vikings #4 Cardinals #5 Falcons #6 Eagles AFC...

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=2315990

<nt> (Edit: This is for LA2, Wednesday)

Homer: Please please please, I want to make the team. Clemens. did I make the team? Roger: You sure did! Homer: I did! Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! In your face, Strawberry! Roger: Wait a minute, are you Ken Griffey Jr.? Homer: No. Roger: Sorry. Didn't mean to get your hopes up.

"If I could have dinner with one famous celebrity, it'd be Bono."

New feature from Google: sets. Punch in a few items, and Google tries to complete the set. The possibilities for procrastination at work are endless. However, I punched in "uno", "dos" and "tres". Among the objects returned was a "quatorce", but no "catorce".

Is it just me, or is it a tad unreasonable for an umpire to call a balk with the score tied and a runner on third in the bottom of the ninth while the pitcher is issuing an intentional walk to the batter? link

Love and Peace or Else Vertigo Elevation Electric Co An Cat Dubh Into The Heart City Of Blinding Lights Beautiful Day Miracle Drug Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own New Year's Day Sunday Bloody Sunday Bullet the Blue Sky Running to Stand Still Pride Where The Streets Have No Name One...

link For some reason, Bill Simmons references some song called "New Song". Is this guy really a longtime U2 fan?

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=page2invitational/2005 Right now, Jon Stewart is absolutely destroying Dan Rather. Kobe and Shaq are nearly tied with Brad and Jen. Ken Jennings got a tough draw - he trails Bill Belichick in the "genius" category.

Guardian story on a US soldier kidnapped by insurgents, dated February 2, 2005: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1403711,00.html Pretty conclusive proof that the soldier is an action figure, dated February 1, 2005...

1. Go snorkeling in the Charles River? 2. Cross Commonwealth Ave. blindfolded? 3. Give Joe Torre a lap dance in the dugout the next time the Yankees are in town?

On an inbounds play to win the game, if no one is guarding the inbounds pass and Kobe Bryant is double-teamed, get the ball back to the trigger man.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/30/tv.jennings.ap/index.html

Since the Wall Street Journal is evil and subscription-only, here's the article: