Hey folks, we had a pretty sizable outage today. No scapegoats here, just utter and complete boneheadery on my part. Scores and news will be caught up soon.
update: the site and the toolbar should be all caught up and back to normal.
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009The Playoffs are Back!
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008How did I follow up my championship year in Fantasy Football in ’07? With a dead-last performance in ’08. No joke. My ego is thoroughly bruised, so there’s no way we’re not doing another NFL Playoff Challenge! RUWT? Sports T-shirts handmade by yours truly are up for grabs as well as a $50 gift certificate to Amazon.com.
Here’s how it’ll work:
- Predict the winner of each of the 11 NFL playoff games
- After the Super Bowl, the 3 users that picked the most correct games will win a RUWT? Sports T-Shirt
- If one fan gets each of the 11 games right, he or she will win a $50 gift certificate to Amazon.com
- If multiple fans run the table, up to five will each win a $25 gift certificate to Amazon.com
Be sure to check back here on the blog for updates and standings. What are you waiting for? Get picking!
First Round Games:
Falcons vs. Cardinals
Colts vs. Chargers
Ravens vs. Dolphins
Eagles vs. Vikings
Are you ready?
Sunday, December 28th, 2008Are you sure? ‘Cause we’re getting into “there’s no good reason to leave the couch” territory. Seemingly every NFL game today has playoff implications, and we have a week of great bowl games just around the corner. And I’m in such a good mood about this week, I won’t even bring up how much the highway robbery that doesn’t have the Longhorns in the title game. I’m not gonna do it!
Hope everybody is having a great holiday week…
Keeping the Regular Season Interesting
Sunday, November 30th, 2008Well that was fun.
Fresh off of a 10-3, rolling through the playoffs to win it all performance in my NFL Fantasy league last year, I put up a big stinker in 2008. I’ll finish under-.500, miss the playoffs, and I’m still blaming Eli and the Giants D for costing me a must-win back in Week 6.
And just as a side-note, you shot yourself Plax? Really? Really?!?
Anyways, without Fantasy to keep me occupied my productivity on Sundays is threatening to skyrocket, and I just can’t have that. So to keep things interesting I’m dipping my toe into the world of BetUS.com, out first NFL sport sponsor at areyouwatchingthis.com. I’m a sportsbook n00b, but I figure this is a great way to add some spice to the rest of the regular season. This week? I’m liking the Colts giving 6½ at the Browns.
This should be fun.
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All is right with the world
Thursday, November 27th, 2008It’s Turkey Day, tasty food and beverages on tap, a solid slate of sports games on TV, and the Lions are getting shallacked and it’s only half time.
Everything is right with the world.
Happy Thanksgiving everybody. The very best to you and yours.
Repairing NASCAR?
Thursday, November 6th, 2008I get a surprising amount of emails from the contact us link on the site. Most of it is either SPAM or a request to get a copy of a high school football game that their grandkid played in. I got an interesting note this week about NASCAR though that I thought was good enough to post. The new blog plan? Outsourcing!
You want to know how to put the excitement back into NASCAR? No you don’t. Not really. I watched NASCAR for years, starting with Fireball Roberts and ending with Bill Elliot in ’87. I watched 5 minutes of the first restrictor plate race and was so disgusted I never went back.
NASCAR has degenerated into a modeling agency where 19 year old kids are recruited, not for their driving skills, but for how much they can appeal to teeny-boppers, for the sole purpose of selling merchandise. These kids don’t hold a candle to the worst of the old bunch and calling them race car drivers is an insult to everyone who ever drove NASCAR prior to ’87.
You want to fix it? Okay, how’s this for starters? Get rid of the stupid car of the future and get back to real cars. Put 426 and 427 factory crate motors in them and turn the tuners loose again. Put air dams and wings on them for down force, put real suspensions under them, real tires on them and let them race. The modeling agency sissies will be weeded out real fast and a crop of real race car drivers will be developed. And best of all, you will regain your fan base. Those of us who enjoy real racing and absolutely detest what NASCAR has become. If it stays like it is, NASCAR needs to change its name to Naive Adolescents Slowly Crawling Around a Racetrack.
Montoya and the F1 drives should be winning every race. For guys of that caliber to get beat by the babies driving NASCAR is an insult, not only to them, but to all the fans of real racing.
Just call me Mark Tres Cero
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008What? Really? It’s been two months since I’ve talked to you, sports fans? Totally unacceptable.
Since I’m super blogglenecked, here’s a quick recap in no particular order to clear out the tubes. Cause it’s not a dump truck.
- Turned 30 last month. Kinda crazy. Went to Vegas. Got kinda crazy.
- I’m hoping AI to the Pistons will be as awesome as Shaq to the Suns was supposed to be.
- I fired myself last month because it seems that it’s what startups are supposed to do.
- I rehired myself the next day after a massive pay cut.
- I got laid off (for real) from my awesome job as the “Geek In Residence” at an ad agency. Found another great job to keep the lights on, but man am I gonna miss that title.
- Nike’s “Fate” commerical with LT and Polamalu is the best 60-second spot I’ve seen in a really long time.
- RUWT? Sports has a fan page on Facebook. For some reason, so do I.
- Remember that Blackberry sports scores app that was supposed to come out? Never made it out of alpha. But it’ll still be released eventually. Promise.
- Tech beating the Longhorns with 0:01 on the clock was devastating.
- Yes, the economy sucks but RUWT? isn’t going anywhere.
RUWT? Sports Scores on Twitter
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008There’s a lot of functionality that lives outside of the RUWT? website, so I’m going to try and do a better job of profiling some of the ways you can interact with RUWT? when you’re not at the .com.
If you’re a Twitter fan, be sure to check out all of the different accounts that you can follow to get exactly the news you want. Questions? Drop me a line.
Sports: Auto Racing, College Basketball, College Football, Golf, MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, Soccer
Points Levels: Elevated, High, Severe
RUWTbot Rationales: Close Finish, Overtime, Upset, Ranked Teams, Extra Innings, No-hitter, Perfect Game, Extra Time, Penalty Kicks
RUWT? Blackberry Sports Scores, Anyone?
Friday, August 22nd, 2008The hits keep on coming.
Launching officially in early September, the final touches are going on RUWTberry, the official RUWT? Blackberry sports scores app. If you’re interested in beta testing before the official launch, email me at mark@areyouwatchingthis.com.
BetUS.com Might Be The Best Site in Existence
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008Hm, well maybe not in existence, but they’re RUWT?‘s first official sponsor so that makes them pretty darn pimp!
They’re the world’s leading online sportsbook, and will be the official NFL sponsor for the 2008-2009 season. They’ve decided to support us, so support them when it’s time to lay down a $20 on Sunday’s game!
Are you looking to reach the most passionate sports fans out there? Start advertising on RUWT? Sports today!