Outside the Boxscore Reaches The 2,000 Post Milestone

It's been three years of classic posts here on Outside the Boxscore and we have finally reached the 2,000 post plateau.

We would like to thanks all you loyal fans and random visitors to the site who came from a link or accidentally trying to search for something else. We would also like to thank all of our staff writers and people who have kept this site moving, it couldn't have be done without you.

So, how would we celebrate this milestone? The only way I know how, Endless David Caruso One-Liners:



(Image Courtesy of The Werewolf Cafe)

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Outside the Boxscore/Fantasy Draft Help 2010 NFL Draft Live Blog

Hello fans and readers of Outside the Boxscore, it's that time of year again
for the best collegiate football players to be drafted into the National Football League.

In conjuction with our 21st Century Media Alliance partners, Fantasy Draft Help.com in presenting our 2010 NFL Draft Liveblog.

So come join us starting tonight at 7pm est/4pm pst for our thoughts on how the Detroit Lions will somehow screw up their first round pick, What would Tim Tebow do if the Raiders draft him and numerous references to Alison Brie, Anna Kendrick, and Jenna Fischer.

Will be here, the question is will you?



 

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Outside the Boxscore's Oscar Picks

With the Oscars coming up this weekend, it's time for Outside the Boxscore to get it's prediction on of who is going to win.

We had about a 54% prediction on last year's Oscars picks, so take that for what's it worth.

Here are the Picks:

Original Screenplay: The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal)
Adapted Screenplay: Up in The Air (Jason Reitmann and Sheldon Turner)
Achievement in Visual Effects: Avatar (Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones)
Achievement in Sound Mixing: The Hurt Locker (Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett)
Achievement in Sound Editing: Inglorious Basterds (Wylie Stateman)
Best Live Action Short Film: Instead of Abracadabra (Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström)
Best Animated Short Film: A Matter of Loaf or Death (Nick Park)
Best Achievement in Make-Up: The Young Victoria (Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore)
Best Achievement in Costume Design: Coco before Chanel (Catherine Leterrier)
Best Achievement in Film Editing: Avatar (Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron)
Achievement in Art Direction: Avatar (Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg
Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair)
Achievement in Cinematography: Avatar (Mauro Fiore)
Achievement in Musical Written For Motion Picture (Original Score) : Avatar (James Horner)
Achievement in Musical Written For Motion Picture (Original Song) : The Weary Kind "Theme from Crazy Heart" (Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett)
Best Documentary Short Subject: The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant (Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert)
Best Documentary Feature: Food Inc (Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein)
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year: The White Ribbon (Germany)
Best Animated Feature Film: Up (Pete Docter)
Achievement in Directing: James Cameron (Avatar)
Performance by Actor in Supporting Role: Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Basterds)
Performance by Actress in Supporting Role: Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air)
Performance by Actress in Leading Role: Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
Performance by Actor in Leading Role: Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
Best Motion Picture of the Year: Avatar (James Cameron and Jon Landau)

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OTB Celebrates 1,500th post!

Hello dear readers and viewers of Outside The Boxscore, we finally eclipsed the 1,500th post mark.

We thanks you over 130,000 visitors to the site and over 160,000 page views.

Yep, that means we've officially been around three years in total and still kickin'.

So, how do we celebrate our 1,500th post? Carrie Underwood, No Doubt.

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OTB's NFL Week 10 Picks

With a Thursday game this week, here is an early edition of Outside the Boxscore's NFL Week 10 picks.

I had my first terrible week of the season with a 6-7 record and fallen behind the Great Sports Name HOF by 11 games.

Here are the current standings:

93-36 - Great Sports Name Hall Of Fame
82-47 - Outside The Boxscore (11 Games Back)

Of course, GSNHOF is gloating and recently posted this in his week 10 picks:

With an eleven game lead it's tempting to gloat, but I'll try to stick to the high road and insist that Ben can still win this one.

Obviously, he is gloating passive-agressively. However, to give him credit, he is currently picking better than these so-called football experts at ESPN.

Hell, I'm only a game or two behind Eric Allen and Seth Wickersham. Here are my picks for week 10.

NFL Week 10
THU, NOV 12 TIME (ET) TV
Chicago at San Francisco 8:20 PM NFL
SUN, NOV 15 TIME (ET) TV RESOURCES LOCATION
New Orleans at St. Louis 1:00 PM FOX
Tampa Bay at Miami 1:00 PM FOX
Detroit at Minnesota 1:00 PM FOX
Jacksonville at NY Jets 1:00 PM CBS
Buffalo at Tennessee 1:00 PM CBS
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh 1:00 PM CBS
Denver at Washington 1:00 PM CBS
Atlanta at Carolina 1:00 PM FOX
Kansas City at Oakland 4:05 PM CBS
Seattle at Arizona 4:15 PM FOX
Dallas at Green Bay 4:15 PM FOX
Philadelphia at San Diego 4:15 PM
New England at Indianapolis 8:20 PM
MON, NOV 16 TIME (ET) TV RESOURCES LOCATION
Baltimore at Cleveland 8:30 PM ESPN

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OTB's NFL Week 8 Picks

As we continue the OTB vs. GSNHOF NFL picks contest, I keep falling further behind.

Here are the current records:

75-28 - Great Sports Name Hall Of Fame
67-36 - Outside The Boxscore (8 Games Back)

Yep, I'm only 8 games back and I'm picking at a rate of 65%. So that's really nothing to hang my head about; if I was below 50%, then I would take a serious look at my NFL picking habits.

GSNHOF's latest trash talk came regarding my Raiders pick over New York Jets:

Well the Raiders were themselves this week and got slaughtered 38-0 (how bad did that hurt Ben?) and the Eagles, though they still looked sloppy, easily took care of a horrible Redskins team on Monday night

I think GSNHOF might need some vicodin to calm themselves down. Besides, the Raiders will probably win this week just prove the point and screw me over again in regards to my pick.

Anyway, here are the picks.

SUN, NOV 1 TIME (ET) TV
Houston at Buffalo 1:00 PM CBS
Cleveland at Chicago 1:00 PM CBS
Seattle at Dallas 1:00 PM FOX
St. Louis at Detroit 1:00 PM FOX
Denver at Baltimore 1:00 PM CBS
San Francisco at Indianapolis 1:00 PM FOX
Miami at NY Jets 1:00 PM CBS
NY Giants at Philadelphia 1:00 PM FOX
Jacksonville at Tennessee 4:05 PM CBS
Oakland at San Diego 4:05 PM CBS
Carolina at Arizona 4:15 PM FOX
Minnesota at Green Bay 4:15 PM FOX
MON, NOV 2 TIME (ET) TV
Atlanta at New Orleans 8:30 PM

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OTB Celebrates it's 1,000th post

Yep, we finally reached the 1,000th post milestone. When I originally started this blog, I had no idea that we would even touch this level of posts.

We've had alot of fun at the expense of many athletes, ESPN personalities and teams from Charles Barkley to the Detroit Lions to Digger Phelps to Michelle Beadle. We never meant any ill will but sometimes it ends up like that.

We have prided ourselves on our variety and different take on the world of sports and we hope to continue this well into the future.

Here are some quick notes about celebrating our 1,000th post

-> The first ever post (not including the intro) was about the NFL 2008 season of week 14
-> The most mentioned individual on the site is still Charles Barkley at 26 posts.
-> The most mentioned type of post is still the now-defunct "Today's Moment of Zen" at 68 posts.
-> The most mentioned female on OTB, ESPN sideline reporter Erin Andrews at 11 posts.

In the end, we thank you for your continued support and celebrate this 1,000th post with our two favorite videos at OTB.

Classic "poofy-hair" Carrie Underwood and Endless CSI Miami One-Liners, enjoy.

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OTB's NFL Week 6 Picks

In an interesting turn of events, OTB has cut into the GSNHOF lead in the NFL pick em' pool to only 4 games. However, both of us are currently picking winners at a rate of 67-70% which means we know alot about football or the experts truly know nothing since one ESPN expert has a lowering winning percentage than the both of us.

(I am looking at you, Eric Allen.)

This week look insanely hard with many tough games that could go either way, we will see what happens. Here are the picks

Week 6
SUN, OCT 18 TIME (ET) TV
Houston at Cincinnati 1:00 PM CBS
Detroit at Green Bay 1:00 PM FOX
Baltimore at Minnesota 1:00 PM CBS
NY Giants at New Orleans 1:00 PM FOX
Cleveland at Pittsburgh 1:00 PM CBS
Carolina at Tampa Bay 1:00 PM FOX
Kansas City at Washington 1:00 PM CBS
St. Louis at Jacksonville 1:00 PM FOX
Arizona at Seattle 4:05 PM FOX
Philadelphia at Oakland 4:05 PM FOX
Tennessee at New England 4:15 PM CBS
Buffalo at NY Jets 4:15 PM CBS
Chicago at Atlanta 8:20 PM NBC
MON, OCT 19 TIME (ET) TV
Denver at San Diego 8:30 PM ESPN

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OTB's NFL Week 5 Picks

Okay, for those of you keeping count, I am currently behind GSNHOF by 8 games in the NFL picks. However, when you compare the records it eventually looks like the trend will head towards me.

45-17 - Great Sports Name Hall Of Fame
37-25 - Outside The Boxscore (8 Games Back)

GSNHOF is picking at a rate of 72% of their games and eventually they have to trend down. Why? Well, obviously somethings are going to shake down in the NFL where games are going to become harder to pick and we all know that even the best prognosticators cannot keep up with a 70% winning percentage for the entire year.

Here are my picks for week 5 and I have feeling that comeback will be happening in the next few weeks.

Week 5
SUN, OCT 11 TIME (ET) TV
Cleveland at Buffalo 1:00 PM CBS
Dallas at Kansas City 1:00 PM FOX
Minnesota at St. Louis 1:00 PM FOX
Oakland at NY Giants 1:00 PM CBS
Tampa Bay at Philadelphia 1:00 PM FOX
Pittsburgh at Detroit 1:00 PM CBS
Washington at Carolina 1:00 PM FOX
Cincinnati at Baltimore 1:00 PM CBS
Atlanta at San Francisco 4:05 PM FOX
Jacksonville at Seattle 4:15 PM CBS
Houston at Arizona 4:15 PM CBS
New England at Denver 4:15 PM CBS
Indianapolis at Tennessee 8:20 PM NBC
MON, OCT 12 TIME (ET) TV
NY Jets at Miami 8:30 PM ESPN

Byes: Chicago, Green Bay, New Orleans, San Diego

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OTB hits the "The Middle Kingdom"

Hello fans and readers of Outside the Boxscore, this post is here to inform you that I will be on vacation (or what I like to call business) in China and Singapore from September 27-October the 6th. Essentially, selling ourselves to the Asian people.

However, do not fret. Outside the Boxscore will continue to bring you the stories that you covet as Snagamat, FDH's Rick Morris, current GSNHOF/Former OTB writer SpastikMooss and maybe a special guest or two will be filling in for my absence.

This necessarily does not mean that I will not be posting or updating the site when I am overseas but I figure it's better to make sure that you the fans will be covered while I'm gone.

So, hopefully I will be able to spread the word of Ginnifer Goodwin and Michelle Beadle to the Asian people or at least run into Wang ZhiZhi.

Thank You for continuing to follow Outside the Boxscore and feel free to make your asian jokes in the comments.

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OTB's NFL Week 2 Picks

After the first week of the Great Sports Name HOF and Outside the Boxscore battle in picking NFL games, GSNHOF is in the lead by five games. Tim's post was cordial and a nice write-up.

Then I read his post regarding his picks for week 2 on GSNHOF:

I went 14-2 last week and so I'm kiling Outside the Boxscore in the Great NFL Prediction Battle, so let's hope this keeps up.

Let's see what Ben at Outside the Boxscore has to offer, and hope that I keep kicking his butt!

Seriously, giving me blackboard material is probably not the best idea. I will give him credit for going 14-2 however I do doubt that will happen again. That is one of those miracle weeks that happen once in a "blue moon." I also do not agree with the language used "killing me." Many would assume that I had a terrible week, I went a respectable 9-7.

Anyway, here are the picks for this week. Let's see if OTB can close the gap.

SUN, SEP 20 TIME (ET) TV
Carolina at Atlanta 1:00 PM FOX
Minnesota at Detroit 1:00 PM FOX
Cincinnati at Green Bay 1:00 PM CBS
Houston at Tennessee 1:00 PM CBS
Oakland at Kansas City 1:00 PM CBS
New England at NY Jets 1:00 PM CBS
New Orleans at Philadelphia 1:00 PM FOX
St. Louis at Washington 1:00 PM FOX
Arizona at Jacksonville 1:00 PM FOX
Tampa Bay at Buffalo 4:05 PM FOX
Seattle at San Francisco 4:05 PM FOX
Pittsburgh at Chicago 4:15 PM CBS
Baltimore at San Diego 4:15 PM CBS
Cleveland at Denver 4:15 PM CBS
NY Giants at Dallas 8:20 PM NBC
MON, SEP 21 TIME (ET) TV
Indianapolis at Miami 8:30 PM

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The Great NFL Prediction Battle: Results After Week One

In case you missed it, the Great Sports Name Hall of Fame and Outside the Boxscore have begun an intense NFL prediction battle. Each blog picks the outcome of every game, we tally up the results, and then we post them here for you to see whose first and who's worst.

Results of Week 1:
GSNHOF (whose week 1 predictions can be found here): 14 correct, 2 incorrect
OTB (whose week 1 predictions can be found here): 9 correct, 7 incorrect

Season Standings:
GSNHOF 14-2
OTB 9-7 (5 GB)

GSNHOF takes a big lead after week one, getting only the Texans-Jets and Cardinals-49ers games incorrect. Let's see if OTB can close the gap in week 2, or if GSNHOF will run away with this one from the start. Predictions from each blog should be posted within the next few days (GSNHOF's are already up), so look for those soon. Otherwise, let us know what we should be battling for - we still have nothing on the line except pride for right now, and we've both already got enough of that.

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