Off to a good start in the first two weeks, we move forward to the third week of college football for our favorite teams… Let’s take a look at how Darin Tietgen did in his Week 3 picks. University of Texas Prediction: 20-24 / Actual: 49-20 Here’s where I don’t mind being wrong. This is [...]
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Study Breaks College Football Predictions – How’d We Do, Week 2?
September 15, 2011 – 6:41 pm
Well Study Breakers, here we are on the cusp of the third week of the college football season. It’s already been an exciting two weeks worth of action. Let’s take a peek back at Week 2 to see how our prognosticator extraordinaire, Darin Tietgen, fared in his picking of games. Texas Tech was on bye [...]
College Football Predictions – A Look Back
September 10, 2011 – 1:49 pm
Let’s take a quick peek at how we did picking games for the kickoff weekend. No, we didn’t use a dartboard. University of Texas Prediction – 45-13 Actual – 34-9 Only off by 15 total points! Knew the Longhorn offense would put some points up and figured Rice would have trouble scoring against Manny Diaz’s [...]
Early Fantasy Football Rankings
July 14, 2011 – 2:50 am
With the NFL lockout seemingly coming to a close (finally), it’s time to start thinking about your fantasy football draft. If you have missed any of the past three issues of Study Breaks Magazine, here’s a way to catch up… our QB, RB and WR rankings, once again brought to you by Who2Start.com: QBS Aaron [...]
Study Breaks’ SEC All-Conference Teams
July 7, 2011 – 12:59 pm
With Study Breaks now at the University of Georgia, and COMING SOON to Auburn University as well as the University of South Carolina, we are proud to announce our All-Conference Offense and Defense. You know the drill. SEC Preseason All-Conference Offense – Darin Tietgen QB: Stephen Garcia (South Carolina) RB: Trent Richardson (Alabama) RB: Marcus [...]
Study Breaks’ Big-12 All-Conference Football Teams
June 30, 2011 – 6:17 pm
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Study Breaks Magazine’s Big-12 and SEC All-Conference Teams. Football bloggers Kyle Holmes and Zach Hannigan have joined Study Breaks Sports Editor Darin Tietgen in naming their teams for the preseason. So, without further ado: Big-12 Preseason All-Offense (Darin Tietgen) QB: Landry Jones (Oklahoma) RB: Cyrus Gray (Texas A&M) RB: [...]
Primo Palazzone!
June 29, 2011 – 9:22 pm
The ace of the Bulldog staff was named to the SEC All-Conference tournament team after guiding the team to a third-place finish. The Marietta native pitched 4.1 innings and got the win over the then third-ranked Florida Gators. Overall, Palazzone had a 10-4 record this season with a solid 3.20 ERA. He only gave up [...]
A Couple of Texas State News Bits
June 24, 2011 – 9:40 pm
The Texas State women’s basketball program has a new leader: Zenarae Antoine. Antoine becomes the program’s eighth head coach. She has been with several Division I programs, including Louisville, Ohio State and most recently, Arkansas. As an assistant, the Razorbacks were 22-12 last season. Leading the way for the future of Texas State football could [...]
First Fantasy Football Draft of the Year
June 17, 2011 – 10:31 pm
With the labor talks between ownership and players in the NFL looking better by the day, I decided to join one of MyFantasyLeague.com’s “Facebook Friends Leagues”. It’s a league of 12 Facebook friends of the website which I (and many, many others) prefer in terms of league hosting. I don’t work for MFL, so this [...]
Terrell Pryor and the Demise of Sports as We Once Knew It…
June 15, 2011 – 3:29 am
I heard on the radio today that Terrell Pryor signed with Drew Rosenhaus, the super agent who gets folks like Terrell Owens and Chad Ochocinco far more than they’re worth. This news got me thinking about the state of sports right now. Basically it’s a complete joke. You have billionaire NFL owners locking out millionaire [...]
