by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 23, 2022 | News, Recaps
Mississippi Magazine rarely posts Week 9 “Scores and Analysis” because A) everyone is looking forward to Week 10 already and B) it takes extra time to lay-out brackets for our District preview. But it’s very hard to “C” a winning play...
by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 16, 2022 | News, Recaps
Cardinal Ritter 26, Hillsboro 13 The best lawyer shows are the ones in which the good-guy (or good-lady) lawyer doesn’t win every case. There’s that wonderful “Columbo” episode, for instance, in which the murderer is acquitted by a jury, and...
by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 10, 2022 | News, Recaps
St. Vincent 21, St. Pius 6 It’s hard for TGG to put his criticism of SPX coach Dan Oliver’s strategy in Week 7 down on bits-and-bytes. Oliver made a pre-game decision that cast Friday night’s Homecoming Game in a very different mold than Mississippi...
by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 3, 2022 | News, Previews, Recaps
Tri-City readers of Mississippi Magazine are still wrung-out from the “5-0-1” Crystal City Hornets’ episode in Week 6, and our local pigskin bloggers (ahem) might be feeling the hangover too. In addition, The Geek knows from experience that...
by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 2, 2022 | News, Recaps
The philosopher Scott Adams performed an informal experiment to show that “wishful thinking” applies even when we aren’t awake, alert, or in-fact wishing for anything particular. Adams observed 100s of people who said they believed in reincarnation...
by The Gridiron Geek | Sep 25, 2022 | News, Recaps
Hillsboro 58, Festus 21 The ’22 Hillsboro Hawks look every bit like a Show-Me Bowl contender to TGG. No, we’re not saying that because Hillsboro clobbered the blog’s “home team.” Festus, after a hideous 2-3 start, can’t well claim...
