Easily Add Major League Baseball Team Schedule to Your Calendar

Its time for Baseball with the first signs of summer peeking through.  Monday marks the beginning of baseball for most Major League baseball teams.  Keep up with you favorite team by importing the baseball schedule into your calendar program. 

With the help of MarkThisDate.com, you can import your team's schedule into Outlook, iCal, Google Calendar, Lotus Notes and even a PDF or Excel Document among others.  And if you think you team isn't popular enough to be included think again - even my beloved, but beleaguered Kansas City Royals are included!

 

Here's how to import the schedule of your favorite baseball team:

1. Start up a web browser and head to MarkThisDate.com

2. You can browse to the "sport" category or do as i did and use the search bar and type in your baseball teams name.   

 

3. Click on the hyperlink of your teams name

4. Make sure the dates are for the most current season.

5. When you're ready to add the schedule to your calendar, click on the "add to calendar" button

6. Select your time-zone from the drop-down list (they have them all)

7. Pick the calendar application that you want to import into your schedule into - in this case I selected Outlook 2007.  Depending on your calendar application your next steps will vary

• For Outlook 2007, a window will open up.  Click ok and then you'll see a window asking for you to confirm whether you really want to add the schedule to your calendar.

 

• For Google Calendar, the Google Calendar will open and you'll see these button selections

1. You'll now see the schedule added to your calendar application.

In Outlook 2007

In Google Calendar

 

That's all there is to it.  You now have your teams schedule with times and location on your calendar!  I can't resist - Play Ball!

MarkThisDate.com has many other calendars that are added to daily including holidays, city events, radio, television, sports and more.  It's a great, easy way to get a schedule or calendar updated to your favorite calendar application.

NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen TV Guide

 

We're down to the sweet sixteen in the NCAA Basketball Tournament.  Here's the guide to what games are on with start times.

Day	Time (eastern)	Team	Team
3/27 Thursday	7:10	West Virginia (7)	Xavier (2)
3/27 Thursday	7:27	Washington St. (4)	North Carolina (1)
3/27 Thursday	9:40	Western Kentucky (12)	UCLA (1)
3/27 Thursday	9:57	Lousiville (3)	Tennessee (2)
03/28 Friday	7:10	Davidson (10)	Wisconsin (3)
03/28 Friday	7:27	Stanford (3)	Texas (2)
03/28 Friday	9:40	Villanova (12)	Kansas (1)
03/28 Friday	9:57	Michigan St (5)	Memphis (1)

 

More March Madness:

March Madness TV Coverage Online & Broadcast

March Madness Bracketology - Play Online

March Madness Bracket - Printable Excel Spreadsheet Download

March Madness Map

March Madness TV Coverage Online & Broadcast

Wondering where you can catch a particular NCAA Tournament game this month?  The tournament officially starts today (except for the play-in game earlier this week) and there are plenty of options to watch the March Madness Games.

 

TV NETWORKS (Traditional):

Complete CBS/NCAA Tournament Schedule - Check out the CBS Sports Complete Schedule of the NCAA Tournament including times, locations and teams.

Most of us will be watching on our TV's.  Want to know which games will air in which markets?  Check out the HDSportsGuide's Coverage Maps for the CBS NCAA Tournament Coverage.

 

ONLINE:

CBS Online Broadcast - Watch all the games online at CBS Online.  But you better hurry up and sign up as it's a first come first serve sort of thing. via Mari Silbey at Connectedhome2Go

Sports Illustrated Team Highlights - Watch highlights from the tournament teams at Sports Illustrated’s FilmRoom via Mari's post on ZatzNotFunny

 

PLACESHIFTING: Or will you like me be Placeshifting (streaming content from home over internet) it from you home setup?

Slingbox (watch their latest commercial with a NCAA BB focus).  Slingbox

Joost - Joost has been testing live TV and hopefully have the kinks worked out now for the tournament.

SageTV Placeshifter - SageTV Placeshifter is my choice since I own SageTV

Orb - For a free option for placeshifting, check out Orb.

 

Other March Madness

March Madness Bracketology - Play Online

March Madness Bracket - Printable Excel Spreadsheet Download

March Madness Map

March Madness Map

I found a nice looking Map of the March Madness teams with their logo's and stats on size etc.  If you're a NCAA Basketball fanatic around tournament time, check this one out.

Bills 2008 NCAA Tournament Map

 

Other March Madness

March Madness Bracketology - Play Online

March Madness Bracket - Printable Excel Spreadsheet Download

March Madness Bracketology - Play Online

Are you a March Madness College Basketball Fan?  Struggling over how to fill out your picks for the NCAA tournament bracket?  Here's a couple (okay a lot) of resources for you to help make those final picks before the tournament starts.  There's just a few places on the web where you can find others talking about this stuff :)

Don't forget to pick up your free, excel bracket to download - with it you can select your picks from drop-down buttons for each pick.

• ESPN's Bracketology by Joe Lunardi
• ThisIsTech article on the Science of March Madness (good read)
• Gary Parrish at CBS Sports
• Jerry Palm at CSTV.com 
• Stewart Mandel at Sports Illustrated (SI)
• Brad Evans at Yahoo Sports
• The Bracket Project (BP)
• Breaking the Bracket at FOX Sports (FOX)
• Bracket Predictions (BrP)
• Beating the Experts (BtE)
• College Basketball - Rivals.com
• Ryan Fagan at Sporting News (SN)
• Drew Barnette at BracketExpress (BE)
• Bracketography (Graph)
• Bracketology 101 (B101)
• The Bracket Board (TBB)
• Mike On Sports

Make your picks and play online for free at the following places:

CBS Round-by-Round Bracket Challenge - Get to make your picks for each round separately.

CBS Bracket Challenge - Prizes to win, but large pool of players

Fox Sports Bracket Challenge - More prizes to win including a Plasma TV

Yahoo Sports Tourney Pick 'Em 08 - gotta have a perfect bracket to win this one, but $5M sounds like a nice prize.

 

Other March Madness

March Madness Bracket - Printable Excel Spreadsheet Download

March Madness Map

March Madness Bracket - Printable Excel Spreadsheet Download

Get your March Madness NCAA Basketball Tournament Brackets.  I have an excel spreadsheet (suitable for any Basketball Geek) that lets you select your picks from a drop-down and easily print & save your picks.  It's free, easy and is now pre-filled with all of the teams in the bracket.

NOTE:  2010 March  Madness Bracket Download is here



Get your download of the Excel March Madness 2008 Bracket here.



Alternatively, CNET blogger Dennis O'Reilly show you how to use Google Docs to manage your picks online via Lifehacker

If you just want a web-printable bracket with the teams filled in and not a spreadsheet, there's plenty of choices for you including the following:

• CBSSportsline Bracket
• PickMarchMadness Bracket

Other March Madness
March Madness Bracketology - Play Online
March Madness Map

March Madness TV Coverage Online & Broadcast

Wii Twilight Hack Detailed for Homebrew and Emulators

If you've been following the Nintendo Wii news you might already know that some inventive folks have come up with a way to allow homebrew games as well as emulators on the Nintendo Wii using a copy of Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess game. 

 

 

 

 

The Twilight hack isn't the easiest thing to do and I haven't tried it myself, but here's a video of a guy running a homebrew version of Tetris on his system after "installing" the Twilight Hack.

Pretty nifty - especially when you realize this opens up the Wii world to free emulator games and probably more.  Here's what has been released via the Hack so far:

• Proof of concept version of Linux for the Wii
• MP3 Player
• Super Nintendo emulator (Nintendo won't be too happy about this one)

 

There's a tutorial on getting the Wii homebrew working, but I probably won't be trying this.  It's a little too much work for me and I don't want to take the chance of breaking my Wii (that sounds bad now that I see it in words).

 

NINTENDO UPDATES TO 3.2 MENU - IT DOESN'T BREAK THE TWILIGHT HACK

Here's what my Wii screen said as I was doing the update last night:

Dear Customer,
Nintendo would like to inform you that a Wii Menu update is now available. Select the Update button on the right to update your Wii Console.
From this version of the Wii Menu onwards, Wii System Update will be displayed in the Disc Channel when you insert a Wii Disc that contains an update for the Wii Menu or for a Channel on the Wii Menu.
If the update contained on the Disc is not necessary for your Wii console, the Disc Channel will be displayed normally.
Note: if you have already updated your Wii console since 26 February 2008, you do not need to update again.
Nintendo

There was speculation that this updated would break the hack, but there has been multiple confirmations that it does not.  Looks like the update is to allow you to check Wi-Fi rankings of other people with Wii's - such as for the upcoming Mario Kart game.

via slashdot

Super Bowl Party Disaster - Lost TV Feed

When I host a Super Bowl party the things I usually worry about is having enough food, making sure my TV and audio are in working condition and there is enough seating.  What else could go wrong???

Picture this.  You have a group of people coming over to watch the most watched game of the year - the Super Bowl game on your home theater, projection screen system.  Everything is going well, the pre-game is on in the background as people are arriving and all of the sudden the channel goes black.  No picture, no sound nothing.  You frantically check all the other channels and they are all fine.  After almost an hour a message finally appears on the screen telling you they are experiencing technical difficulties.....

That's pretty much as close to a Super Bowl party disaster as you can get and it really happened to thousands of viewers in Northwest Arkansas and Southeastern Oklahoma Dish and DirecTV subscribers due to a software glitch at a local Arkansas TV Station KFTA. 

My Dad called me from his home to ask me if I was having problems in KC (which I wasn't.)  DirecTV put up a message for subscribers to turn to an alternative channel where they were broadcasting the channel from an alternate "local channel" for the game, but Dish Network subscribers like my Dad were out of luck.

The outage lasted until just before the end of the third quarter.  For those that waited that long, they did get to see the most exciting quarter of the game (the fourth of course), but there will be a LOT of unhappy people around those parts.  And Arkansas people weren't alone, looks like Nevada had some problems as well.

The local Arkansas channel had a blip about the outage in this story

College Football Bowl Guide

Its getting difficult to find any new television programming on your TV sets these days thanks to the writers strike, but starting today the College Football Bowl season officially begins with the San Diego Co. Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl on ESPN and runs through January 8th for the BCS Championship in New Orleans.  If you're a sports fan, check out my ultimate guide to the College Football Bowl Games.  It includes a complete listing of all of the games, times, locations and teams as well as a Google Maps Mashup showing the locations of each of the bowl games.

Check out the College Football Bowl Guide HERE

Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death Still a Problem?

I was at the UPS store shipping a few packages and realized there were two different people (unrelated) in the store with XBox360's on their way to be repaired.  I asked them about it and they both said their XBox360 quit working and they were experiencing the "Red Ring of Death."  Then the UPS guy behind the desk said there had already been four others today shipping their 360's with the same problem.

This surprised me because I thought Microsoft had worked out those issues.  For those of you who haven't heard of the Red Ring of Death, you can read this wiki article.  It says the red lights on the indicator "ring" represent "general hardware failure" and is known by gamers as the infamous "Red Ring of Death."

Anyone else seen this problem on their XBox 360?  Is it only with the older units? 

College Football Bowl Geek - Bowl Schedule, Teams and Google Map Mashup

Time for the weekend again and for some of us, our attention turns to college football.  Are you a sports fan?  Possibly a football fan interested in college football?  If so, you'll undoubtedly be watching the next few weeks as the top college football teams fight over who gets to play in a college football bowl game and which bowl games your team/s get to play in. 

UPDATE:  I'VE PUT THE CONFIRMED BOWL LOCATIONS AND TEAMS ON THE SCHEDULE BELOW AS WELL AS THE MAP MASHUP.

 

I've gathered as much information as possible on this and bring you the facts you need to know for the 2007-2008 college football bowls.  How does the BCS system work?  What teams have a chance to play in the bowls?  When are the games?  Where are the games? - check out the bowl game google map I created.

NCAA COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL MAP

Below is a college football bowl map I created with pinpoints for all of the bowl locations along with detailed information about each location, the teams that will play there (I'll update that once teams are officially selected) and the date & times for each game.  Double click on the map to see more information and to zoom in to a certain location.

View Larger Map

Here's a screen-shot of the Orange Bowl Stadium on the College Football Bowl Map:

 

NCAA COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL SCHEDULE

For a quick listing of all of the bowl games check out the bowl schedule below.  It is in reverse chronological order with the BCS championship game listed at top.  I'll be filling in the teams once they are selected.

Game	Date & Time (Eastern)	Location	Matchup	Teams	TV
BCS National Championship	01/08/08 8 pm	New Orleans, LA	BCS #1 vs. BCS #2	Ohio State vs. LSU	FOX
GMAC Bowl	01/06/08 8 pm	Mobile, AL	C-USA vs. MAC	Bowling Green vs. Tulsa	ESPN
International Bowl	01/06/08 8 pm	Toronto, Canada	Big East / Notre Dame vs. MAC	Rutgers vs. Ball State	ESPN2
FedEx Orange	01/03/08 8 pm	Miami, FL	BCS vs. BCS	Virginia Tech vs. Kansas :(	FOX
Tostitos Fiesta	01/02/08 8 pm	Glendale, AZ	BCS vs. BCS	Oklahoma vs. West Virginia	FOX
Allstate Sugar	01/01/08 8:30 pm	New Orleans, LA	BCS vs. BCS	Hawaii vs. Georgia	FOX
Rose presented by Citi	01/01/08 4:30 pm	Pasadena, CA	BCS vs. BCS	Southern Cal vs. Illinois	ABC
Capital One	01/01/08 1 pm	Orlando, FL	Big Ten vs. SEC	Michigan vs. Florida	ABC
Gator	01/01/08 1 pm	Jacksonville, FL	ACC vs. Big 12 / Big East / Notre Dame	Texas Tech vs. Virginia	CBS
AT&T Cotton	01/01/08 11:30 am	Dallas, TX	Big 12 vs. SEC	Missouri vs. Arkansas	FOX
Outback	01/01/08 11 am	Tampa, FL.	Big Ten vs. SEC	Wisconsin vs.	ESPN
Insight	12/31/07 TBA	Tempe, AZ	Big Ten vs. Big 12	Wisconsin vs. Tennessee	NFL
Chick-fil-A	12/31/07 7:30 pm	Atlanta, GA	ACC vs. SEC	Indiana vs. Oklahoma State	ESPN
Gaylord Hotels Music City	12/31/07 4 pm	Nashville, TN	ACC vs. SEC	Kentucky vs. Florida State	ESPN
Humanitarian	12/31/07 2 pm	Boise, ID	ACC vs. WAC	Fresno State vs. Georgia Tech	ESPN2
Sun	12/31/07 2 pm	El Paso, TX	Big 12 / Big East / Notre Dame vs. Pac-10	Oregon vs. South Florida	CBS
Bell Helicopter Armed Forces	12/31/07 12:30 pm	Fort Worth, TX	Mountain West vs. Pac-10	California vs. Air Force	ESPN
Petro Sun Independence	12/30/07 8 pm	Shreveport, LA	Big 12 vs. SEC	Colorado vs. Alabama	ESPN
Alamo	12/29/07 8 pm	San Antonio, TX	Big Ten vs. Big 12	Penn State vs. Texas A&M	ESPN
AutoZone Liberty	12/29/07 4:30 pm	Memphis, TN	C-USA vs. SEC	Central Florida vs. Mississippi State	ESPN
Meineke Car Care	12/29/07 1 pm	Charlotte, NC	ACC vs. Big East	Wake Forest vs. Connecticut	ESPN
Emerald	12/28/07 8:30 pm	San Francisco, CA	ACC vs. Pac-10	Maryland vs. Oregon State	ESPN
Texas	12/28/07 8 pm	Houston, TX	Big 12 vs. C-USA	Texas Christian vs. Houston	NFL
Champs Sports	12/28/07 5 pm	Orlando, FL	ACC vs. Big Ten	Boston College vs. Michigan State	ESPN
Pacific Life Holiday	12/27/07 8 pm	San Diego, CA	Big 12 vs. Pac-10	Arizona State vs. Texas	ESPN
Motor City	12/26/07 7:30 pm	Detroit, MI	Big Ten vs. MAC	Central Michigan vs. Purdue	ESPN
Sheraton Hawaii	12/23/07 8 pm	Honolulu, HA	C-USA vs. WAC	Boise State vs. East Carolina	ESPN
Pioneer PureVision Las Vegas	12/22/07 8 pm	Las Vegas, NV	Mountain West vs. Pac-10	UCLA vs. BYU	ESPN
New Mexico	12/22/07 4:30 pm	Albuquerque, NM	Mountain West vs. WAC	Nevada vs. New Mexico	ESPN
PapaJohn's.com	12/22/07 1 pm	Birmingham, AL	Big East vs. C-USA	Cincinnati vs. Southern Miss	ESPN2
R&L Carriers New Orleans	12/21/07 8 pm	New Orleans, LA	Sun Belt Champ vs. C-USA	Florida Atlantic vs. Memphis	ESPN2
San Diego Co. Credit Union Poinsettia	12/20/07 9 pm	San Diego, CA	Mountain West vs. Navy / At-Large	Utah vs. Navy	ESPN

THE BCS BOWLS:

The top five bowl games are the BCS bowl games play played the first week of January:

Rose Bowl - Big Ten conference champion vs. Pac 10 conference champion

Sugar Bowl - SEC conference champion vs. At Large Team

Fiesta Bowl - Big 12 conference champion vs. At Large Team

Orange Bowl - ACC conference champion vs. At Large Team

The BCS National Championship Game - pits the top 2 teams in the BCS rankings

Beyond the top two teams, the other eight teams come from a pool of league champions from the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big East, Big 12, Big Ten, Southeastern Conference and Pac-10, plus four at-large selections. The at-large teams must have nine wins and be ranked no lower than No. 14 in the final BCS standings.

No more than two teams from the same conference can make a BCS bowl, and if the No. 3 BCS team is a member of an automatic qualifying conference but didn’t win its conference, it must be chosen for a BCS bowl.

If the No. 1 team in the BCS title game is the champion of its conference, then that conference’s BCS bowl partner chooses first from the at-large pool, followed by the BCS bowl associated with the conference of the No. 2 team in the title game. The selection order for the rest of the bowls goes Orange, Fiesta and Sugar.

HOW DOES BCS FORMULA WORK?

The BCS formula has 3 rankings added together and averaged: the Harris Poll & USA Today coaches poll and the computer rankings.  The computer rankings (six separate rankings withthe best and worst of those computer rankings being dropped from the calculation) do not consider the margin of victory and in most cases where the games are played.

For more Tools for the College Football Geek Check out This Post

 

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Wii Consoles On Sale at Amazon Halloween Day

Still don't have a Nintendo Wii Game Console???

Seems like most of you likely already have a Wii Game console by now. If not, Amazon will be selling an unspecified number of Wii game consoles tomorrow, Wednesday, October 31st beginning at noon CST (1 pm EDT).

Check Amazon for a Nintendo Wii Console HERE

via NintendoWiiFanboy

If that doesn't work out for you try the how-to in the second half of this post.

Weekend Fun: Play Scrabble On the Web or on Facebook

Are you a Scrabble™ Word Game Fan?  Can't find a partner to play Scrabble™ against?  Look no further than an online game of Scrabulous where you can get your Scrabble™ Fix online.

Scrabulous doesn't seem to have the blessing (read license) of Hasbro or Mattel so I'm not sure how the trademark owners might feel about the Scrabulous application, but for now it's a great, free website to play your favorite Scrabble™ game when you don't have a willing partner to play against.  At Scrabulous, you can play against the computer or find others to play against in the member rooms (requires registration).  They also offer a "play via e-mail" version, a Solitaire Scrabble™ version and a faster game of Blitz Scrabulous.

There is an online version that was pulling in a few thousand users - less than the developers had hoped so how did they increase exposure?  They ported Scrabulous to Facebook.  Scrabulous has now grown to approximately 950,000 players!

The screen-shot below is of the standard version of Scrabulous.  In this version you play against others across the net.

  

This is a single-player version of Scrabulous.  It wasn't as much fun as the standard multi-player version, but if you're just wanting to hone your word skills its not a bad game either.

 

Scrabulous also has a dictionary page that allows you to cheat or confirm words you might want to use while playing Scrabble.

 

Another place for some online Scrabble™ is yahoo's Literati.  Literati is an officially licensed version, but involves a download.  Literati has a free trial download, but for the full version you'll have to fork over $20.

For the Facebook Scrabulous application CLICK HERE

For the Internet (non-facebook) version CLICK HERE

 

Enjoy your game of Scrabble

I found Scrabulous from an article in last weeks Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition

 

Other Game-Related Posts:

Flickr Photo Slider Game

Geography Tetris

Games that Flickr Plays: 12 Photo-Related Games That Use Flickr

 

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Weekend Project: Find Worthy Nintendo Wii Games

This past Summer I scoured the internet for ways to find a Wii Console.  They were never available in my city when I looked for them.  In the end, I found them using a little trick I discovered using a back door website for Gamestop - I'll get to that later.  Anyway, here I am many months later with zero games purchased.  That's right, all I have for games are the standard Wii Sports that comes with the console.  Your mission this weekend and early next week is to help me find the best and most worthy Wii games you think I should purchase. 

Yes Wii Sports is an excellent package of games that we actually still enjoy.  Regardless, I desperately need to justify my Wii purchase and to do that I need some good games that make use of the motion sensing Wiimotes.

WII GAMES ON MY PURCHASE LIST

Here's my initial list.  I haven't tried any of them so I'm looking for your advice if you have any experience with them.  Also, please give me some recommendations in the comments below of games you'd add to the list.

• Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
• WarioWare: Smooth Moves
• Super Paper Mario
• Rayman Raving Rabbids
• Madden NFL 07

Help!  My list is too short and I need some advice.  If you have any recommendations - or games I should stay away from let me know.

 

HOW TO FIND A WII IN STOCK IN YOUR AREA

Back to that backdoor site for finding a Wii console at Gamestop.  I'm guessing most of you are finding Wii Consoles easier now, but if not here's how I found mine:

1. Enter the following hyperlink into your web browser - LINK

2. You should see a page like this one (screen-shot of my area)

You can see that even today, there are none in stock at Gamestops near me.  (it often does say more on the way so don't get too excited about that)

3. Now in your browser link, change the zip=64158 to your local zip code and hit ENTER

4. It should bring up a list of all the stores in your area ranked by closest to that zip code.  The second column will show if that store has any units in stock.

5. If you really want one and it shows a unit in stock.  Call the store - don't wait as they sell fast.  If they say there is one in stock head over there now - as I said the sell fast so go get one if you want one.

 

There you have it.  A call for some help from my readers on recommended Wii Games and a tip from me on how to find a Wii Console.  Happy Gaming and Have a Great Weekend!

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Nyko Wii Wireless Sensor Bar On Sale for $9.00

If you own a Nintendo Wii Console and would like to place your Wii console somewhere away from the TV, then you might be interested in this deal from Amazon.com

Amazon has a one-day deal for the sensor bar at $8.99 & free shipping (usual price is $19.99) today.

I did a review of this wireless sensor bar a while back and recommend it for those of you who need one.

 Get Your Nyko Wireless Sensor Bar at Amazon.com

The College Football Geek - Tools For The Fans

In honor of the upcoming College Football Weekend I'm bringing you a compilation of great College Football Tools for the Techie Fans - you know like me.  These are all useful and pretty cool as well.  I plan to be in attendance when Missouri beats Nebraska this weekend (I hope at least...) and writing this post is good therapy for me as I try to hold back my excitement.  If you're a LSU, USC, California, Ohio State, Kansas State, Wisconsin, South Florida, Boston College, Florida, Oklahoma

or any other College Football Fan this is the post for you.

College Football Recruiting Map

First up is the College Football Recruiting Map which showcases college football recruits by town and University.  Select a State, University or College Football Conference by using the selectors in the bottom left panel. Blue dots represent the players towns (hometown, prep school town, or community college town), while red dots represent the Universities selected. You can switch between towns and universities using the button selector in the top right panel. If you would like to view players within a 100 mile radius, enter the desired zip code in the zip code box in the bottom left panel.

This is an example using my personal favorite, the Missouri Tigers.  The map flags all cities from which 2007 Missouri Tigers College Football Recruits hometowns are located.

Check out the College Football Recruiting Map HERE

 

MAPGAMEDAY

Heading to a College Game and want to get the details of the stadium and surrounding amenities?  There's no better place then MapGameDay.com.  Here you'll be able to find any Div1 College, see a Google Map of the stadium and surrounding area and search for hotels, restaurants and other amenities in the area.

Check out MapGameDay.com

 

COLLEGE FIGHT SONG DATABASE

For a place to refresh your memory of your schools fight songs there is only one place you need to go.  FightMusic.com has a very comprehensive database with all of the top schools fight songs as well as many other school songs you might want to get a refresher on and hear that schools band play the song.

Check Out FightMusic.com

COLLEGE FIGHT SONG LYRICS

You can look up the lyrics to those College Fight Songs at THIS SITE

 

GOOGLE MAPS OVERLAY OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL STADIUMS

You can check out the Google Mapplet from mapgameday.com.  The new Google Mapplet lets you overlay College Football Stadiums over your travels on Google's My Maps. Headed on Vacation. Enter your itinerary into Google's Maps, then the mapplet to see stadiums close to your trip.

MapGameDay's Google Maplet overlay of DivI College Football Stadiums

 

COLLEGE FOOTBALL HELMET MAP

How about a map with The Team's Helmets marking their stadium.  Check it out below

To see the College Football Map in full-screen, CLICK HERE

 

COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE MAKER

Next is a tool that lets you create your own College Football Schedule - display the football schedule customized by team, conference, time-zone and week.

Read more about the College Schedule Maker HERE

 

COLLEGE FOOTBAL NEWS AGGREGATOR

Last up is a Yahoo Pipe that aggregates ESPN, Fox, CBS and CNN RSS feeds for College Football and sorts by the most recent stories

Check out the College Football News Aggregator HERE

 

COLLEGE FOOTBALL BLOGS AND SITES TO CHECK OUT

Fanblogs.com - Covers all major college football teams

College Football Blog - Another good blog with coverage of all the Div 1 teams

College Football Resource - All things college football

In The Bleachers - Another excellent college football blog

Every Day Should Be a Saturday - Can't not like this one.  Great content and great name!

That should do it for now.  Now go cheer for your team!  And if you don't have a team, cheer for the Missouri Tigers vs. Nebraska on ESPN Saturday Night!!!

If you know of any I'm missing here, be sure to let me know in the comments.

 

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Get a Free Cushion Remote Jacket for Your Wii Remote

Do You own a Nintendo Wii Game Machine?  Nintendo is giving away free Wii Remote Jackets for anyone who owns a wii remote.  Why you might ask?  Well I'm thinking it has something to do with lawyers worrying about people being still not attaching the wrist strap to their arm and not holding the remote securely in their hand and then having it slip out of hand into tv, friend dog etc. and then causing a lawsuit.  Silly?  Yes.  Still, I'll be ordering one for each remote I own just because.... well because it's free and hey, my WiiMote probably needs a jacket for the winter.

Head over to Nintendo's site to order your Free Remote Jacket

 

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You Can Find a Wii Console IN STOCK This Weekend

 

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Photo Slider Game for Flickr

Just last week I highlighted a bunch of great games using flickr, a photo sharing site.  Well today I bring you another neat flickr game - this one is a photo slider game.  The game created by noviKorisnik is simple yet fun and works by taking any photo on flickr and then scrambling the photo into multiple puzzle pieces (# of pieces depends on the dimensions of the photo.)  An extra box is left blank and you "slide" the pieces around to unscramble the photo.

Here's what you need to install the game:

• You will first need the Firefox web browser which I recommend over Internet Explorer anyway. 
• You'll also need to install the Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox. 
• Once you have both of those installed, install the Flickr Photo Puzzle Game Script Here.

Now that the greasemonkey script is installed, head over to any photo page on flickr and at the top right of the photo you should see %puzzle.  Click on %puzzle and the game will begin.  To stop the game, use your mouse to click anywhere outside the game area of the puzzle.

Here's a screencast video demo of the game in action:

As you can see, I'm not that great at solving puzzles (they do require patience you know) so I didn't solve the one in the video above, but I have solved a few using this game and its fun - great timewaster!

Give it a try HERE

For more flickr games click here

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