Sports by the numbers: 11/29/10

Posted by A. Isaac on November 29th, 2010 at 9:14 am

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Twice in Peyton Manning’s career he has had back-to-back three interception games. The first time was in his rookie year, so, that was more than understandable. But yesterday, one week after having thrown three INTs against the Patriots, Manning threw four against the Chargers. We’re certainly not saying Manning is past his prime, but the pressure of having to be “Mr. Everything” for the Colts is starting to wear on him.

Things aren’t going too well for the Broncos the last few days. First, they had to fire an employee for filming another team’s walk-through and now they find themselves 3-8 for the first time in 20 years. Josh McDaniels may only be in his second season with the organization, but with the way things are going, he might find himself without a job two months from now.

The good news is that the Miami Heat still have a chance to win 70 games. The bad news is that they’ll have to go 61-4 the rest of the season to accomplish it. Even the most ardent Heat hater would have never envisioned the team barely over .500 this far into the season. To make things worse, LeBron James seems extremely agitated and even deliberately bumped head coach Erik Spoelstra during a timeout. He apparently took his sour attitude to South Beach too.

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For some reason or other, the amount of accidental falls at sporting events seems to have gone up exponentially. Just last week, a young toddler was killed when he fell 30 feet from a Staples Center luxury suite. And yesterday, a 23-year old man was killed when he fell 40-50 feet from Soldier Field to a rooftop outside the stadium.

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IU football is arguably the worst athletic team in the Big Ten and one of the worst football programs in the country. But even they have standards in regards to mediocrity. Bill Lynch, who has only been the head coach for four seasons was let go by the school yesterday. Hoosiers football has been more than terrible recently, winning three Big Ten games under his watch and having an overall 19-30 record.

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A. Isaac A. Isaac is the Senior Editor of Guyism.com. You may have seen him before on The World of Isaac or at a local beach showing off his man boobs. His claims to fame include eating 5 cheeseburgers in one minute, having a threesome with two Victoria Secret models, and being a world-class table tennis player. Unfortunately, the validity of some of those claims is under dispute.