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Saturday, August 30, 2008

College Football's Back!

So here are Kyle's Preseason Predictions:

Big Ten Champion: Wisconsin #2 Illinois #3 Michigan #4 Ohio State

Pac Ten Champion: USC

Big East Champion: Louisville

ACC Coastal: UNC
ACC Atlantic: Clemson
ACC Champion: Clemson

Big 12 North: Nebraska
Big 12 South: Texas
Big 12 Champion: Texas

SEC East: Florida
SEC West: Alabama
SEC Champion: Florida

Conf. USA East: East Carolina
Conf. USA West: Rice
Conf. USA Champion: East Carolina

Mid Amer. East: Bowling Green
Mid Amer. West: Western Michigan
Mid Amer. Champion: Western Michigan (Definitely possible..............and local allegiance)

Mountain West Champion: BYU

Sun Belt Campion: Troy

WAC Champion: Boise State

Top 5 BCS predictions:

5 Clemson

4 Wisconsin

3 USC

AND THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME:

#1 Florida vs #2 Texas

Texas 31
Florida 28

THE 2008 NATIONAL CHAMPION: TEXAS LONGHORNS

MICHIGAN: 9-3

Michigan 24 - Ranked: 12
Ohio State 17 - Unranked: Falling out after losing to Illinois and Michigan

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Monopoly AHH Check this out


Monopoly is an all-American game centered around the American desire to get more and more through a bigger and bigger business. I enjoy this game and I must say I am pretty good and, trust me, I will mortgage everything to get boardwalk. In real life this would not be an option, I will just have to wait a few more years to purchase a real-life boardwalk. Some people call it greed, some call it business but the game is clearly American and proves that down-deep people really want there there business to be like Walmart.

But how about Bibleopoly. This is a game that takes the general principal of Monopoly and incorporates the building of a church in a biblical city. With Jerusalem taking the ever so prestigious boardwalk spot. There is a key difference though. While Monopoly is how about taking advantage of your competitors and, if your playing me, bankrupting them, Bibleopoly requires that you help and work with your opponents. If you don't do this you will not successfully build the church.

The game of Monopoly is all about greed and selfishness, Bibleopoly is all about teamwork and cooperation. In real life business is not like Monopoly, and competitors walk a fine line between winning over a consumer and crossing that line that will push the consumers to the other guy. Real business may not work like bibleopoly but there is a lot more respect and benevolance than in Monopoly. Walmart demonstrates this generously regularly as the top giving corporation in the U.S. in 2006. Even the largest companies, sometimes considered monopolies, need to be generous and unmonopolized.

This post definitely went a different direction than originally intended so back to the originally intended idea. Bibleopoly is a very unique monopoly game that takes an already fun game and creates another fun and original game. Enjoy!