Up, Down, Left, Right: Perspectives of Jim Otto Are Always Good
Published on: 21st February, 2010
How many people can say that their name is a representation of their life in some way? Let’s look at Jim Otto’s last name: OTTO. If you read his name from left to right, it spells OTTO. It is a palindrome so if you read it from right to left it ...Oakland Raiders: Ain’t No Way, A Valentine’s Day Greeting
Published on: 14th February, 2010
A Pep Talk I am dedicating this song to the fans, friends and mates of the Oakland Raiders. Ain't No Way It's Valentine's Day. So as you look at your beloved, tell your beloved that you know that love is as strong as death. Love can wake you up. Love can make you play professional football to ...Oakland Raiders: Fee, Fie, Fo, Fum, We Really Should Have Won
Published on: 8th January, 2010
"Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman, Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread." The Baltimore Ravens are named for the poet Edgar Allen Poe who was born in America and had his early education in England. Poe's poem, The Raven, ...Oakland Raiders: From Whence We’ve Come
Published on: 7th January, 2010
A Historical Graph of Oakland Raiders' History is worth a thousand words. During the first of the year, many of us reflect on our past experiences, and we made some assessments about our progress over the year, and over a decade. Since the 2009 season for the Oakland Raiders had its ...Oakland Raiders 2003-2009: Not Perfect, but “in Progress”
Published on: 3rd January, 2010
As a teacher of a reasonably new curricular effort called Development Mathematics, students who failed to demonstrate proficiency were sometimes given a grade "IP" which stands for "In Progress." Applying this idea to the Oakland Raiders would give us a little more discernment of the performance behavior of our beloved team. ...Oakland Raiders’ Strength Made Strong in Weakness
Published on: 2nd January, 2010
How can anyone anticipate a strong finish in the performance of the Oakland Raiders in 2009? I can, and I have data on which to base my anticipated outcome between the Oakland Raiders and the Baltimore Ravens. Why wouldn't a team that is 36 years older than its opponent, have a ...Do the Oakland Raiders “See” Their Gaps, Breaks, and Oscillations?
Published on: 1st January, 2010
The Content One of my B/R associates wrote an article which mentions the need for continuity. The fact that he has identified the need for continuity points to the reality of the existence of "discontinuities" in the performance of the Oakland Raiders. A definition of continuity, from a mathematical standpoint, can help ...Oakland Raiders: Tic-Tac-Toe, Get Three in a Row
Published on: 31st December, 2009
It's been a good year for those of us who needed to be humbled. Join me because I and others wrote some articles spouting out "high hopes" for the 2009 season, and it's been a year with a few highs and several lows. Like a child who wants to get three ...Sebastian Janikowski Kicks the Oakland Raiders To Victories
Published on: 30th December, 2009
While struggling to understand a subject called topology, I encountered the theorems of a mathematician from Poland. His name was Kazimierz Kuratowski . His theorem says, "Every partially ordered set in which every chain (i.e. totally ordered subset ) has an upper bound contains at least one maximal element ." Well, the condition ...Oakland Raiders: In and Out, Up and Down Analysis
Published on: 26th December, 2009
Here we go again, looking in and out, up and down, through the data to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the Oakland Raiders and our opponent, the Cleveland Browns. The second chart shows the teams to be almost coincident in performance, in the categories of wins, losses, ties, and in ...Featured Sponsors
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