Head 2 Head World Series

Well it looks like it is going to be San Fransisco and San Fransisco advancing to the Inglewood quarter finals, as both the Pacificans and Giants cruised to easy victories.

The Pacificans attack was lead by Alex Rodriguez early and often, and somebody must have told Kid Wonderful that these Yankee games are meaningless, because he simply teed off. It was a great run by the Cal Blaze, but in the end Grady Sizemore and company simply came up short.

No surprises in the first round of England South, as, just for once, the 3rd & 4th seeded teams both won their matchups - one comfortably; the other still in doubt until the final day...

4 teams move on, 2 of course that had been waiting to continue the road to the Illinois championship of the H2HWS,

Damn the D-Backs.

Whilst it is possibly slightly disingenuous to say that a week long fantasy match-up - and at this time of year, my fantasy season - could hinge on a single event, the decision of Arizona to scratch the Big Unit from his start on Sunday evening almost certainly has cost the Leicester Tigers a place in the semis.

Hey look guys.

Canada!

The final week's action and standings in the USA West league:

Ohio, Pennsylvania week 22 scores and standings

Here are the scores and standings for California North week 22

Well I suppose I should get a little something up here. :)

Being a holiday weekend and all, I haven't had a chance to replace my high end keyboard yet, and today happens to be my sons birthday, so I can't see it happening today either. Surprisingly, my fingers are somewhat evolving to this GE keyboard. Yes i said GE.

Well the drama is over and the teams still playing in the upper tier playoffs are known and,

the slate is wiped clean and once again it is anybody's title to win (as long as you're in, that is)

So with no further ado, the Final 2009 H2HWS Illinois Regular Season Standings;

16 teams entered. 6 remain standing. 3 of them finished tied for 2nd place, separated only by the final week tiebreaker. The England South Championship is anyone's to win...

The scores are in, the matchups calculated and the battle for the playoffs in the UK North has come to a close. Typically several of the matchs this week were close affairs though Norwich No recorded an 8-1 victory over Sheffield which was enough to take them to the top of the standings and Darlington DIce-K's had a 9-2 win over Earlham which was enough to move them from seventh to fifth and a playoff space.

Here are the overall standings with 14 leagues reporting in.

just one week to go.

Well, the Bandits from Bashing put a few nails in the coffins of the other Illinoisians when they defeated the immigrants from Minnesota, meanwhile Pale Hose took advantage and claiming the 6th spot if only for one week by defeating Money. The rest of the top 6 stayed in place as they knocked each other off.

I'm probably having an Andy Rooney moment as I'm being nitpicky about nothing but I found last night's closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics to be a downer. It's difficult to try and upstage the emphatic yet intricate pageantry of the opening ceremony and it would be an injustice to compare the two, but it's worth noting that the ending was a surprisingly anti-climactic one. If you caught the tail end of the show, you would've seen world-class tenor Placido Domingo sing a duet with a famous Chinese soprano singer sing a little ditty dubbed with a rather corny (yet risque) title called "The Flame of Love".