HC Preview Guides

The Hemcher Cup XXXI Preview Guide   Welcome back to yet another season of The Hemcher Cup!  This upcoming contest is very likely to be one of the most unpredictable one’s in the three decades long history of the Hemcher Cup.  With the explosion of NIL, the transfer portal, and conference realignment, the landscape of … Read More

The Hemcher Cup XXX Preview Guide  “Si vis poculum, para bellum”   (“if you want the cup, prepare for war”)     Normally the opening paragraph of the preview guide is a mash up between the Hemcher Cup  and a classic scene from one of the twelve movies that the editor of this guide has seen … Read More

After a three-year hiatus, we are proud to bring back to you the greatest Hemcher Cup Preview Guide in the world.  Though it is also the only Hemcher Cup Preview Guide in the world, is irrelevant to the aforementioned claim.  Where have we been?  Where did we go?  Why didn’t we publish for the last … Read More

The Hemcher Cup XXVI Preview Guide THE CUP-FATHER                 My credit good enough to buy you out? Buy me out? Your franchise. The league. The Lampazzi franchise wants to buy you out. The Lampazzi family wants to buy me out? No, I buy you out, you don’t buy … Read More

“Fast Times at Hemcher Cup High”                 “Hello everybody!  I’m Stu Nahan, and I’d like you to meet this young man. His name, Chris Zucker.   And Chris, congratulations to you. Things looked kind of rough out there in the 2016 Hemcher Cup Tournament. Well, I’ll tell you Stu, … Read More

The Hemcher Cup XXIV Preview Guide   The Un-Cuppables   …you said you wanted to get a Cup. Do you really wanna get a Cup? You see what I’m saying is, what are you prepared to do? Anything within the bylaws of the league. And *then* what are you prepared to do? If you open … Read More

The Hemcher Cup XXIII – Preview Guide “Good Will Cupping” “….. Are we gonna have a problem here?   “No, no, no, no! There’s no problem here. I was just hoping you might give me some insight into the theory of picking anyone in the 1st round that isn’t on a #1 or #2 seed. … Read More

The 2014 Hemcher Cup XXII Preview Guide A FEW GOOD CUPS For those that don’t remember, the theme of last year’s Hemcher Cup preview guide was the clear separation of the league into two distinct factions, the “haves” and the “have nots”.   This theme was once again clearly demonstrated by the results of last year’s … Read More

The 2013 Hemcher Cup XXI Preview Guide As we are just days away from the start of Hemcher Cup XXI, it seems hard to believe that we are moving into our third decade.  Though it seems like this contest was started just yesterday, here are a few things that happened back in 1992 – 1993 … Read More

The annual preview guide for The Hemcher Cup is now available. The HCPG has correctly predicted the champion for the past two years.