Monthly Archives: March 2009
Slow news day
It’s just a feeling I have, but it’s articles like this that cause people to become bloggers. Not in the sense that they become inspired to write great things, though. More like in the sense that a fifteen year old … Continue reading
Filed under Media Punditry/Foibles
“I’ve been in tennis my whole life…”
The Pac-10′s choice to play Jim Delany’s sidekick as its new conference commissioner is… Larry Scott, a former collegiate tennis player at Harvard and for the past six years the chairman and CEO of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour. Interesting … Continue reading
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Filed under It's Just Bidness, Pac-12 Football
Kiffin watch: there must be a reason.
Junior is still trying to defend himself on the “gas pumping” he-said, he-said debacle. … Jeffery and Calhoun County (S.C.) High School coach Walter Wilson told ESPN.com that during his recruiting pitch, Kiffin told Jeffery he would end up pumping … Continue reading
Filed under Don't Mess With Lane Kiffin
Honoring the Greatest Politician of our Era
Perhaps you’ll recall this comment from a few days ago. NebraskaDawg March 20, 2009 at 6:34 am · Edit Corrine Brown’s speech goes up next to [the Tebow plaque at the Swamp] next week to complete the two most famous … Continue reading
Filed under Gators, Gators..., General Idiocy
The forgotten quarterback
This really is puzzling to me. Today, Tony Barnhart looks at five SEC quarterback battles to watch and here’s what he says about Georgia’s: Georgia: Joe Cox, Aaron Murray: I like Joe Cox. Here is a guy who came to … Continue reading
Filed under Georgia Football, Media Punditry/Foibles
Tuesday morning buffet
Tasty, if not nourishing… The GPOOE™’s new position coach says he’s a rock star. Sounds like a bee-you-tee-ful friendship. I went on spring break, and all I got was this lousy playbook. David Hale’s got a nice post up about … Continue reading
“A collection of uncommon men working toward a common goal”
I dare you to read Jeff Owens’ latest post without being moved.
Filed under Georgia Football
Monday morning buffet
Pick and choose, friends. Jason Whitlock has a thoughtful piece on why academic analysis of college athletics should be more nuanced. The problem is that the NCAA doesn’t do nuance well. Rich Rodriguez reminds me why I’m not particularly swept … Continue reading
It’$ $o ea$y.
One fairly common argument made in the BCS/playoffs debate is that the Masters of the (college football) Universe are spectacularly bad business people because they’ve purposefully elected to leave tons of money on the table by refusing to embrace a … Continue reading
Filed under BCS/Playoffs, It's Just Bidness
Even Fox doesn’t want to listen to Thom Brennaman call BCS games anymore.
Talk about throwing in the towel – Speaking of the BCS: Will FOX Sports televise the final year of its contract? Remember that back in 2007 FOX jumped into the BCS sweepstakes and took it away from ABC by paying … Continue reading
Filed under College Football, It's Just Bidness
