Daily Archives: March 10, 2010

He’s just being honest.

John Calipari minimizes the significance of the SEC basketball tournament: “We’re playing for a seed. That’s what we’re playing for,” Calipari said. “Now, we’d like to win this tournament, but it’s not the end-all for us. Our whole goal is … Continue reading

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Filed under BCS/Playoffs

Senator Hatch’s new shopping list

Fresh off of this week’s insult, Orrin Hatch has had enough of lobbying Barack Obama and has turned his sights directly on the BCS suits. Spring football practice is beginning at many universities. And after a bit of an off-season, … Continue reading

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Filed under BCS/Playoffs, Political Wankery

We know what you are, we’re just haggling over the fee.

It’s tempting to read too much into yesterday’s news that radical conference expansion/realignment might force Notre Dame’s hand, primarily because it’s not clear that such a level of change is about to happen.  If all that happens in the near … Continue reading

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Filed under It's Just Bidness

This is football-related. Sort of.

I don’t know what’s more awesome about this post (h/t The Agitator), the header or the graph. I wonder what a similar chart for Alabama during the most recent BCS title game would look like (insert outhouse joke here).

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Filed under Science Marches Onward

Hearst, Bleacher Report and a new low

More negative reaction on the questionable decision by Hearst to embed Bleacher Report posts in its sports section can be read here. To the decision-maker at Hearst who made this call, all I can say is that when The Big … Continue reading

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Filed under Media Punditry/Foibles, The Blogosphere