A great day for college football yesterday. My alma mater, Kansas State, scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to beat UCLA, 30-22, and North Dakota State, from just a couple of hours down the road, shocked Kansas, 6-3, in Lawrence. I actually got to watch the K-State game; ABC was showing the Michigan-UConn game [...]
Day 1 of college football is in the books. I got a chance to watch the Minnesota/Middle Tennessee State game, the first half of USC/Hawaii and did some channel flipping to watch Utah upset Pitt. I would’ve toughed it out with the USC/Hawaii game, but I just couldn’t do it. I quit on it at [...]
…college football begins this week. Kansas State vs UCLA on Saturday; there are still about a thousand tickets left, according to the alma mater. I wish I was closer to Manhattan so I could go. I haven’t seen a K-State football game live since the 2001 Cotton Bowl, which sucks – I miss football Saturdays [...]
I wrote this earlier this morning for my Facebook status: Big 12 mystery – What will happen to the rest? Screw you, Nebraska.
It’s spring signing season in college athletics; colleges all over the nation are gleefully announcing their incoming recruting classes for a variety of sports, selling fans and boosters on the idea that this group of kids will be the ones who make a difference for the program they love. Notre Dame posted this on its [...]
So, this afternoon, I checked in on ESPN.com, and saw this headline in their “other news” jump box: • Tidal Wave: Saban showered with title trophies Here’s the proof: This headline got me excited. Was Nick Saban so excited about winning a national championship that he took that crystal football into the shower with him? [...]
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So, it turns out that the admissions of guilt given by Alex Rodriguez during his interview with Peter Gammons are mostly turning out to be egregious and verifiable lies. This gets better all the time. Rodriguez has hired a half-dozen PR firms to help him with this; I’m not sure why they haven’t been able [...]
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This kind of thing just amazes me. A nationwide map (of the lower 48) showing the frequency of words that flitted across the Internet on Twitter during the Super Bowl. Astonishing to watch. Map of Popular Super Bowl Words Used on Twitter – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com.
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