The Meaningful Collateral

When you win two straight Music City Bowls, you can pretty much call your own shots. Just ask the University of Kentucky.
Offered by ESPN it’s prime-time Monday Night Football slot for September 1st (at Louisville) - unopposed by any other college game, mind you - Kentucky said thanks, but, well, we have other plans.
“We’re willing [...]

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The brackets are a day late this week? Why?
Well, it’s mostly because the at-large pool is so horrific. Not only are there teams in this week’s field that have no business being in a championship tournament, but those teams are nearly impossible to seed properly.
Yes, the reality of this week’s bracket is that it’s [...]

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If you go by the cliche all the hack color commentators use (read: All of you) that “This time of year, these guys are no longer freshman - They’re sophomores!”, that would mean every other player would move up a class.
Thus, sophomores would be juniors, juniors would be seniors, and seniors, well, seniors would be [...]

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Your weekly collection of links from all over the damn place:
- Playing zone and employing a “Hack-a-Tiger” defense will keep Memphis from winning the NCAA title. Would that also work in golf, I wonder? (Play is Under Review)
- College basketball has degraded, and this weekend’s marquee game was proof. (The World of Isaac)
- NJIT…just…plain…sucks. (Busted [...]

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So surely Indiana talked to Dan Dakich during the Kelvin Sampson investigation just to let him know where it was going, right? Well …
Terry Hutchens of The Indianapolis Star reports today the first time IU talked to Dakich about the situation was 11 AM Friday, hours before the announcement of Kelvin Sampson’s forced resignation. At [...]

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So Saturday night we watched Tennessee’s win over then-unbeaten Memphis with more than a bit of shock. Not because of the Vols play, but because of ESPN’s ad nauseum yak about Memphis’ pursuit of perfection, and the soundbites the WWL used for it’s montages.
Yes, that was Don Shula of the 1972 Dolphins, an annoying man [...]

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