It’s Tuesday and I am angry
Sorry I couldn’t get to you on Monday dear readers. Sometimes even LWN can’t get everything done in a meager 24 hour period. I apologize for not getting my NFL picks to you this past week, but you probably would have lost anyway. You see, I was operating from undisclosed locations [...]
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November 14th, 2007
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Cast: Galen Clavio, Sean Bartel
Topics: Galen and Sean talk about the start of the college hoops season. Is Syracuse’s heyday completely over, leaving the Orangemen to sink into Big East obscurity? Can Gonzaga overcome two key injuries and figure out a way to the Final Four? How important is Bradley’s game this week against Iowa [...]
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November 3rd, 2007
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This Big Ten Network thing is getting out of hand. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out of hand.
The BTN aired Saturday’s Ohio State win over Wisconsin. The problem? Because Charter Cable in Wisconsin (the state’s primary company) and Time Warner Cable (Ohio’s primary company) don’t carry the BTN, only three people in the universe saw the game … and [...]
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Desperately looking for stuff to read that is NOT about the Red Sox winning the World Series last night? You’ve come to the right place.
— It was quite a weekend for Oregon football. They beat USC. They gained the #4 ranking in the polls. And Mike Belotti’s wife Colleen (and the family nanny) unleashes a [...]
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October 20th, 2007
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During the Indiana/Penn State game Saturday, ESPN analyst Andre Ware said this about former IU tailback Anthony Thompson, who, in 1989, finished 2nd (just 70 points behind Ware) in one of the closest Heisman Trophy races ever:
“I have much respect for Anthony Thompson. He’s a class guy,” Ware said. “I can’t say that for [...]
October 20th, 2007
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Some stuff to read while you’re enjoying Caturday…
—Epic Carnival on the Patriots this season: You’re either all in or all out with this team - they are the football equivalent of a Karl Rove campaign, only without the subtlety, and with ten times the competence.
—Going to South Bend is normally distasteful under any circumstances, but [...]
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October 17th, 2007
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Fran Fraschilla has now weighed in on Kelvin Sampson, and it’s not pretty.
The former New Mexico coach and current ESPN analyst didn’t mince words criticizing current the IU coach latest telephone mistakes, saying Sampson’s actions were “just flat-out dumb”, and asking of the IU staff “What were they thinking?”. Read it all here.
Sampson says he’ll [...]
October 15th, 2007
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First off, props to the smartest college football fans in the country: The computers. ALL six of them had the team we have said over and over has the best resume: South Florida. Thus, even though the coaches and Harris pollsters drank too much Kool-Aid to realize Boston College hasn’t played a schedule close to [...]
