Musing and ruminations on life, the universe, everything
Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Saw a tweet from the homie Joel Anderson this morning that got me thinking. (Check out Joel’s work at Slate including Slow Burn Season 6: The L.A. Riots and Slow Burn Season 3: Biggie and Tupac.) Joel’s tweet: https://twitter.com/byjoelanderson/status/1460619627772334081?s=20 And as I pondered it over my morning cup of coffee, I had... Continue Reading →
https://fbschedules.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/cfb-playoff-logo.png The College Football Playoff maintains that “every game counts”. No. Really. They do. It’s even on the FAQ section of their website: “The playoff was created to preserve the excitement and significance of college football’s unique regular season where every game counts.” See? They said it, so it must be true, right? Although the... Continue Reading →
A lot has happened over the last couple of days, and so I decided to try and use some of my skills to cover everything.So let me introduce the inaugural "The Final Timeout" podcast.I decided to start by discussing Kyle Flood's suspension, SMU's reviewing of prospective student athletes' social media accounts, and the termination of... Continue Reading →
Caught an interesting quote from Notre Dame head football coach Brian Kelly in this story from ND Insider (h/t: SB Nation). In it, Kelly states that basically, all of his football players are probably at-risk students:I think we recognized that all of my football players are at-risk — all of them — really. Honestly, I don’t... Continue Reading →
Lots of jokes have been made about Larry Brown’s wandering eye.Yahoo’s Pat Forde called Bobby Petrino “The Disingenuous Drifter” at one point for interviewing for job after job after job.I even wrote a piece commenting on Mike Anderson leaving Missouri for Arkansas and mentioned the numerous flirtations he had racked up during his tenure in... Continue Reading →
Dear ESPN,I'm probably long overdue in writing this missive, and for that I should apologize. Although I am sure that by now, you must have realized that this letter was coming. I know from my perspective, the writing has been on the wall for some time now, but events over the past few months have... Continue Reading →
My son was born on September 8, 2007, which I remember not just for his birth, but also because it was the day that Dennis Dixon ran wild against Michigan in the Big House on the heels of Appalachian State stunning the Wolverines a week earlier. Now, in 2007 most of us football fans hadn’t... Continue Reading →
And up with the puff of white smoke, there is expansion news in college sports.But it's the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament expansion that is the news of the day before the NFL Draft consumes all sports news like Galactus.The men's tournament will expand to 68 teams next year, getting to a number that is at... Continue Reading →
I've had to go underground from the sports blogging scene because work/home life/blogging balance wasn't happening. Having my allergies flare up wasn't happening, either.So naturally, when I head off for my mini-sabbatical, all hell decides to break loose. Of note to me:1) The NCAA's new celebration rule, which I will get to tomorrow. Suffice to... Continue Reading →
The company that the Big Ten hired to help them determine whether or not to expand and who to look at has come back and said, "Yep. Expand."Interesting piece by Teddy Greenstein in the Chicago Tribune today with his thoughts about who would be the best fit for the conference.Teddy cites the following factors as... Continue Reading →
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