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(From Dictionary.com)hoaxʊks/ Show S[hohks] Show IPA noun 1. something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax. verb (used with object) 2. to deceive by a hoax; hoodwink. Origin: 1790–1800; perhaps contraction of hocus Synonyms 1. deception, fraud, fake, imposture, humbug. "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has... Continue Reading →
I was stunned when I heard that Tommy Tuberville was leaving Texas Tech for the Cincinnati job, especially given the destabilization and demolition of the Big East conference. Comparatively speaking, the Big 12 was a stable place.Of course, Tuberville at Texas Tech never really made sense, and seeing as how the season ended there for... Continue Reading →
In the preseason polls, Northern Illinois received one vote in the AP Top 25, and two votes in the USA Today Coaches poll, ranked behind such illustrious teams as South Florida (3-9), Virginia (4-8), Missouri (5-7), Southern Mississippi (0-12!), Utah (5-7), Arkansas (4-8) and Auburn (3-9).After losing to Iowa in Week One, Northern Illinois did... Continue Reading →
This is not the way I planned on reawakening this blog, but I can think of no other good venue for organizing my thoughts about the absolute load of shit I saw and heard on Twitter today.Good grief, I can already hear you saying. Not another one of those "You can't believe what you heard some... Continue Reading →
Dormancy has been the norm around here of late, through much fault of my own.I am sad to say that I do not have the time to dedicate to this space like I wanted to. The vision in my head just does not match up to the reality of my current situation, and there were... Continue Reading →
I lived in State College, Pennsylvania for three years in the early to mid 2000s. It's hard to live near and work for Penn State without developing some level of affection for the communty, and for the Nittany Lions football team.I lived about three miles or so from the stadium and drove past it on... Continue Reading →
I don't know about you, but I have been waiting for this day for a long, long time. The start of the 2011 college football season has taken forver to get here, and now that it is here, hopefully attention can be paid to the game on the field.And this year more than ever, that... Continue Reading →
I'll be doing a guest spot tomorrow over at Blatant Homerism, an Oklahoma blog with the Bloguin network. It's "Best of Week" and I highly recommend you check out the other stuff over there. The guys do good work on Oklahoma football and college football in general and is in my must read rotation of... Continue Reading →
I've been pretty sparse here for the last couple of months, but I am formally taking a break from the blog and from college football until May.I'm not a big college recruiting guy anyway, so it's not going to cut into anything I wouldn't have been covering anyway. But I have some work and family... Continue Reading →
I'm not one to be hyperbolic about calling the most recent thing I've seen "the greatest."Oregon and Auburn staged a decent game in the desert of Arizona Monday evening. I won't call it great.There was the requisite drama, with Oregon scoring a touchdown with less than three minutes remaining in the game to force a... Continue Reading →
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