Posted on May 04 2008, read 1 Comment
Whew.
Glad that's over. It's hard work prognosticating the NFL Draft...after the fact.
So many permutations, so little perspective.
We're gonna stay close to home for this preview
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Posted on April 08 2008, read 0 Comment
Move over Danny and the Miracles.
Kansas does it again.
In doing so, by my calculation, the Jayhawks are the National Champs in two major sports in 07/08.
Basketball and football.
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Posted on April 03 2008, read 1 Comment
But during the big dance, it's a lifetime.
Remember mere days ago, when I said my brackets were in great shape, and I was on top of some pool, somewhere?
Yeah, nevermind.
Duke was
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Posted on March 22 2008, read 0 Comment
Evidence of the apocalypse: my brackets are not, repeat not, in a shambles.
After two days of play, I'm actually on top in one pool. I'm in the top five in two others.
This is unpreceden
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Posted on March 15 2008, read 0 Comment
I traded e-mails with Jeff Bzdelik when he was stepping down as head coach of the Denver Nuggets.
He deserved better, I told him. He deserved a team that was willing to learn and actually try.<
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Posted on March 08 2008, read 0 Comment
I lived in North Carolina for ten years.
In the heart of college basketball country. Tobacco Road. Amongst the Cameron crazies and those who bleed Carolina blue. Tim Duncan at Wake Forest. And
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Posted on February 29 2008, read 0 Comment
There will come a day when I turn on a national broadcast of some Duke-North Carolina basketball game and Dick Vitale won't be there.
And on that day, I will mourn.
We got a taste of col
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Posted on February 24 2008, read 0 Comment
It's come to my attention that the NCAA college basketball season is well underway.
Seriously.
I just got over the shock of the college football season, how am I supposed to dive into co
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Posted on January 08 2008, read 4 Comment
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you your 2007 College Football National Champions: the Jayhawks of the University of Kansas.
The Jayhawks, owners of the best record in Div. 1 (Continental U.S. Div
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Posted on December 31 2007, read 1 Comment
I didn't think they'd do it.
I didn't think UCLA was so desperate they'd hire Rick ("It was just a basketball pool") Neuheisel to be their next head coach.
But I was wrong about much reg
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Posted on December 22 2007, read 1 Comment
Greetings from Seattle, where the only thing more dreary than the slate-gray sky is this season's slate of college bowl games.
Like our annual parade of rainstorms, this year's parade of indist
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Posted on December 05 2007, read 0 Comment
I think it's great.
This year's BCS experiment in competitive engineering is a hilarious success, with results few predicted and fewer still are satisfied with.
Unless you're a fan of Th
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Posted on November 28 2007, read 2 Comment
Greetings from Boston, home of the former number two team in the land, the 10-2 Boston College Eagles.
BC, now at number 11 in the BCS hit parade, is one of many Top Ten teams that lost games a
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Posted on November 21 2007, read 0 Comment
Because it's timely, because so many are so deserving, and because gosh darn it, people like these things...
As analogies go, you probably want to avoid comparing epic human tragedies to a foot
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Posted on November 15 2007, read 1 Comment
Greetings from Washington, D.C., repository of much of this great nation's history.
And, of course, some not-so-great history (but that's another post).
Sitting here amidst the grandeur
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