Posts Tagged ‘College football’

Weak Side Late Assignment: The South Done Rose

Mickey: If you look around the sports landscape these here days, you have no choice but to come to one conclusion: the South is much better at the sports that matter than any other region.
Disclaimer: We are, of course, referring to the South in the most 21st Century War of Northern Aggression ways. Central [...]

The Calm Before the Storm

On ESPN2 Baron Davis is watching Roger Federer toy with some Amadeusian Mozart looking guy in the US Open and dressed like a flasher, and I’m watching it. There’s an actual meaningful baseball game on ESPN; a game I wouldn’t care much about had I not just spent a long weekend in Florida, hanging out [...]

This Week on the Internets (17 August 2009)

Couple days behind schedule, here, but I think still worth posting… I’ll blame it on Thursday night at some Irish bar drinking 250th anniversary Guinness and a Friday – Saturday suddenly filled with trips to various home-related stores and studying for the GMAT.  It’s a sad state of affairs.  Nonetheless, a few hours on a Sunday [...]

The Media Arms Race In College Football

As conference media days took place across the country the past two weeks, the SEC once again stole the college football spotlight, although not through on-field performance. Rather, by announcing the release of the SEC Digital Network and the creation of the SEC Network, both of which premiere in August. The SEC Digital Network, a [...]

The Spread Offense: “All Your Base Are Belong To Us.”

It’s no secret that in college football over the past decade the spread offense has gone from obscurity to obsession. ESPN.com is reporting that 46 48 of the 120 teams in the FBS ran a spread-based offense or variation last season (at least 75% of the time), or plan to in 2009. Among them are [...]

50 Days and 50 Nights

And now, an important message from our non-baseball related sponsors…the start of the college football season is just 50 days away – let the countdown begin.
While the rest of America was watching the All-Star game last night (yeah, Obama threw out the first pitch – big deal) I was busy celebrating the release of NCAA [...]