Archive for September, 2011
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Mother Nature has found a number of ways to cancel or cut short sporting events over the years.
Baseball games are routinely rained out. The college football season opener between Michigan and Western Michigan was called early due to lightning. Even a game at the indoor Metrodome had to be moved ...
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
San Diego Padres second baseman Orlando Hudson had a nice night at the plate on Tuesday in Colorado. He went 2-for-3 with a double and a walk, while driving in a run and scoring another.
Unfortunately it wasn't exactly a good night in the field for the 33-year-old. Though the Padres ...
Posted in MLB | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
It's the smart play. Oklahoma was always smarter.
As predicted, Texas's sweetheart deal with the Big XII pissed off one of the other heads of the five families. Now, in return for staying in the conference, they want some "reforms" to the Longhorn Network involving high school sports and some other ...
Posted in College Football | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
Lots of things happened in the NFL this weekend. Here are my quick thoughts on the ones I paid attention to.
- Mike Martz is a GD, MF-ing idiot. After Matt Forte gashed through the Saints defense on the Bears' second possession of the game, Martz decided it would be a ...
Posted in NFL | 5 Comments »
Monday, September 19th, 2011
Bob Stoops has been Oklahoma's head coach since 1999 and it looks like he's going to be there a whole lot longer. On Monday the 51-year-old coach was rewarded with a seven-year, $34.5 million extension that will keep him in charge of the Sooners through 2018.
Oklahoma's board of regents decided ...
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
Pitt/'Cuse make the mediocre slightly mediocre-er
The obvious news from Monday is that Syracuse and Pittsburgh both left the Big East for the ACC. Everyone knows this was a money move, since super conferences are coming, but there's no way this move really makes the ACC any better in football. The ...
Posted in College Basketball, College Football | 4 Comments »
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
College football in the state of Indiana is just fine, thank you.
You can shut up if you're about to say that Notre Dame, Indiana, and Purdue only beat one FBS team between them on Saturday. They're still 3-0 on the weekend, f**kers. And yes, I went back on my word ...
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Sunday, September 18th, 2011
Texas solved its quarterback problem in their road win over UCLA by putting in Case McCoy and a little bit of David Ash. McCoy is former Texas quarterback Colt McCoy's younger brother in case you've never heard of ESPN, the AP, or any other sports media outlet.
McCoy et al. were ...
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Saturday, September 17th, 2011
Floyd Mayweather vs. Victor Ortiz Live Blog
Posted in Boxing, Floyd Mayweather, Victor Ortiz | 26 Comments »
Saturday, September 17th, 2011
C.C. Sabathia is undoubtedly one of baseball's best pitchers, and he has had an extremely successful first three years as a member of the New York Yankees. But in an odd twist, Sabathia can opt out of his contract after this season, and with the way he has pitched, he ...
Posted in MLB, MLB Rumors, Rumors | No Comments »
