Archive for October, 2011
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
As if the fallout from the Boston Red Sox collapse that ended the season wasn't bad enough, now another report has made Boston's clubhouse look like an absolute joke.
Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester admitted Monday that he and other pitchers had "an occasional beer" in the clubhouse during days when ...
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
Usually I'm not a fan of assholes, because, well, they're assholes.
But every rule has its exception, and mine is Jim Harbaugh, who is such a dick that it's cool.
Sunday's ballyhooed postgame incident with Lions coach Jim Schwartz is merely the latest in which Harbaugh has come out looking like a ...
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
The South Carolina Gamecocks got their first bit of real bad news for the 2011 season on Sunday: stud running back, and focal point of the offense, Marcus Lattimore is done for the year with torn knee ligaments and cartilage damage. Getting rid of drunken master/quarterback Stephen Garcia seemed to have ...
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Sunday, October 16th, 2011
Illinois, Georgia Tech, Michigan and Baylor all lost on Saturday. God, Georgia Tech?!? They were playing Virginia! The Perfect Offense couldn't lose to Virginia! Innocence...slowly being...ripped...away.
Three of those four schools were handed their first loss of the year. Baylor lost their second, but this was the one that took them ...
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Friday, October 14th, 2011
What I'm watching Saturday:
12 pm: Baylor/Texas A&M - I know I'm supposed to be a Big Ten honk, being an Indiana grad and all, but after I watch the first quarter of the IU/Wisky game and the Hoosiers somehow give up 42 unanswered points again, I'm done with the B1G ...
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Friday, October 14th, 2011
The Big East was already a crap football conference before the 2011 season even began. Then Pittsburgh and Syracuse bailed for the ACC, and TCU decided they would rather stay closer to home in the Big XII than move into the Big East in 2012.
I didn't know it was possible, ...
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Friday, October 14th, 2011
In 2010, the Hoosiers' road trip to Madison ended in an 83-20 beating of historical proportions. This is the game most who follow Indiana football (all five of us!) point to as the reason Bill Lynch was fired at season's end, despite beating rival Purdue in overtime. I maintain it ...
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Thursday, October 13th, 2011
The Chicago Bears have, quite publicly, acknowledged that they need to fix things on defense. In fact, the team's two defensive leaders - Brian Urlacher and Lance Briggs - claim to be really upset about how their unit has played. Well, apparently the coaching staff has decided to make a ...
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
Remember when Auburn (or the NCAA, whatever f--k you) suspended Cam Newton for one day and then reinstated him so he could play in the SEC title game? Turns out they didn't need to do that because the NCAA declared Wednesday that the Auburn football program committed no major violations ...
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll is known for his sense of humor and is renown for his adept use of social media. Well, tonight Carroll took advantage of the current NBA lockout to send a message to a potential future player.
Carroll took to his Twitter account and tweeted a ...
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