The Best And Worst Of The NCAA Tournament’s Opening Weekend

Monday, March 21st, 2011

Biggest Surprises: Virginia Commonwealth "It is an outrage that VCU is in the tournament over (insert major conference team here)" - Every College Basketball Analyst Everywhere. Um, you guys are all fired. The Rams have been outstanding so far, more than justifying their selection. VCU is the only team to play three games ...

Who Wouldn’t Want To Join The Big East?

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

Since expansion is the trendy thing to do, the Big East is apparently looking to add a couple of football teams. TCU, Central Florida, and Villanova seem to be the front-runners, according to the ESPN article. It's pretty easy to make fun of the Big East for being by far the ...

Link Dump!

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

WTF? - With Leather Tiger is back at Bay Hill - No Guts, No Glory That's what you get for having a left-handed shortstop - Outside the Boxscore Todd Helton will be a Rockie forever. And also a possible steroids guy - Sparty and Friends Some one is letting Evander Holyfield's corpse fight again? ...

TheBaker Tackles The Worst NCAA Bubble In History

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

First off, I want to start by saying anyone who advocates expanding the NCAA Tournament field from 65 teams to 96 teams is a moron. This isn't little league. We don't all get participation ribbons. And I know there were opponents to the expansion to 64 back when it was introduced, ...

Pitino Done At Louisville After This Year?

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Rumors have been swirling all day around these here internets that Louisville head coach Rick Pitino has been working hard to get the head coaching job with the New Jersey Nets. Pitino has since shot down those reports but several sources are still insisting that he's eying a move to ...

Your Week 13 College Football Picks

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Record after week 12: 129-66, 90-103-2 AS I suck against the number again. 2008 was my version of Luis Gonzalez's 51 home runs. Happy Thanksgiving! Thursday, November 26, 2009 8 pm ET Lone Star Showdown (3) Texas (11-0) at Texas A&M (6-5) (+21) The one college football game on Thanksgiving actually has more riding on it that ...

Eric Devendorf, White Trash Five-Tooler

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Since today will see streets in towns all across the country littered with pasty white Irishmen (and women) celebrating the beautiful world of alcohol, I figured we should have some sort of homage to pasty whiteness. So to do that we're going to discuss one of the biggest feel-bad stories to ...

At Least We’re Not DePaul

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Indiana's basketball season continues falling to depths that have only been previously measured in the Marianas Trench, with the latest indignity coming on Wednesday night with the Hoosiers' first home loss to Northwestern in 41 years. In fact, the Wildcats had never beaten IU at Assembly Hall, with the last ...

On Big East Hoops: Let’s Not Get Crazy About Marquette Yet

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

I'm betting there's some people around the water cooler (I'm betting because I don't partake in water coolers or those conversations) who fancy themselves college basketball experts and are thinking that, after Connecticut of course, Marquette might be the class of the Big East. They might be right. But jumping to rash conclusions ...

My Perfectly Healthy Infatuation With Pitt Panther Basketball

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Let's begin this post with a simple statement: I love University of Pittsburgh basketball. Whew, it feels good to get that off my chest. Everybody knows this blog is populated with guys who attended The Indiana University. So, naturally, we're all IU basketball fans. But Pitt, now ranked No. 1 and probably ...