Monday, December 5th, 2011
Whether or not you agree with its principles -- and I certainly have friends who are passionately on either side of the issue -- there is no denying that the Occupy movement has gained a foothold on the public consciousness this year.
But I guess I find it kind of funny ...
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Monday, January 10th, 2011
(2) Oregon (12-0) vs. (1) Auburn (13-0) (-3)
Two Heisman finalists, two teams from the two best conferences in college football, and yet...and yet this feels hollow somehow. Something's missing.
Sure, TCU went 13-0 and were impressive in beating Wisconsin, but without Boise State here it's just not the same. The most ...
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Monday, January 3rd, 2011
(6) Ohio State (11-1) vs. (8) Arkansas (10-2) (+3.5)
Whatever the NCAA's motives might have been for letting Terrelle Pryor, DeVier Posey and others play in the Sugar Bowl despite their suspensions, the immediate impact on the game is that virtually no one cares about the actual game anymore.
Every angle for ...
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Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
(4) Stanford (11-1) vs. (13) Virginia Tech (11-2) (+3.5)
"Oxymoron" seems to be the word to describe this game. It's going to be a tight, nip-and-tuck, defensive affair but at the same time there will be big plays sprinkled in there by both teams. That doesn't make sense on the surface ...
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Friday, December 31st, 2010
Connecticut (8-4) vs. (7) Oklahoma (11-2) (-17)
Nice little gift here for Oklahoma since their history in BCS games isn't so pretty. But wait, they were favored against West Virginia too! Yeah, that WVU team had Steve Slaton and Pat White. There's not one offensive skill player on UConn that would ...
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Friday, December 31st, 2010
(5) Wisconsin (11-1) vs. (3) Texas Christian (12-0) (-3)
I love how so many previews for this game are making Wisconsin look like a king-hell offensive juggernaut that will lay waste to TCU's defense and then burn Fort Worth to the ground just to make a point. The Badgers ran the ...
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Saturday, November 27th, 2010
How, exactly, did that happen? Boise State, arguably the best team in all of college football, the most complete, well-rounded squad we've seen all year, utterly fell apart in Reno like a drunken gambler who couldn't afford to play in Vegas. Up 24-7 after the half, and with a chance ...
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Is anyone shocked that the president of Ohio State University doesn't really want to change the current BCS bowl system in college football? That's the same system that got his university into the national title game in 2007 and made like $10 million for the Big Ten because it got ...
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Saturday, November 20th, 2010
Ivan Maisel's post-mortem on the Boise/Fresno game says it all. Well, more like he lets Fresno State head coach Pat Hill say it all. If anyone had any doubt about Boise State's national championship credentials, just ask the Bulldogs' coach, whose players were at the no-fun end of a 51-0 ...
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Saturday, November 13th, 2010
There are two things to take away from Auburn's 49-31 defeat of Georgia Saturday night:
1) If Cam Newton doesn't, Auburn's sneaky-bad defense is what is going to cost them the national championship.
We already kind of knew that since they've been giving up a ton of points all season. But 31 ...
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