Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
-From "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll
When I was an undergrad at Indiana, the Hoosiers beat Oregon in Eugene while being outgained nearly four to one in yardage and only converting ...
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
A public records request by The Associated Press was satisfied Tuesday when Ohio State University released former head football coach Jim Tressel's salary figures from his time with the school. You should probably stop reading if you have a heart condition or are easily angered.
Tressel made $21.7 million during his ...
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Friday, June 10th, 2011
I was reading this article about Terrelle Pryor telling the CFL to stick it, and I was all prepared to make at least 25 jokes about how he probably shouldn’t write off that league so quickly given how truly mediocre a quarterback he is (example: Tommy Maddox thinks Pryor left ...
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Monday, May 30th, 2011
Jim Tressel is now former Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel. The Senator tendered his resignation to the university on Monday in the wake of this ever-widening scandal involving his football program and players. By the end, this might be the biggest fall from grace in the history of college ...
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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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Thursday, October 21st, 2010
Record after week seven: 79-32 (56-52-3 ATS)
12 pm ET
Purdue (4-2) at (11) Ohio State (6-1) (-24)
Ah, the scene of Terrelle Pryor's 2009 Waterloo. Every one of the flaws in his game (most of which still exist, by the way) came to light that afternoon in Lafayette in a stunning display ...
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Friday, October 8th, 2010
Record after week five: 56-20 (38-36-2 ATS)
12 pm ET
Indiana (3-1) at (2) Ohio State (5-0) (-22.5)
So IU is coming off a very painful loss at home against Michigan in a shootout for the ages, has one week to recover, and gets to go to Columbus to play the second-ranked team ...
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
Read my week five picks here.
Record after week 4: 48-13 (29-30-2 ATS)
8:20 am ET - Ryder Cup til football at noon. Nice little Saturday.
8:28 am ET - Jeff Overton is on fire at the moment. Must be because he stole LL Cool J's hat from the "I Need Love" ...
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Sunday, August 29th, 2010
You know how they say that, at this point in training camp, every NFL team is a Super Bowl contender? It's the opposite in college football, especially this year. Everyone is nothing but a series of question marks and doubts. No one knows what kind of team their school has ...
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Apropos of nothing, here is how I would have matched up the teams in the BCS, instead of the bullsh*t copout games they gave us:
National Championship: Texas vs. Alabama (because I have to)
Orange Bowl: Georgia Tech vs. TCU
Fiesta Bowl: Cincinnati vs. Ohio State
Sugar Bowl: Florida vs. Iowa
Rose Bowl: Oregon vs. ...
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