McD’s Week Eight College Football Picks

Friday, October 21st, 2011

The only picks by an actual Indiana grad who prefers Indiana football to Indiana basketball. It's an acquired taste. What I'm watching this week (with my dad edition): 12 pm - Indiana at Iowa - I guess so my Hawkeye-fan dad can watch with me and make snarky comments the whole time. ...

McD’s Week Four College Football Picks

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

What I'm watching on Saturday: 12 pm - San Diego State at Michigan: We'll see if SDSU can handle Denard Robinson or not. If French literature has taught me anything, it's that revenge is a great motivating factor. Then again, a lot of the SDSU players probably have positive memories of ...

Current Miami Players Could Be Ineligible

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

If you haven't read Yahoo! Sports' insane, incredibly well-sourced, documented and in-depth investigative piece on the NCAA violations at the University of Miami from 2002-2010, do yourself a favor and give it a read. It is as good a piece of sports journalism as I've read in years. The report details ...

Randy Shannon To Minnesota?

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

We've been hearing lots of rumors about ousted Miami coach Randy Shannon taking over as the man at the head of the University of Minnesota's football program. Now those rumors have a more mainstream backing. Tom Dienhart of Yahoo! Sports claims that a Minnesota staffer told him that Shannon could, in ...

Week 12 College Football Scores

Saturday, November 20th, 2010

8:22 am - Watching the North London derby whilst simultaneously indoctrinating my son into the world of soccer and hoping Booter doesn't assault any Tottenham fans. 8:25 am - For the sixth year in a row, I'm hoping there's a spinal surgeon, a female fugitive, a fat lottery winner, two Koreans, ...

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 ...

Miami Herald Writer Pulls a Dan Gilbert

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

It looks like Dan Gilbert just got owned in the writing an awesome "f*ck you note" game. Pete Pelegrin, the now-former FIU beat writer for the Miami Herald, decided to let everyone know just how he felt with his final blog post at the paper's website, which has since been removed. The ...

Link Dump! Brought To You By Hayden Panettiere

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Hayden Panettiere is bringing you the links today. By the looks of it, she's pretty patriotic as well. The Akron Zips need your help, student body - Thunder Treats So if you're a Mets fan, whom do you root for in the World Series? - The Legend of Cecilio Guante Tim McClelland makes ...

Link Dump! Brought To You By Kate Mara

Monday, October 19th, 2009

We'd like to thank Kate Mara for making her return to television this fall on "Entourage." The triumphant return of Kyle Orton! - The Angry T Michael Oher is not impressed with Jared Allen - Sportress of Blogitude Can't believe UK actually beat Auburn - Strait Pinkie Deep Blue Something formed at North Texas? ...

Bobby Bowden Isn’t Going Anywhere, Haters

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Word out of Florida State today is that Bobby Bowden will not be asked by anyone related to the university to step down from his head coaching position. You know why? Because the smarter people at FSU figured out that you don't tempt fate by running your hallowed coach, the face ...