Well, on the bright side, meeting La Rev at Chopper’s was fun. He’s a cool guy. His wife and parents are nice, too. On the down side: pretty much everything about the game we were watching. The goofy smiles and thumbs-up in this photo, taken after the game, are most definitely ironic: Andy Katz writes, “The Zags can’t look as… Read more »
Yesterday, I kicked off my “Defining Days of the Decade” series with number 12, my college graduation day, May 15, 2003. Today, for number 11 on the list, we’re going back in time to a tremendously memorable event during my sophomore year at USC. Drumroll please… November 7, 2000: The Election of a Lifetime In the morning and early afternoon… Read more »
With all the best & worst of the decade lists floating around the Interwebs right now, as we await the imminent end of the 2000s and beginning of the twenty-teens, I thought it might be fun (at least for me!) to do a personal decade list. I’ll call it Brendan’s Defining Days of the Decade. This project is especially fun… Read more »
…to enter the 5th annual Living Room Times Bowl Pick ’em Contest! You’ve got barely 24 hours until the first bowl kicks off, at 2:30 PM MDT (4:30 PM EDT) tomorrow. It’s New Mexico Madness, Bay-bee!!! Fresno State vs. Wyoming!!! Awesomeness in Albuquerque!!! It’s gonna be super scintillating sensational!!! 🙂 But seriously: Bowl season! Woohoo! Anyway, click here to enter,… Read more »
Pat Forde on the USC-Boston College showdown December 26: According to Phil Steele’s 2009 College Football Preview ratings, Boston College does not have a single player who was in the national top 20 prospects at his position coming out of high school. USC has 50. Yes, 50. Wow. Also, two questions: Wouldn’t it be cooler if they called it the… Read more »
Heh: But, Governor Palin, you forgot to open the book. Good show otherwise, though.
Stiff Arm Trophy, formerly Heisman Projection, which is 7-for-7 in predicting Heisman Trophy winners since 2002, has made its final projection: We’re now up to 313 ballots, 33.8% of all the ballots. And on those 313 ballots, we project that Mark Ingram will earn 1336 points – or 48.1% of the maximum 2778 possible. We’re now projecting that Toby Gerhart… Read more »
Retroactive re-writing of sports history: it’s not just for the NCAA anymore! Remember the women’s 100m race at the Sydney games? No you don’t. Because according to the IOC, it never happened. Marion Jones had already been stripped of her five medals at the 2000 games for doping. Today the IOC gave out two of her golds to the second-place… Read more »
Courtesy of Suh93.com, a video compilation of Heisman candidate Ndamukong Suh’s amazing performance in the Big 12 title game against Texas on Saturday. Gotta love the Nebraska fans shouting “Suuuuuuh!!” after each big play: Don’t miss the “rag doll throw” at the 1:35 mark. Colt McCoy, you’ve just been Suh’d! In the words of kcatnd on Facebook earlier today: “Give… Read more »
The conventional wisdom heading into the Heisman Trophy balloting, at least among bloggy and Twittery types and the more thoughtful pundits, was that either Toby Gerhart of Stanford or Ndamukong Suh of Nebraska should win the Heisman, but that the award would instead go to either Colt McCoy of Texas, Mark Ingram of Alabama, or (less likely, but still more… Read more »