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Don’t forget…

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…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 »

Record industry continues to misunderstand their problem

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So, reading the BBC, and the record industry position on illegal file sharing. The long and short of it is, the record industry association is shocked that illegal file sharing isn’t decreasing. Though, given the economy and the expansion of broadband, I think they should probably just be happy it isn’t increasing exponentially. And then to further demonstrate that they… Read more »

Emerald Bowl trivia

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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 »

Projection: Ingram will win Heisman, but Suh will get most first-place votes

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 »

Kelly in at Notre Dame

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ESPN is reporting that two sources have confirmed to them that Cincinnati head coach Brian Kelly will be the next coach at Notre Dame. UPDATE BY BRENDAN: Now confirmed; question mark removed from headline. 🙂

IOC = International Orwellian Committee?

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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 »

Suh’s greatest hits

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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 »

Are college football’s voters getting smarter?

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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 »

Enter my 5th annual Bowl Pick ’em contest!

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The 5th annual Living Room Times Bowl Pick ’em Contest is open for signups. To enter, just click here, then follow the links to either create an ESPN.com account or sign into your existing account, and enter your picks. (You can change your pick for each game up until kickoff time.) Because the contest is being run through ESPN, which… Read more »