I dunno how many World Cup fans I have among my readership, or how many of those will be on the blog this fine Saturday afternoon… but if anyone is looking for a place to comment on the USA vs. England game, here you go. Anti-British slurs are welcome because, really, who’s racist against British people? (Maybe dentists? Ha!) FIGHT… Read more »
This is not unexpected, but it’s now been confirmed: USC will keep its 2004 Associated Press national championship, regardless of whether the BCS requires the Trojans to forfeit the ’04 BCS title — which they probably will. Thus, the Trojans will have two consecutive AP-only titles, and LSU fans will get to gleefully mock the “Zero-Pete” dynasty. (And we will… Read more »
We had a gorgeous double-rainbow over our neighborhood this evening: It’d be overkill to get all “small and passing thing” about this: NCAA scholarship restrictions and bowl bans are not equivalent to the great Shadow of evil, beyond whose reach is much “light and high beauty” like this rainbow. Even so, it was a refreshing sight at the end of… Read more »
Well, who here thought we’d be talking about college sports in June? Or that THE LANDSCAPE OF COLLEGE ATHLETICS WOULD CHANGE FOREVAR? I’ve been thinking about the demise of the Big 12. Now, I know it is a fairly recent conference that lacks the history of what is now the Big Ten, that it was a marriage of connivence between… Read more »
I could couldn’t care less about “holding [down] the fort,” but he’s so right about “couldn’t care less.” (Hat tip: Sully.)
Because true fans support their team even on the really, really bad days: Immediately after the Stanford loss in ’07, I wore my USC sweatshirt out, and took the expected abuse. Today — an even worse day, though that didn’t seem possible then — I’m flying our USC flag. Because whatever the football and basketball programs did wrong, and whatever… Read more »
FriendFeed: ESPN: “The USC football program will receive a two-year postseason ban, a reduction in scholarships and a forfeiture of wins from at least the 2004 season when the NCAA releases it sanctions on Thursday.”
One of my favorite newspaper headlines of all time — because it took something extraordinarily stunning and world-changing, and made it sound utterly matter-of-fact — is from the front-page New York Times “news analysis” the day after Mikhail Gorbachev’s resignation. The headline: “The Soviet State, Born of a Dream, Dies.” Obviously, nothing in the world of sports can match that…. Read more »
So say rumors on the Internets. (Hat tip on the LOTR reference: B. Minich.) P.S. To review why Nebraska’s departure will trigger the epic realignment apocalypse, click here. P.P.S. How about some other Lord of the Rings quotes to sum up various players’ positions in this whole mess? Big East: “Are you frightened?” Big 12: “Yes.” Big East: “Not nearly… Read more »
For all the empty MSM chatter about the Gulf oil spill as “Obama’s Katrina,” the president’s failure to adequately emote, the potential political ramifications, etc. etc., one thing I haven’t really heard is much in the way of cogent, logical criticisms relating to specific, impactful, preventable errors or omissions in the response to the spill. Haven’t heard, that is, until… Read more »