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Best. Friday. Ever.
Football-wise, at least. Stewart Mandel explains: Please tell all those economic experts who chart stuff not to freak out if America’s spending is down this Black Friday. A whole lot of folks are going to be inside, glued to the tube. When the television schedules were set last summer, no one could have predicted that the nation’s top three teams… Read more »
TCU:Stanford::Harry:Voldemort
Hey, look! It’s an actual blog post (not a tweet) by me (not a guestblogger) about college football (not University of Denver basketball)! WHEEE!!! And it has a nerdy, Harry Potter-themed, SAT analogy-based title! About that title… what I mean is not that TCU is the personification of good and Stanford the personification of evil (although…), but rather that, in… Read more »
LRT Pac-10 Power Rankings week 12
Only six of ten teams in action this week as Oregon, Arizona, ASU and WSU all had byes. All three games turned into blow outs, with underdogs Washington and Oregon State pulling the upsets and #6 Stanford rolling over Cal. 1. Oregon 10-0 (7-0 Pac 10) LW: 1 Bye week for the Ducks, home versus Arizona Friday on ESPN. Can… Read more »
Hawaii may bolt beleaguered WAC for MWC and Big West
Hawaii and the Mountain West are working toward a deal that would have the Warriors joining the MWC alongside Fresno State and Nevada (and, a year earlier, Boise State). I actually thought this sort of thing made sense, but it appears my idle speculation is turning out to be quite real! However, unlike its fellow WAC ex-pats, the Warriors would… Read more »
The ball is tipped, and there you are
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I’ll have more to say later (like, maybe this weekend) about tonight’s disappointing 77-66 Denver loss to CSU. For now, I’ll leave you with a video of DU Bally watching the opening tip:
LRT Pac-10 Power Rankings Week 11
We came this close to seeing some major upsets this weekend, but in the end, the underdogs just couldn’t pull it off. Still, what started out the season as a very stratified Pac-10 (a couple of teams clearly at the top, a couple clearly at the bottom, and the other 6 mixed in the middle) is starting to be a… Read more »
Ralphie!
As you may have gathered from some of my tweets, I went to today’s Colorado-Iowa State game, with Kristy. It was fun! And Colorado won! (!!) Final score was 34-14. The clear highlight, though, was the up close & personal look we got at Ralphie — shortly after his pregame run around the field — when, en route to our… Read more »
The stage is set
They’re getting ready at DU’s Magness Arena for the big announcement this afternoon that the University of Denver is joining the WAC. I’m told there will be some pageantry, and I know there are already University of Denver/WAC t-shirts floating around. Anyway, here’s what the court at Magness Arena looked like a little over an hour ago: I’m getting ready,… Read more »
Boise State: National Title Game… or Kraft Hunger Bowl?
I just wrote an e-mail to Stewart Mandel’s podcast about the possibility of Boise State, having been leap(horned)frogged in the polls and BCS standings by TCU, being left out of not just the national title game, but the big-money bowls altogether. This is the same fear as last year, except: 1) It’s more likely to actually happen, because it doesn’t… Read more »