Harold Camping, the nutjob blasphemer fundamentalist evangelical preacher and radio host whose prediction of a May 21 Rapture launched a thousand snarky tweets, isn’t backing down in the face of the…uh…evident lack of a Rapture over the weekend. Instead, he’s doubling down! Camping says the world will still end on October 21, as he’s predicted all along. Originally, he said… Read more »
Remember how much fun it was last year watching the shakeup of the college conferences? The anticipation of which teams would or wouldn’t move, and to where? The speculation on when it would all end? The talk of superconferences completely reshaping the landscape of major college football? Well, EA Sports does, which is why the upcoming edition of NCAA Football… Read more »
The biggest reason to either scrap or overhaul the BCS is to prevent the nearly annual ritual (only exceptions in the last decade: 2002 and 2005) of some team having a very legitimate claim that it should have had a title shot. But the second-biggest reason is to stop incentivizing scheduling fiascos like this. ESPN has ranked the “toughest” non-conference… Read more »
At Coors Field with Becky & the girls. Awesome seats. UPDATE: Well, that didn’t end well. But we had fun! Highlight: dancing with Loyette to “Heyyy baby! (Ooh! Aah!) I wanna kno-oh-oh-ow! If you’ll be my girl.” Oh, and Loyacita repeatedly sticking her finger in my beer and then licking it off. (#PANIC?)
So much for hope. Gus Johnson is officially out at CBS, and thus will no longer announce NCAA Tournament games. March Madness has lost its Voice. As I tweeted on Thursday when the news broke prematurely, this is the biggest announcing tragedy since another Johnson, Dave Johnson of “And DOWN The Stretch They Come!!!” fame, stopped broadcasting the Triple Crown… Read more »
CNN Breaking News: “The Justice Department said in a letter to the NCAA that it has opened an antitrust inquiry into the Bowl Championship Series system.” UPDATE: Andy Staples says the “CNN story makes it seem as if there is more news than letter provides”: Here’s the full text of the DOJ BCS letter to the NCAA. Sounds like DOJ… Read more »
Good news everyone! The Pac-12 media rights deal is done, and the conference looks to have hit the jackpot! Expected to be officially announced soon, the deal will reportedly bring in over $225 million annually for the next 12 years, for a total of approximately… THREE BILLION DOLLARS!!! That’s a major upgrade from the current deal, worth only $45 million… Read more »
Joe Lunardi’s inaugural speculative NCAA bracket for 2012 is out! Kentucky the #1 overall seed! Gonzaga a #3! USC a #12! Notre Dame in the NIT! (Fire Mike Brey!) Harvard the Ivy champ! Belmont a #8! Wichita State a #10! Jimmer-less WCC rookie BYU a #11! Saint Mary’s a #12! (3 bids for the WCC!) Virginia Tech, finally off the… Read more »
The Stanford Daily put together a great article outlining one of the biggest non-playoff related problems with the BCS bowls*. Schools are required to sell a given number of tickets, and any unsold tickets must be paid for by the school. The schools have no ability to decide how many tickets they want to sell; that decision is up to… Read more »
I don’t know if you heard, but the UConn men recently won a little something we call March Madness. Or the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship if you have no interest in fun. While the title game itself has been generally regarded as a bust—I choose to characterize it as a master class on defense—it is generally agreed that this year… Read more »