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. 🙂
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 »
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 »
If you’re wondering why I wasn’t live-blogging or live-tweeting the BCS selections Sunday evening, the above video is your answer. While the college football gods were conspiring to give us TCU vs. Boise State in the Tostitos Die-Cinderella-Die Bowl, Becky and I were busy hosting the 15th (give or take) Annual (more or less) Loy Family Christmas Lights Extravaganza. It’s… Read more »
Marty West, frequent blog commenter and die-hard Iowa fan, had more than just a Hawkeyes invite to the Orange Bowl to celebrate this weekend. Thanks to a win by Washington and a near-win by Nebraska, West edged out Phillip Price to capture the championship of the first annual Living Room Times College Football Pick ’em Contest by one point, 153-152…. Read more »
The BCS show was as predicted, and all the other bowl games have shaken out at this point, with one exception: the EagleBank Bowl has to wait for the result of the Army/Navy game next Saturday. If Army wins, the Black Knights will edge out the UCLA Bruins. Here’s the BCS setup: Championship: #1 Alabama vs #2 Texas Rose: #7… Read more »
Stewart Mandel writes: In another, 11th-hour BCS development, sources tell me the Fiesta Bowl committee took an unexpected turn in its deliberations this week and is now leaning heavily toward a matchup of the two undefeated mid-majors, TCU and Boise State. That would leave the Orange Bowl free to select Iowa or Penn State and send Cincinnati to the Sugar… Read more »
This afternoon, as I was driving home from work, I was listening to NPR’s “All Things Considered,” as per usual. They’d just finished up a story about Afghanistan or some such thing, when, out of the blue, host Melissa Block stated, as the lead-in to a new story: “Bob Dylan once called Liam Clancy ‘the best ballad singer I’ve ever… Read more »