As expected, Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe resigned today as part of the latest effort to save the Big 12. This caused the most hilarious account on Twitter, Fake Dan Beebe — the funniest fake tweeter since @MayorEmanuel and his pet duck Quaxelrod disappeared into the motherf***ing time portal — to go out in an absolute blaze of glory, one… Read more »
A true must-see: NASA: “Video of the Aurora Australis taken by the crew of Expedition 29 on board the International Space Station. This sequence of shots was taken September 17, 2011 from 17:22:27 to 17:45:12 GMT, on an ascending pass from south of Madagascar to just north of Australia over the Indian Ocean.” Dr. Jeff Masters: “The rippling green curtains… Read more »
YAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!! The Pac-16 is dead! The Pac-16 is dead! The Pac-16 is dead! USC, still in Boulder every other year! WOOHOO!!! Victory!!! Larry Scott has decided to pull the plug on negotiations with Texas & co., apparently deeming that it wasn’t worth all the hassles and problems expansion was going to entail. Undoubtedly we’ll learn more about exactly what transpired… Read more »
“Fell deeds awake! Now for wrath, now for ruin, and an Orange dawn!” In a stunning development that virtually guarantees #CHAOS and #PANIC on the conference realignment front, Syracuse and Pittsburgh have abandoned the Big East in favor of the ACC. So the ACC is the first conference to reach 14 teams — the SEC presently being stuck in limbo… Read more »
A good week for the Pac-12 who went 8-4, with two losses coming from conference foes. Promising starts for all the North teams but OSU, less so for the South. This weekend serves as a breather for a few teams, but a tough challenge for others. Utah, Washington, Washington State all face their toughest opponents so far this season. How… Read more »
The Austin American-Statesman‘s latest update on conference realignment reveals that Oklahoma is apparently dead-set on going west to the Pac-12, but Texas is still weighing three options: Pac-12, ACC, or independence. None of that is hugely shocking if you’ve been following this story, but this nugget is very important: The ACC is willing to talk about a unique conference format… Read more »
I was planning to have this done by this morning. As you can see, things did not go as planned. Part of it, most of it I suppose, is that while I have lots of thoughts about September 11, 2001 kicking around my brain, they don’t easily line up into any sort of easy narrative to be placed on the… Read more »
Depending on your time zone, it is, or soon will be, September 11, 2011 — ten years since the atrocity. Above is a photo of the Jason Dahl memorial in the Ken Caryl section of Littleton. The pilot of United 93 was living in Ken Caryl in September 2001, and there’s a nice little roadside memorial in his honor. I… Read more »
What follows below the jump is the piece I wrote after September 11th for the Connecticut College Voice. I was in DC at the time, studying at American University for the Semester in Washington Program, and sent this story in to the paper via email. It ran in the September 14th edition of the Voice, as it was/is a weekly… Read more »
With Texas A&M all but gone from the Big XII and Oklahoma threatening movement, the possibility of a Pac-16 is alive again, a lot sooner than most expected. Although the Pac-12 has publicly stated that they’d prefer to stay at 12, it would almost assuredly move to expand if the Big XII fell apart as a result of SEC accepting… Read more »
