Twitter: RT @LATechPWalsh: WAC has reached out to North Texas and would welcome TCU’s other sports should TCU Football join the Big East | #DU
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 »
As I tweeted, my plan to write up Thursday’s DU-CSU game this weekend was scuttled by computer issues. I still plan to post something prior to Wednesday’s Alcorn State game. But for now, a rather different issue, from the annals of EPIC FAIL…
I know this may be blasphemous on this site, but… I just don’t care for college football. At all. I won’t say I hate it, because, hey it’s football. I can sit down and watch a college football game and recognize that it at least resembles a sport I enjoy. Also, a team, Boise State, plays on blue turf. While… Read more »
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 »
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 »
Twitter: WAC “in talks about reaching out to North Texas”; Benson “expects NCAA to reexamine rules on continuity of membership” http://aol.it/c6hJDH #DU
Twitter: RT @jaredeborn: “Right now, there’s no backup plan,” Benson said. http://aol.it/dgT87F … In other words “We’re screwed.” USU, UI, SJSU, NMSU, LTU panic mode #DU
I swear I didn’t know any Hawaii/MWC/Big West deal was in the works when, on Wednesday, the day before news broke of Hawaii’s likely defection, I posted my article, “Is Denver too excited about joining the WAC?” But the Hawaii news certainly makes that post look unexpectedly prescient. In it, I wrote: [A] conference must have six core members, who… Read more »
Game recaps: Denver Post Mile High Hoops Coloradan (Fort Collins) Rocky Mountain Collegian (CSU student paper) DenverPioneers.com (DU official site) CSURams.com (CSU official site) LetsGoDU (DU fan blog)