And you can find out which schools’ fans will riot, which schools fans will rejoice, and whether Brendan’s dream of biennial USC games in Colorado will come true, live on Pac-10.org (they gonna change that domain name too?) at 12:30 PM Mountain Time.
…this is pretty freakin’ awesome:
I plan/hope to launch my DU hoops blog section on November 1, to coincide with the beginning of Season 7 of Kyle Whelliston’s Mid Majority. That’s only 17 days away! But for now, I won’t be doing a write-up of tonight’s season-opening practice at the University of Denver’s Hamilton Gymnasium, nor of my interview afterward with head coach (and fellow… Read more »
…well, you know what happened. Even if the NCAA record books say it didn’t. True confessions of an Irish Trojan: whenever I watch that video, as glad as I am that USC won, I always really feel for #90 at the end, Brian Beidatsch. Such heartbreak. Anyway… I sometimes worry that perhaps I’m getting clichéd and over-the-top when I write… Read more »
1. Oregon 6-0 (3-0 Pac-10) LW: 1 The Ducks came away with a win over Wazzu last weekend, but it wasn’t the blowout everyone was expecting. Pac-10 parity. Still the top team, but is the gap narrowing on both ends. 2. Stanford 5-1 (2-1) LW: 2 Down to the wire against the Trojans, but man did you see that hit… Read more »
Nothing is official yet, but my day of rejoicing may be near: Pac-10 athletic directors weren’t able to arrive at a consensus during two days of meetings last week in San Francisco, but a compromise is in the works, according to multiple sources. The conference would like to have a north-south split of two six-team divisions, instead of a “zipper… Read more »
While SEC homers fret about the unthinkable possibility that the Best League From Top To BottomTM could be denied its rightful place in the It’s-A-War Invitational BCS National Championship Game because — y’know — its top teams keep losing games, Stewart Mandel offers a much-needed reality check that will be promptly ignored by everyone who needs to hear it:
Topics discussed include a “Liberty Tree” update, parental #PANIC!, the hypocrisy of conservative political correctness (as seen in the California gubernatorial “whore” kerfuffle), the gospel of Dave Ramsey, what farmer’s markets can tell us about our sex lives, and the fact that “gas exchange is really fun.” Plus, our first Spousal Three-Minute “Who Cares” Challenge FAIL! (Totally unmentioned: USC’s two-game… Read more »