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12 DAYS TO KICKOFF: Ty Zimmerman
#12 Ty ZimmermanTrue Sophomore6-1 | 202Junction City, Kan. Bio Position: Defensive Back Previous College: None Projection: Starter Status: On Scholarship Little needs to be said by me about Ty Zimmerman (b. June 23, 1990), our grayshirt quarterback-turned-safety who started nearly...
More Consternation to Be Had! Phil Steele's Preseason All-Americans
Phil Steele must really not like Andrew Luck. For the past few days, Phil Steele has been revealing his top teams heading into the preseason. Yesterday, he revealed Stanford's preseason rank. At #15. Now, people can get all upset and bang pots and pans and whatever, but considering it's Dead...
ACC Team Bowl Performances ... Not So Hot
The ACC finished this year's bowl season with a record of 4-5. The conference hasn't posted a winning bowl record since 2005-2006, its first full season with 12 teams. The play on the field was, well, not all that great either. Phil Steele took a look at this year's top team bowl performances, and...
2010 Liberty Bowl Too Much Information: Georgia Bulldogs v. Central Florida Knights
North Georgia is blanketed in snow, the Liberty Bowl is just days away, and I appear inadvertently to have begun this posting in a manner reminiscent of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. The event---the bowl game, not the virtually unprecedented Christmas snowfall in the Peach State or the...
Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl A De Facto Road Game? And The Big Finish
Brian: Nevada athletic director Cary Groth expects the school to send over 20,000 fans to next month's Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl. As of Monday, bowl executive director Gary Cavalli said that over 34,000 tickets have been sold for the game, and that the game might actually sell out. AT&T Park's...
Bowl Game Strength Of Schedule Comparisons Good News For BC?
College football guru Phil Steele takes a look at which teams played the toughest schedules in 2010. Not surprisingly, the Eagles finished in the bottom third of the ACC with a SOS of 54. Florida State (14), Miami (15), Duke (20) and North Carolina top the conference this year, while Boston College...
Phil Steele reveals his All-Big East selections
I believe the man is sleeping on one, Titus "LeFiasco" Teague. First Team All-Big East …………Offense………............................….Defense QB B.J. Daniels (USF)……………DE Greg Lloyd, Jr. (Connecticut) RB Dion...
It's Not Plagiarism If You Link To It Is Celebrating A Very Important Birthday
The young man from Portland, Oregon! Before we go any further, we have to wish a happy birthday to a great man and one of the reasons this blog even exists... Brent Musberger. The dulcet-toned verbal sexsmith of the broadcast booth turns 62 71 today, and for our money, he doesn't look a day over,...
The Baseball Bubble, Plus Other Items
-- James's blog has a new name and a new address: Riddick & Reynolds. And sure, the amenities are nice, but I wish he'd just expanded the old place and added some luxury suites. -- Here's a good, comprehensive breakdown of the NCAA baseball bubble: On the other hand, UNC did beat NC State two...
Throwing The Luck Flag
One of the immutable truths of fandom is that as soon as somebody starts citing "luck" as a reason that a certain team beat another team, there is sufficient childish logic being applied that you can ignore the rest of what this person has to say. It's the Godwin's Law of sports. "Well then they...
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