Maybe it’s because I work on a sports show and I’m inundated with it, but our athletic department has quickly become a punchline. Just this week alone: A judge ruled that Reggie Bush must quit stonewalling and must testify. O.J. Mayo was reported to have taken $30K in cash and gifts. DeMar DeRozan (second-highest rated [...]
Posted in Florida State, Ohio State, SEC, The U, USC | 2 Comments »Fanblogs brings us StubHub’s list of 2007′s Top 25 College Football Rivalries, and, wouldn’t you know it, USC shows up twice in the top five. 1 USC at Notre Dame 20-Oct $409 1 $379 2 Ohio State at Michigan 17-Nov $408 3 $876 3 Oklahoma vs. Texas 6-Oct $400 2 $419 4 UCLA at USC [...]
Posted in Alabama, Arizona, Arizona State, Arkansas, Army, Auburn, Cal, Clemson, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Indiana, Iowa, Iowa State, LSU, Michigan, Michigan State, Navy, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Oregon, Oregon State, Pitt, Purdue, Stanford, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M, The Other USC, The U, UCLA, USC, Va Tech, Virginia, West Virginia | No Comments »Apparently Stewart Mandel wants his alma mater to get on ND’s schedule again. Does anyone think that ND is going to join a conference? Come on—they don’t need the money or the exposure, so (sorry Stewart) I doubt that Kevin White is going to respond to your letter. An ingenious SC fan is trying to [...]
Posted in Northwestern, Notre Dame, Texas A&M, The U, USC, Washington State | 2 Comments »Awful Announcing again provides us with this weekend’s TV schedule (Sept 20th thru 22nd): The weekend opens with Texas A&M at Miami and Erin Andrews probably in a tank top—YEAH! (Erin will also be in Tampa for South Florida, so it might be a tank top twofer.) We’ll see if Coach Fran really has a [...]
Posted in Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, South Florida, Texas A&M, The Other USC, The U, USC, Washington State | No Comments »West Virginia looked like sh*t for 35 minutes Ohio State tried to pull a Michigan for 3 quarters OU throttled Miami Nebraska survived the trip to Winstom-Salem (only because Skinner was hurt) The Tide rolls in Nashville So far “Measuring Stick Saturday” is not that exciting, with the exception of Minnesota/Miami Ohio in a 3rd [...]
Posted in Alabama, Nebraska, Ohio State, Oklahoma, The U, Vanderbilt, West Virginia | No Comments »Many of you have no doubt seen Page 2′s “New Rules for College Football Fans to Live By.” But let’s be honest: that’s a lot to read, and somewhere around Rule 26.a.1 our eyes started to glaze over. So here’s a condensed list: 1a. Under extenuating circumstances, however, you may have up to three Division [...]
Posted in Alabama, Boise State, Coaches, Florida, Florida State, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, The Other USC, The U, UCLA, USC | No Comments »The possibility we mentioned earlier has become a reality: the Hurricanes are leaving their home of 70 years for the greener pastures of Dolphin Stadium. Was this a good decision? Well, the Miami Herald says no: It would be a sad day and a sad decision no matter how much the announcement might be couched [...]
Posted in The U | 1 Comment »Here is their version; here is our version: #16- Tennessee at California September 1st #18- Florida St at Clemson September 3rd #4- Virginia Tech at LSU September 8th #14- TCU at Texas September 8th #19- Miami at Oklahoma September 8th #20- Notre Dame at Penn State September 8th #8- USC at Nebraska September 15th #9- [...]
Posted in Alabama, Boise State, Cal, Clemson, Florida, Florida State, LSU, Louisville, Michigan, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Penn State, Rutgers, Tennessee, Texas, The U, UCLA, USC, Va Tech, West Virginia, Wisconsin | 2 Comments »Ain’t no roundup like a Friday roundup. Let’s get to it. While Pete Carroll was in the Bay Area attending the service for Bill Walsh (rest in peace), Steve Sarkisian was running the show at practice. Sark says that unlike his predecessor Lane Kiffin, for him to leave USC it would have to be a [...]
Posted in Coaches, Florida, Florida State, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oregon, ROUNDUPS, SEC, Texas, The Bigs, The U, UCLA, USC | 2 Comments »No asterisks in this roundup. Just cold, hard facts. And snarky opinions. As the L.A. Daily News’ Scott Wolf reports in his USC blog, there is no bad blood between Pete Carroll and the guy who nearly had Carroll’s job: Mike Bellotti and Pete Carroll do not hate each other. But there is a spirted [...]
Posted in BCS, Big Eleven, Boise State, Coaches, Oregon, Pitt, ROUNDUPS, Syracuse, Tennessee, The U, UCLA, USC, Va Tech | 4 Comments »