FBA Announces 35 College Bowl Games – Only 27 Being Meaningless

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The Football Bowl Association announced there will be 35 college football bowl games last year – with only 27 of them being meaningless this year [down from 29 last year]. While the FBA will be rewarding approximately the same mediocrity levels of play as in 2012, there is good news for both Army and Navy… [Continue Reading]

Leaders And Legends Hosed Down, Sent To Goodwill

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All that “Legends” and “Leaders”-embossed paraphernalia you own just became cheap garage sale refuse on its way, eventually, to a Goodwill store near you. That’s because the Big Ten – a conference that continues to struggle with identifying how many members it has – has finally decided to abort its painful three-year experiment of naming… [Continue Reading]

Sanders Wins Madden

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Former Detroit Lions legendary running back Barry Sanders rushed for 15,269 yards and 109 touchdowns in a nine-year NFL career – that’s an average of 1,697 yards and 12 TD’s per year. That’s astonishing. So it’s no real surprise that Sanders easily beat out Minnesota Vikings’ running back Adrian Peterson – by a convincing, 58%-42%… [Continue Reading]

Justice Is Irrelevant!

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Every year, there are only two genuinely intriguing elements of the hours-long bore-fest that is the NFL Draft and they are, in order – who is picked first and who is picked last – end of intrigue. Who is picked first is always interesting because then it becomes a combination media circus and hype carnival… [Continue Reading]

College Football Jettisons BCS For CFP – Otherwise Known As BCS Lite

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With the possible exception of the original organizers of the BCS Taliban – you know who you are and so do we – almost everybody was performing backflips this week with the announcement that the BCS is dead and has been replaced by something called, excitingly…drum roll please…the College Football Playoff. Who called it that?… [Continue Reading]

Louisville Wins Big Dance, Pitino Going To K-Derby

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The game was poorly officiated and, at times, sloppily played – despite unrelenting inane hype from CBS commentator Clark Kellogg – but in between all the missed calls and neverending mental errors committed by both teams, Louisville finally managed to claw back from a 12-point first half deficit built, in part, by the Cardinals allowing… [Continue Reading]

Louisville And Michigan Tussle For Big Dance Crown

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The team everybody and their elderly grandparents expected to be there – Louisville – is there [although minus one important player, Kevin Ware, who took the term “break a leg” to a different level in the Cardinals’ win over Duke in the Elite Eight] but their opponent, Michigan, is a team only Big Ten conference… [Continue Reading]

Final Four Set For Hotlanta

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One team – Louisville – is supposed to be there, another team – Wichita State – is not and the two other teams rounding out the Final Four of the NCAA men’s basketball national championship tournament – Syracuse and Michigan – are moderate surprises but not enough to kill off millions of brackets like Harvard,… [Continue Reading]

Let The Madness Begin…

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The teams have been selected, the teams that have not been selected are outraged, commentators are arguing, the brackets are printed – what time is it!? Time for office workers of the world to unite and fill out their office pool brackets for the 2013 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship – otherwise known as March Madness… [Continue Reading]

Final Four Gets U-Haul, May Move To Cable

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March Madness is nearly upon us and next week promises to be solid, television-to-tablet-to-mobile phone-to-computer coverage of NCAA college basketball games, brackets and mascots. So it makes sense that – now that they have your attention – CBS and Turner Sports Networks are pointing out a clause in their multi-year contract that allows for the… [Continue Reading]

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