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The Shotgun/Throwdown: Friday (4/8/11) Edition
Welcome, By-Godders, to the Shotgun/Throwdown, WVU's nationally recognized best place for sports links, information, sophomoric humor and daily distractions. We're being brought to you today by Ballast Point's Porter Black Marlin. Spring Drills continue today and tomorrow for the WVU football...
Georgia Bulldogs v. LSU Tigers: The Haphazard Ill-Informed Roundball Preview
I’m just going to let you know from the outset that, if you came here expecting me to rip on the LSU Tigers, who will be facing Mark Fox’s Georgia Bulldogs in Stegeman Coliseum for the season’s final home game on Wednesday night, you’re going to be disappointed. My sister-in-law and her husband are...
Quality and Quantity: A Look at the Georgia Bulldogs' Non-Conference Record
(Warning: It is not a stretch to suggest that the posting that follows easily could be read as an optimistic assessment reaching the conclusion that the glass in Athens is half-full. Proceed with caution, and with the understand that I’m not any happier about that fact than you are.) Earlier...
Instantaneous Ill-Informed Roundball Wrapup: South Carolina 78, Georgia 77
So, basically, it's like Mark Fox is Lane Kiffin with better manners, since all the Georgia Bulldogs seem capable of achieving on the basketball court are moral victories.The last few minutes of the first half stunk for the Red and Black, so a visiting squad that ought to have been out in front by...
Thursday Night Dawg Bites: Hutson Mason/Holly Anderson/Jamie Luner Edition
In theory, it’s the offseason, but you wouldn’t know it to look at recent events, which have unfolded at such a pell-mell pace that I’m not even going to waste your time with a pithy introduction. Instead, let’s get down to business: We’re No. 8! We’re No. 8! My thanks go out to NCT for pointing...
Evaluating My Preseason College Football Predictions
I’ve already looked back at my bowl picks and preseason conference championship predictions, in which I fared about as poorly as I would if I joined the Crunktown Icers, so it is with some trepidation that I look back at my random preseason forecasts from last August. These are they: Although no...
The Zook abides: How to outlast your peers in college football.
Ron Zook has a record of 21--39 as coach at the University of Illinois. He had an embattled season this year, winning only three games. In five seasons at Illinois he has still yet to match the number of victories he accrued at Florida. And he will be coaching next year. Mark Mangino, Mike Leach,...
FSU's Jimbo Fisher likes EJ Manuel's Growth as Gator Bowl Practice Continues
The sun finally popped through the clouds Monday morning at Jacksonville University as Florida State held its third practice in preparation for the Jan. 1, 2010 Gator Bowl meeting with West Virginia. In their final full-pads practice before Friday's sold out game, the Seminoles worked for...
GOODBYE AND THANK YOU COACH BOWDEN
Thanks to CPNole for making me aware of this video.
Don't Bet On It!: College Football Bowl Edition (Part VI)
After focusing on matters closer to home, both personally and athletically, in recent days, I now return to forecasting all the bowl games. However, I must remind you that I am quite bad at this, as evidenced by my sub-.500 prognosticating record in the postseason thus far, so, please, whatever you...
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