http://www.yardbarker.com/rss/player/4419 Recent articles about Brian Cook en-us The mere thought of playing against the Wizards Generals is reason enough for self-man-love to present itself.Note: With Basketbawful himself unavoidably detained, I am making my WotN debut, with Chris chiming in for a couple quotes and providing the usual lacktion report.The Washington Wizards Generals: Another game, another horrendous loss. Washington put up one of its usual sloppy displays while doing nothing in crunch time en route to a 90-76 loss to the Heat, led by a 41 point effort fro... Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:24:00 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/Worst_of_the_Night_November_10_2009/1542463 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/Worst_of_the_Night_November_10_2009/1542463 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/Worst_of_the_Night_November_10_2009/1542463 http://www.yardbarker.com/media/e/a/eac72b4f95ed7a3cc9c9546e0c7c9b77e78d853f/small/Heats_Wade_dunks_db08.jpg Now in its fifth year, the Blog Poll is a weekly effort of dozens of college football-centric Web sites representing a wide array of schools under the oversight of founder/manager/guru Brian Cook at MGoBlog, and now appears on CBS Sportsline. It’s an effort to provide a more rigorous check on the mainstream polls that actually, like, count toward the mythical championship, and enthusiastically shines a light on its voters' biases. But mainly, it’s fun. This week's ballot... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:52:39 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/all_sports/article_external/Blog_Pollin_Gators_the_irresistible_force_again_on_Week_9s_ballot/1499236 http://www.yardbarker.com/all_sports/article_external/Blog_Pollin_Gators_the_irresistible_force_again_on_Week_9s_ballot/1499236 Whew!#160; Local sports talk radio was quite a hoot today, as Rodriguez was thoroughly blasted by the folks that come out whenever Michigan loses, and they came strong today.#160;#160; For those out of town, herersquo;s a snip of mgoblogrsquo;s Brian Cook on WTKA 1050AM this afternoon.#160; He and co-host Mark Copeland fielded mostly angry calls like this one, which caused Cook to snap when the listener likened Rodriguez to former Spartan head coach John L. Smith: . Thatrsquo;s good radio.#16... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:11:32 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/all_sports/article_external/Slapping_Yourself/1488752 http://www.yardbarker.com/all_sports/article_external/Slapping_Yourself/1488752 Whew!#160; Local sports talk radio was quite a hoot today, as Rodriguez was thoroughly blasted by the folks that come out whenever Michigan loses, and they came strong today.#160;#160; For those out of town, herersquo;s a snip of mgoblogrsquo;s Brian Cook on WTKA 1050AM this afternoon.#160; He and co-host Mark Copeland fielded mostly angry calls like this one, which caused Cook to snap when the listener likened Rodriguez to former Spartan head coach John L. Smith: . Thatrsquo;s good radio.#16... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:11:32 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/all_sports/article_external/Slapping_Yourself/1488751 http://www.yardbarker.com/all_sports/article_external/Slapping_Yourself/1488751 Whew!#160; Local sports talk radio was quite a hoot today, as Rodriguez was thoroughly blasted by the folks that come out whenever Michigan loses, and they came strong today.#160;#160; For those out of town, herersquo;s a snip of mgoblogrsquo;s Brian Cook on WTKA 1050AM this afternoon.#160; He and co-host Mark Copeland fielded mostly angry calls like this one, which caused Cook to snap when the listener likened Rodriguez to former Spartan head coach John L. Smith: . Thatrsquo;s good radio.#16... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:11:32 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/all_sports/article_external/Slapping_Yourself/1488750 http://www.yardbarker.com/all_sports/article_external/Slapping_Yourself/1488750 We produce a lot of posts every month. Most of them disappear quickly. Some of them don't. Here are the 10 most popular posts from October, ranked low to high. A man has to have goals — for a day, for a lifetime — and that was this man's: to have people say, "There goes frozen, decapitated Ted Williams, the greatest Halloween costume that ever lived." We tip our caps. Barry Petchesky, by way of the good folks at Herm's Perm, brought you the strange saga of ... Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:20:12 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/all_sports/article_external/October_Fin/1465859 http://www.yardbarker.com/all_sports/article_external/October_Fin/1465859 Now in its fifth year, the Blog Poll is a weekly effort of dozens of college football-centric Web sites representing a wide array of schools under the oversight of founder/manager/guru Brian Cook at MGoBlog, and now appears on CBS Sportsline. It’s an effort to provide a more rigorous check on the mainstream polls that actually, like, count toward the mythical championship, and enthusiastically shines a light on its voters' biases. But mainly, it’s fun. The entire poll will be... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:32:13 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/Blog_Pollin_Taking_the_plunge_with_Iowa_for_probably_one_week_only/1450849 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/Blog_Pollin_Taking_the_plunge_with_Iowa_for_probably_one_week_only/1450849 Now in its fifth year, the Blog Poll is a weekly effort of dozens of college football-centric Web sites representing a wide array of schools under the oversight of founder/manager/guru Brian Cook at MGoBlog, and now appears on CBS Sportsline. It’s an effort to provide a more rigorous check on the mainstream polls that actually, like, count toward the mythical championship, and enthusiastically shines a light on its voters' biases. But mainly, it’s fun. The entire poll is rele... Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:20:12 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/all_sports/article_external/Blog_Pollin_Its_no_bronzed_bull_but_Iowas_on_the_move_in_this_weeks_ballot/1410785 http://www.yardbarker.com/all_sports/article_external/Blog_Pollin_Its_no_bronzed_bull_but_Iowas_on_the_move_in_this_weeks_ballot/1410785 Now in its fifth year, the Blog Poll is a weekly effort of dozens of college football-centric Web sites representing a wide array of schools under the oversight of founder/manager/guru Brian Cook at MGoBlog, and now appears on CBS Sportsline. It’s an effort to provide a more rigorous check on the mainstream polls that actually, like, count toward the mythical championship, and enthusiastically shines a light on its voters' biases. But mainly, it’s fun. The entire poll will be... Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:42:33 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/Blog_Pollin_Bring_on_the_October_giants_finally/1324684 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/Blog_Pollin_Bring_on_the_October_giants_finally/1324684 On Thursday, Brian Cook joked about putting together two of college football's ugliest things -- Oregon's uniforms and Boise's smurf turf -- but LeGarrette Blount saved the ugliest part of Thursday night's season opener for the postgame. Two questions today: Will it take more than 24 hours to render a verdict on Blount's future? What will that verdict be? Maybe we should've seen this coming, as Blount told SI back in the summer that the Ducks "owe [Boise] an... Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:20:17 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/Offsides_Rock_Em_Sock_Em_LeGarrette_Blount/1112764 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/Offsides_Rock_Em_Sock_Em_LeGarrette_Blount/1112764 The official Preseason BlogPoll Top 25 is out. Poll administrator Brian Cook previews the Top 10. CBSSports.com has the full list. MGoBlog has the individual ballots, including mine.I will have a compare-and-contrast between the full BlogPoll and my ballot tomorrow. Just wanted to get you the preseason poll ASAP.-- D.S. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:49:00 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/Preseason_BlogPoll_Top_25_Complete_List/1049879 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/Preseason_BlogPoll_Top_25_Complete_List/1049879 The first bump of a diary post. I cosign on this general approach to tackling the site. As a forinstance: in the post about bug tracking yesterday there were a few folks posting links to SMQB and elsewhere; these should probably go on the message board now. Okay people, so now that Brian has brought us MGoBlog 3.0 I see that many of us are confused about the difference between Diaries, and the MGoBoard, and comments, and why Ninja quite frequently wanders around pantless in public. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:52:23 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/MGoCommenting_for_Dummies/284758 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/MGoCommenting_for_Dummies/284758