http://www.yardbarker.com/rss/player/4419 Recent articles about Brian Cook en-us 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. Functional byes and actu... Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:09:30 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/Blog_Pollin_Look_what_the_Tide_brought_in_deja_vu_at_No_1_and_2_3/1631183 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/Blog_Pollin_Look_what_the_Tide_brought_in_deja_vu_at_No_1_and_2_3/1631183 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, 11 Nov 2009 11:49:36 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/Blog_Pollin_Bama_cycles_back_to_the_top_nothing_to_see_here/1544608 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/Blog_Pollin_Bama_cycles_back_to_the_top_nothing_to_see_here/1544608 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, 11 Nov 2009 11:49:36 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/Blog_Pollin_Bama_cycles_back_to_the_top_nothing_to_see_here/1544304 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/Blog_Pollin_Bama_cycles_back_to_the_top_nothing_to_see_here/1544304 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 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 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 USA versus Evil Soccer! Brian Cook! Spencer Hall! Dan Levy! Live blogging this goodness throughout the rest of the day, so for more on how to watch today's game online, be sure to check out this helpful post from Mashable -- or just go here. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:59:54 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/USA_Mexico_Soccer_Live_Blog_Spectacular/975478 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/USA_Mexico_Soccer_Live_Blog_Spectacular/975478 via www.maplestreetpress.com Brian Cook is the proprietor of Mgoblog, purveyors of some of the finest Michigan and General What-have-you content here on these internets.  If you have made it here without having stumbled upon Mgoblog first, kudos to you sir, you are the equivelent of an avid Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom player who doesn't know about Tetris.  I'll wait until you come back from freetetris.org.   Welcome back.  What was your highscore... Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:07:30 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/all_sports/article_external/A_Quick_Note_Then_Content/775261 http://www.yardbarker.com/all_sports/article_external/A_Quick_Note_Then_Content/775261 Local media behemoth John U. Bacon hosted this afternoonrsquo;s Big Show on WTKA, and the topic the entire show was the future of local journalism.nbsp; A variety a guests joined in on the discussion including co-host Richard Deistch of Sports Illustrated, former AA News columnist Jim Carty, Michigan associate AD Bruce Madej, Brian Cook of mgoblog and batting clean-up: me. Tony Dearing, the man spearheading the AnnArbor.com roll-out, unfortunately didnrsquo;t make it into to the discussion... Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:39:13 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/The_Future_of_Ann_Arbor_Journalism_WTKA_audio/609482 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/The_Future_of_Ann_Arbor_Journalism_WTKA_audio/609482 Brian Cook of MGoBlog and Fanhouse has arranged a basketball version of the BlogPoll. (Football version here, so you have an idea.) I managed to finagle my way into it and this is my first crack at a ballot. Yes, I already hate my ballot, too.RankTeam 1 Connecticut 2 North Carolina 3 Duke 4 Pittsburgh 5 Louisville 6 Oklahoma 7 Wake Forest 8 Marquette 9 Xavier 10 Michigan St. 11 Purdue 12 Clemson 13 UCLA 14 Texas 15 Butler... Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:32:55 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/BlogPollin_First_Run/541296 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/BlogPollin_First_Run/541296 Brian Cook (possibly pictured above) is a fine writer and by all accounts, a maniacal human being. Runs it steady over at MgoBlog, my source for almost everything Big Ten (on the days I, you know, care about the Big Ten). He does many awesome things, his latest being inviting me to Blogpoll along with [...]ShareThis Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:32:53 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/Abolish_College_Football_Preseason_Rankings/310122 http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/Abolish_College_Football_Preseason_Rankings/310122 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