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This Week's BlogPoll Top 25 Ballot
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I'm pretty comfortable with my BCS national-title pairing being TCU versus the Alabama-Florida winner, but I recognize that doesn't reflect the SEC Champ/Texas inevitability. More after the list.RankTeam 1 TCU 2 Alabama 3 Florida 4 Texas 5 Cincinnati ...
Sunday 11/11 (Weis) Quickie
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I think we need to appreciate the level of schadenfreude in effect right now about Notre Dame and Charlie Weis. Aside from ND fans, who wasn't cheering last night when UConn won at ND?Because, any day now -- literally, at this point (probably 7 days) -- Weis will be fired and Notre...
Saturday 11/21 (Very) Quickie
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First: Stop reading here (but come back after!) and check out my late-breaking Teblog guest-post over at Yahoo's Dr. Saturday college football blog, about the most important context for today's Florida game: Life AFTER Tebow.(Believe it or not, Florida's annual cupcake...
Friday 11/20 Quickie: NFL Week 11, Ricky, UNC, OK St, Announcers, Cornell Hoops
2 days ago by
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To lead this morning's SN column, I couldn't help but joke about SN's ranking of the best football announcers: Which pair would I want announcing my kids' bar-mitzvahs? (Lundquist and Danielson, naturally.) (Then there is the default life-caster: Gus Johnson, whose...
So About This "Tebow Girlfriend" Thing
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By now you've probably heard about the Playboy.com pictures with one Erin Drewes, nude except for body-paint of the Florida No. 15 jersey, complete with "Tebow" on the back.Drewes, of course, became Internet famous for the false rumor that she was Tim Tebow's girlfriend...
Thursday 11/19 Quickie: Spiller, LeBron, Dolphins, Russell, MLB Awards, More
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This morning was a weird one -- tons to talk about, but not one big lead story to drive the day, like there was after "4th-and-2" earlier this week.That makes this a great moment to offer a quick PSA to be sure to check out TimTeblog.com, if you aren't already. I'...
Wednesday 11/18: Hoops, Greinke,Belichick, Iverson, Weis, More
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I say this as someone whose favorite sport was -- for the first 3/4 of my life -- college basketball, whose career began as a college hoops writer and who once was College Basketball Editor at ESPN.com: College basketball has the most meaningless regular season in sports.That's...
Malcolm Gladwell Bites Back
4 days ago by
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If I ever enjoy the privilege of publishing a book (you never know!) and I enjoy the privilege on top of that to have it reviewed in the New York Times Book Review (hey, why not?) and I enjoy the privilege on top of that to have the reviewer question one of my arguments (as they surely...
The Real Reason Pundits Ripped Belichick
5 days ago by
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I remain so intrigued by yesterday's over-the-top reaction to Belichick from Sunday night.The simplest answer is that it was a big game and a big call -- and it didn't work out. And sports pundits like nothing more than the safety of the second-guess.The next-most simple answer...
Tuesday 11/17 Quickie: Belichick,Wall, Jennings, Quinn, MLB Awards
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I've got a new theory about the allergic reaction to Bill Belichick's decision-making that exploded all over sports media yesterday. It's the lead of today's SN column and I have another post coming at 11:30 to dig into it.But that was only the biggest story on an otherwise...
Missed Lesson From Bill Simmons' Success
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Lot of talk this morning about the New York Times profile of Bill Simmons in today's Business section. First of all, I love that it led with a nod to Bill's origins on AOL Digital Cities back in 1998, which is where I first read him.That was kind of the point: Bill had a non...
Monday 11/16 Quickie: Belichick,NFL Week 10, TCU/BCS, Jennings
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You either recognize that Bill Belichick made the right decision -- regardless of outcome -- or you don't. That's the dividing line this morning.In today's SN column, I couldn't be more clear about it: Belichick made the right call.You can go by the numbers -- which...
BlogPoll Top 25 Ballot: Top 10, And Then...
6 days ago by
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I'm going to give TCU a lot of credit for thumping Utah -- it's a more quality win than any Texas will have this season (certainly more than any Texas will finish with).And while I am all about "and-oh" for Florida, you can't ignore that Alabama destroyed Mississippi...
Sunday 11/15 (Very) Quickie
7 days ago by
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Go back to my post on Florida's expectations from Friday for the essence of my feelings about yesterday's game -- I think I captured it there.Meanwhile: USC's collapse as a national power this season is THE story of the day -- it's hard not to experience... wait for...
CFB Saturday Picks and Live-Comment
8 days ago by
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Saturday (Very) Quickie found directly below. Cincy's close call should be a nice wake-up call for all the contenders out there, especially with so many playing on the road in trap-ish conditions. Let's get to the picks:1 Florida over @ South Carolina2 Alabama over @ Mississippi...
Saturday 11/14 (Very) Quickie
8 days ago by
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CFB Picks and Live-Comment coming later this morning.I really thought that Cincinnati was going to lose. It's unfair, but I'm not sure barely surviving at home against West Virginia is going to help their perception.CBB Openers: Mississippi State -- one of the biggest bandwagon...
On Tebow, Florida and Expectations
8 days ago by
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This week's Yahoo-Tebow column is about expectations.Over the years, I have talked a lot about expectations as one of the cornerstones of fandom. In a way, expectations are everything.High expectations better be met. Not meeting them is the worst outcome for a sports fan.Low expectations...
Friday 11/13 Quickie: Pats-Colts,LeBron-Wade, TCU-Utah, More
9 days ago by
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Pats-Colts is the regular-season game of the year -- not just in the NFL, but in all of sports. (That's the lead of today's SN column.)That is, if the recent audience figures are any indication. It seems like whenever the Cowboys are on in primetime... or Favre in Green Bay...
Thursday 11/12 Quickie: Manning vs. Brees, LeBron vs. Magic, LeFevour vs. Tebow, More
10 days ago by
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Sorry for the delay. Hopefully, you've already wandered over to SportingNews.com to see today's column. If not, here you go.The lead? The NFL (mid-)season's biggest debate: Peyton Manning or Drew Brees?But, like that creepy Enterprise car commercial, why choose? I can have...
Huffington Post Sports Launches
10 days ago by
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Huffington Post Sports launched today, edited by Whitney Snyder, introduced by Arianna Huffington and it looks like they took my advice.Their contributors list includes the outstanding Dave Zirin, Jeff Ma and Peter Casey -- three folks I ID'ed back in late August as ideal to pitch...
Wednesday 11/11 Quickie: College Hoops,ManBrees, Wade, Hot Seats, Northwestern
11 days ago by
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You can keep Kansas. You can have Kentucky (but not Wall!) For the most intriguing story of the college hoops season (today's SN column lead), I'll take my alma mater, Northwestern.Why? Because they've never been to the NCAA Tournament -- and this year is their best shot...
Tuesday 11/10 Quickie: Wishful Thinking,Steelers, LJ, LeBron, Weis, Boeheim, Isiah
12 days ago by
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So I was inspired this morning by two bits of wishful thinking:First, that LeBron might -- just might -- play for your contender, even if you don't have Knicks-like money to throw at him.If winning -- not just winning, but winning epically -- matters so much to LeBron, then the...
Monday 11/09 Quickie: Cowboys, TCU,Unbeatens, Freeman, College Hoops, More
13 days ago by
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"Team to beat" is a wonderfully elastic concept -- one week, it's the Eagles. The next week, it's the Cowboys. (It's a good lead for today's SN column.)In a sport like pro football, where any individual win or loss is not season-crushing, it's a useful...
This Week's BlogPoll Top 25: Oreg-ugh
13 days ago by
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For the first time in a long time, I have Florida-Texas as 1-2 in my BlogPoll ballot. Even with Florida's struggles offensively, the defense is the best in college football in a decade.I still love TCU. I still love Cincy -- although giving up 40+ to UConn doesn't say much...
Thought for the Day
13 days ago by
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When the season started, all the talk was about whether Tim Tebow would finish his career as the greatest college football player of all time. That may have been tabled, but what was mostly overlooked -- until recently -- is that this Florida defense is not just the best in the country...
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