The BCS Wants To Social Network With You
In the past two weeks, the Bowl Championship Series has made a string of moves that are about as strange as that time your weird uncle Harold signed up for a MySpace account.
Remind Me Why We Watch College Hoops Again
Let ‘em paint their face, gawk at Erin Andrews, memorize the chants, co-opt their team’s glory as their own. That’s what college is there for. Live it up. This isn’t a brushback pitch against the college athletics experience. But this is a clarification that none of that is basketball. There are the naysayers who berate the pro game, ignore the women’s game and deign to call the college game the best basketball has to offer.
But those people are confused. They must be, because it’s not even close.
Pun Alert: Puttin’ Some English On The College Lifestyle
There’s a cynical view shared about most of today’s college students: impetuous, reckless, irrational, occasionally dispassionate and often short-sided. Which is why, when Mike DeArmond wrote about Missouri guard, Kimmie English on Thursday, the follow-up reaction around the media was surprising.
Long story, short: the likely leading scorer for the Missouri Tigers men’s basketball would not only be a dude named Kimmie, but is preparing for such a role by literally sleeping in the gym to cut down on time he won’t have to practice.
LeGarrette Blount’s Future Is Fuzzy, Ask Again Later
Labor Day seemed as good of a day as any to clean out the Sidelines attic of all the rubbish that no longer had any real use for us in the office, foolishly concluding that our future-gazing crystal ball was one of such items. There are no surprises left in sports, right? Of course Tila Tequila risked getting choked out by a San Diego Charger. Of course Venus Williams was going to get busted out in the third round by a player who’s been breastfeeding for two years. And of course an Oregon Duck was gonna do some punching to start the college football season.
I mean, who couldn’t see those things coming?
In the case of Oregon’s pluckiest Duck, LeGarrette Blount, there are enough unknowns left in that kid’s future to make keeping the ol’ crystal ball around a while longer seem like a decent idea.
We Have Seen The Future, And It Is Bleak If The Great One Falls
It’s become clear that if Tim Tebow misses time this season to injury, then everything you think you know about the 2009 college football season will change.
