Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delaney isn’t just satisfied holding America hostage by refusing to discuss a college football playoff, or maintaining his archaic devotion to the Rose Bowl and the pre-Thanksgiving schedule. He also recently launched his Big Ten Network and most of America’s cable companies are refusing to put it on their basic package because Delaney [...]
Snakes In My Pants
Cause, you know, we need more people talking ’bout sports.
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Dec 26
NFL Network cries uncle
Sometimes, everyone wins. The Patriots/Giants game on Saturday night, originally scheduled to be shown only on the NFL Network will be simulcast on NBC and CBS marking the first time in league history that three separate networks will carry the game. Although I have the NFL Network, I’m happy to not have to [...]
Dec 20
Another reason — more serious than sports — why it was smart for BC to move to the ACC and why Syracuse should have jumped at the chance
As northeastern populations decline, schools without a national reputation are finding that the number of applicants is diminishing. While both BC and SU have national bases already, in the three years since joining the ACC, applications to BC from the southeast, where the population is growing, have increased dramatically.
The Boston Globe reports: “Prominent [...]
Dec 19
The dog ate my baseball
Chock up yet another tale to the growing list stories regarding the slightly-off kilter Red Sox closer with this tale regarding the fate of the 2007 World Series clinching baseball (emphasis is my own):
Dec 18
Nats open 2008 season, new stadium on ESPN
This may be the only time the Nationals are on ESPN this year, but at least for one night the home town team will be the only game to watch.
Dec 17
Dukes and Lo Duca Not Likely Dimitri Young II & III
Dimitri Young was not only the comeback player of the year, but really the comeback story of the year too. The Nats seems to want to see the good side of people, particularly Elijah Dukes, Lastings Milledge and Paul Lo Duca both had some less than positive publicity in their previous roles.
Since signing, Lo Duca [...]
Dec 17
8-Mile’s ACL injury dooms Syracuse
Eric “8-Mile” Devendorf is out for the remainder of the season after tearing his ACL early in the 2nd half of the Orange’s 125-75 victory over Eastern Tennessee State on Saturday. Including Andy Rautin’s injury this summer and Josh Wright’s inexplicable absence from the team (quoting Jim Boeheim: “Josh Wright did [...]
Dec 17
Michigan nabs Mountaineer’s Rodriguez
Michigan finally has a new head coach. Having watched the WVU teams in recent years brutalize the rest of the Big East, this is good on two levels. It gets Rodriguez out of the Big East and it gives Michigan a very good young (44) coach. I like his fire, his enthusiasm. It’s a good [...]
Dec 15
Let’s Clear This Up Right Now
Cruiser, you’re not the only one to keep erroneuously reporting this, as I’ve heard it again and again on sports talk radio this week/weekend. It’s also not the biggest deal in the world, but it’s bugging the crap outta me nonetheless, so hopefully we can end it right here:
Former Senator George J. Mitchell, author [...]
Dec 15
This is what I meant about BC not travelling well…
http://bostoncollegeeagles.tv/
This is not a shot at BC, although I’d be happy to do that too.
It’s simply the exclamation point on the bowl-selection and BCS debate discussed last week.
Here we have an Athletic Director of an allegedly bigf-time athletic department literally begging his fans and students to go to the Bowl game. I don’t think you’d [...]