Email Author Sean Pendergast

2012 Stories by Sean Pendergast

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  Ranking the 2012 Heisman Finalists According to Music Videos

  published Dec 05, 2012

  Last week in this space, I speculated that the Vegas big board for the 2012 Heisman Trophy winner released back in June, 23 candidates in all, would actually turn out to contain no eventual 2012 final... More >>

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  20 Fun Facts About College Football's Final Regular Season Coach's Poll

  published Dec 04, 2012

  College football's methodology for selecting its championship game participants (and its marquee four bowls outside of the title game, for that matter), the BCS, is cloaked in numerous flaws that when... More >>

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  5 Things We Learned From SI.com's Fascinating 2012 Mock College Football Playoff Selection

  published Dec 03, 2012

  Since the largely money-driven epiphany of the college presidents and power brokers of the Bowl Championship Series finally gave us the promise of a four-team playoff beginning with the 2014 season, o... More >>

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  Football! This Weekend's Best Bets -- "College Football Playoff, Get Here Soon" Edition

  published Nov 30, 2012

  It's the first weekend of December, and you know what that means -- a slew of college football conference championship games that, to the average college football fan, mean virtually nothing. Sure, wi... More >>

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  Johnny "Football" Manziel: How Badly Did Vegas Miss on the 2012 Heismanr

  published Nov 29, 2012

  Any way you slice it, the "Johnny Manziel for Heisman" story (covered ad nauseum in this space over the last few days) is one of the most unlikely sports stories certainly of this calendar year and pe... More >>

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  Aggie Mailbag: "Sean, you are whats (sic) wrong with this country."

  published Nov 28, 2012

  Before I get into this post, in the spirit of having to cater to the lowest common denominator of what is a rightfully proud and mostly sane Aggie fan base, and because it's about to get a little unco... More >>

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  Week 12 Highlights of FFL (Fan Fighting League): Giant-On-Packer Violence Zapruder Analysis

  published Nov 28, 2012

  As I take a break from the Aggies inundating my email inbox and Twitter timeline on the heels of my playful Johnny Manziel teleconference recap on Monday, let's take a hard left turn and hit on a spor... More >>

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  Johnny "Football" Manziel Can Speak! Texas A&M QB Talks to the Media

  published Nov 27, 2012

  Throughout the 2012 football season, with the scintillating wins and the crazy improvised plays piling up, the question had been frequently asked by Texas A&M fans, college football junkies, and media... More >>

• Texans-Lions: 4 Winners, 4 Losers

  published Nov 23, 2012

  This post is for all of you Houston Texan fans who: 1. ...were able to survive the over-the-top gorging and carb overload that comes with the Thanksgiving holiday every year, and... 2. ...were able ... More >>

• Football! This Weekend's Best Bets

  published Nov 22, 2012

  Thanksgiving weekend is a time for many things. First and foremost, it is a time to show gratitude for all of the blessings in our lives, or if you are bereft of any significant blessings, it is the... More >>

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  Texans-Lions: Thanksgiving Day Special BATTLE-EAT Bingo EATING Card

  published Nov 21, 2012

  For the first time in the history of the franchise, the Houston Texans play a game on Thanksgiving Day. Tomorrow afternoon, our hometown team will hop a chartered flight to Detroit and leave their fam... More >>

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  Roll Tide! Zapruder Analysis of a Portly Alabama Family's Whorish Love for Stanford

  published Nov 20, 2012

  The current system in college football makes for strange bedfellows. Because the margin for error is so slim, and one loss can derail a potentially magical season, most teams with championship aspirat... More >>

• The Last Time Notre Dame Was #1 In The A.P. Poll....

  published Nov 19, 2012

  Heading into this weekend, only three undefeated teams remained in Division 1-A college football -- top ranked Kansas State, number two ranked Oregon, and third ranked Notre Dame. The formula to figu... More >>

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  Texans 43, Jags 37: Andre Johnson's 14 Catch, 273 Yard Middle Finger To The Talking Heads

  published Nov 19, 2012

  Check out our photos of Sunday's hard-fought game against the Jaguars. The life of the sports fan is a brutal, tortured one most of the time, with heavy emotional investment yielding very few true pa... More >>

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  Texans-Jags: NEW BATTLE-DRINK Bingo Drinking Card, "Shahid Khan's Fabulous Mustache" Ride

  published Nov 16, 2012

  I know there are Texan fans out there who are wondering if I am going to have the creative juices and the time to recreate the Battle-Drink BINGO card each and every week. (And to make sure full credi... More >>

• Football! This Weekend's Best Bets (And Andrew Bynum's WORST Bet)

  published Nov 16, 2012

  Every week, I give you some of what I think are my best picks in this column, because I know that many of you out there gamble. Some of you are in harmless office pools and some of you are flat out ha... More >>

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  Royce White's Twitter Rant: 10 Ignorant Replies

  published Nov 15, 2012

  "Is he worth itr" In the sports world, it's the answer to that one simple question that ultimately determines the length of a player's shelf life in whatever league he plays in. Extrapolated in more... More >>

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  Zapruder Video Analysis Of Drunk, Racist Aggie Fan Starting A Fight In An Airport

  published Nov 14, 2012

  In the wake of Texas A&M's landscape-changing 29-24 win over the Alabama Crimson Tide this weekend, with his fame escalating from "local cult hero" to "full fledged Heisman candidate," Johnny Manziel ... More >>

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  Monday Night Football Cavalcade Of Errors, Starring Rick Reilly!

  published Nov 14, 2012

  Something amazing happened last night during ESPN's coverage of the Pittsburgh Steelers' 16-13 overtime atrocity win over the lowly Kansas City Chiefs on Monday night. It wasn't the Chiefs' miraculo... More >>

• Football! This Weekend's Best Bets (Including Bears-Texans Prediction)

  published Nov 09, 2012

  Election season is over, and in my home state of Connecticut, Linda McMahon is left to pick up the pieces of her second failed campaign for Senator. 100 million pieces to be exact. According to the... More >>

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  Texans-Bears: NEW BATTLE-DRINK Bingo Drinking Card, "Cutler Messes You Up" Version

  published Nov 09, 2012

  For a franchise that was lucky to play one primetime game per season for so many seasons, this whole "Texans on national television" thing is getting to be old hat! For the third time in the last five... More >>

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  5 College Football Players Who Would Have Chosen Colorado With New Weed Laws

  published Nov 08, 2012

  Tuesday night was a groundbreaking night in the history of this country. No, I'm not referring to the election of an African-American president (technically, a re-election), we had already crossed tha... More >>

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  College Football BCS Race: And Then There Were Six

  published Nov 07, 2012

  As a Notre Dame alum and reinvigorated Notre Dame football fan, this November feels awfully strange. For the first time since I got into radio in 2007, the Irish matter in November. For the first time... More >>

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  Eagles QB Michael Vick's Brother Marcus Has A Twitter Meltdown

  published Nov 06, 2012

  Since getting out of prison in 2009, it's been quite a ride for Eagles quarterback Michael Vick. Brought in as a backup quarterback and slash-style weapon in 2009, Vick eventually was tabbed the start... More >>

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  Texans-Bills: 4 Winners, 4 Losers, "Judgment Day" Edition

  published Nov 05, 2012

  Check out our slideshow of the Texans vs the Bills on Sunday afternoon. So that was "Judgment Day" huhr All righty then. What was billed (by Mario Williams) as Mario Williams' authoritative homecomi... More >>