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May 9, 2012
4 Disimprovements Outgoing A&M AD Bill Byrne Made to Aggieland
"Dollar Bill" won't be receiving a paycheck from Texas A&M any longer because on Tuesday, A&M athletic director Bill Byrne announced his retirement. A few weeks earlier, Aggie president R. Bowen Loftin said that Byrne, who held the job for nearly ten years, would "transition" out of his position, ... More >>
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April 27, 2012
NFL Draft 1st Round by the Numbers: Ranking High School Ratings, Conferences
The first round of the NFL Draft is in the books, and now we spend today overanalyzing the selections the teams made last night (complete with the inane letter-grade report cards for a bunch of players that have not yet even had their first press conferences with their new teams) and preparing for t ... More >>
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April 23, 2012
#puffpuffgive, #tryedbutfailed: 5 Hashtag Suggestions for College Football
The Michigan Wolverines may have ushered in the official Twitterized world of college football by painting #goblue in two spots on the Michigan Stadium turf for its spring game. (Yeah, yeah, Mississippi State has done something similar. Thing is, nobody cares about Mississippi State.) Some other ... More >>
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April 9, 2012
Bobby Petrino: 5 License Plates He Should Have Been Using
In case you missed it, universally reviled Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino finds himself in a bit of a flap after a motorcycle accident. He told his bosses he was riding alone, but it turns out his passenger was a young woman he'd hired for some vague job in the football program, and he ackno ... More >>
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February 1, 2012
5 Examples Why National Signing Day Is Overhyped Lameness
There's the hat trick, where Mr. College Football Recruit (who often turns out to be a bust) tries to do the fake-out thing with which hat he'll put on his dome; the flip-flopper who can't make up his mind; and, if you happen to choose the Georgia Bulldogs, the token puppy. Today (a.k.a. the first ... More >>
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January 18, 2012
Houston Texans Grieving Process 2.0: At Least We're Not THIS GUY in Louisiana! (w/ NSFW VIDEO)
SEC football fans, ballin' up.With each day, the pain of Sunday's loss to the Ravens continues to dissipate. However, it still hasn't subsided to the point where we shouldn't be taking pleasure in the acute pain of others. In fact, in the spirit of yesterday's post, the pain hasn't subsided ... More >>
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January 17, 2012
Houston Texans Grieving Process 1.0: At Least We're Not in Louisiana!
Ha-ha!Forty-eight hours have come and gone since Sunday, and the Texans' loss to the Baltimore Ravens is still maddening and painful. How does one process the anguish coming out of a sporting event in which your team had every chance to win the game and put themselves one step away from th ... More >>
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December 28, 2011
The Aggies' SEC 2012 Schedule Is Out, and It's a Killer
Get ready for some beatdownsWelcome to the SEC, Aggies!! With every team in the nation's toughest football conference gunning to teach the Ags a lesson, the newly released 2012 schedule shows a rough road for A&M: Alabama and Auburn on the road, for starters. The Ags will also face LSU, mea ... More >>
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December 16, 2011
The Top Moments In 2011 Rice Owls Sports
John RoyalRice's Anthony Rendon became a very rich baseball player this summerIt's that time of year. The time for end-of-year lists and bests of, etc. And I'm not immune to tossing off an easy post. So, without further ado, and in no particular order, here are the Top 25 Events in Rice Ow ... More >>
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December 2, 2011
Five Reasons Kevin Sumlin Should Not Go to A&M
Even as Cougar fans are trying to enjoy their first BCS run, eagerly anticipating a CUSA title tomorrow, they are worried. Texas A&M has fired coach Mike Sherman, and rumors are rampant that the Aggies will go after Sumlin as their next man. You really can't blame Sumlin for moving up and likely m ... More >>
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November 21, 2011
A Very Special BCS Edition of 4 Winners, 4 Losers
For the first time in the history of my Texans fandom, their bye week left me with a palpable void. Sure, I love having NFL football in this city, even bad football is better than no football, so the bye week always feels a little weird. However, this season's team is a little different. If the Te ... More >>
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November 4, 2011
Football! This Weekend's Best Bets
The Flacco Factor: Always keep it in mindIt's the first weekend of football in November. In college football, this means we get into nut-cutting time, weekends that completely weed out the real championship contenders. This weekend includes a quasi-final four in the SEC with the huge LSU- Ala ... More >>
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October 28, 2011
Football! This Weekend's Best Bets
Tim Tebow, in the act of TebowingSo I said last weekend that we were in the midst of one of the most dominant, and in turn most predictable streaks in college football. The top ten teams each week were crushing the books to the tune of covering the number about 80 percent of their games. Two ... More >>
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October 20, 2011
Football! This Weekend's Best Bets -- Crushing Las Vegas
Vgeas is begging you to bet on a dogFor years, the rule in Las Vegas (because that's the only place you can wager, online wagering does not exist..cough, cough) has been that squares (wagering parlance for "Joe Q. Betting Public") bet favorites and overs a vast majority of the time. And for ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
TCU to the Big 12: What's Changed Since the Southwest Conference Went Kaput
Earlier this week, Texas Christian University officially accepted an invitation to join the Big 12 Conference, which sort of models the old Southwest Conference, a division that the Horned Frogs competed in from 1923 to 1996. We gotta tell you, horny toads, compared to '96, the league is goi ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
Football! This Weekend's Best Bets
It's an SEC kinda weekTime for another round of college and NFL friendly wagers. Are my selection techniques the most textbook, orthodox methods in the world? No. I mean, if I hosted a handicapping show and gave out six games and chose those games because they gave me convenient fodder to ta ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
Football! Weekend's Best Bets (No, Really!)
I realized something in the last 48 hours. I am a big fan of the Boston Red Sox, which means by sports fan definition, I should be on suicide watch right now. I mean, "my team" just pulled off the biggest September choke in MLB history with a soul-crushing ninth inning loss. The thing is, I'm not e ... More >>
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September 27, 2011
C-USA Considers Merger With Mountain West in Search of BCS Bid
Could the blue turf of Boise State and other MWC schools align themselves with Rice, UH and C-USA?In what seems both inspired and crazy, Conference USA, which includes University of Houston and Rice, is considering a football-only merger with the Mountain West Conference that would create a m ... More >>
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September 27, 2011
Five Oddly Timed or Just Plain Odd Texas License Plate Offerings from MyPlates.com
The folks over at MyPlates.com, who bring us just about every custom license plate our Texas hearts could desire, just released a batch of new offerings we didn't even know we needed. The mostly-sports-themed releases provide citizens of our great state the opportunity to show pride in their ... More >>
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September 26, 2011
Texans-Saints, Etc. -- 4 Winners, 4 Losers
Big winner: James CaseyThe easy fall back after Sunday's 40-33 to the New Orleans Saints is to say "Same ol' Texans," and in a way, I understand. Red zone issues, fourth quarter brain farts (23 points allowed), the untimely turnover, same ol' Texans. But I choose to look at the glass half f ... More >>
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September 16, 2011
Cougars Looking to Cage the Bulldogs
The UH coaching staff hopes the team shows up for the complete game against Louisiana Tech.The Houston Cougars don't want to start off another game like they did last week. A start where the opposition, a clearly lesser school, jumps off to a lead. A start that finds the team struggling to ... More >>
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September 9, 2011
Football! This Weekend's Best Bets
Odd sare Brian Kelly won't look like this Satruday nightAs I get ready to drop some more decidedly mediocre wagering knowledge on all of you this weekend, I have one quick thought to share with you on the opening weekend of the NFL season: This time last season, these were your starting quar ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
Five Reasons Why Texas A&M Just Ruined College Football
It's an emo day to be a college football fan. Today, Texas A&M basically ushered in the era of the college football superconference when the Southeastern Conference extended an invite to the university. (That legal threat lobbed by Baylor an anonymous Big 12 school is idle at best.) Well don ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
College Realignment Talk Is The New NFL Lockout Talk
More a-holery from Ken StarrDuring this past summer of sports talk radio, our insatiable appetite for any topic football-related, our perennial need to talk about minutiae at all times, and the usual summer content-related radio doldrums met at a tedious midpoint -- a no man's land that left ... More >>
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September 6, 2011
College Football Week 1 Recap: 10 Things
Coming up roses, againCollege football is back, and probably for the first time I can remember, the feeling that the return of football brought with it more than anything else was relief. Finally, we can stop obsessing over agents, runners, tattoos, memorabilia, and Nevin Shapiro. The games ... More >>
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September 2, 2011
Prediction Mania! -- Weekends Best Bets and 2 Bonus Season Bets
Yes, big things are predicted (again) for NDI've never been one to just dip my toe in the water on anything. If there is a job to do, a party to attend, or a giant calzone to eat, you can count on me to go "all in" on whatever the task may be. So when we have our first full weekend of colleg ... More >>
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September 1, 2011
For Texas A&M: A Guide to the SEC
Welcome to the family, Aggies.Earthshaking news that you might have missed if you're not a sports fan: Texas A&M is leaving the Big 12 to go to the Southeastern Conference. If you're not a sports fan, perhaps your earth has remained unshaken, but it's a monster step for the Aggies. To help ... More >>
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August 16, 2011
Rice Scrimmage Recap: The Owls Out to Kick The Longhorns' @%#
Steve JansenDavid Bailiff addresses his team following Saturday's scrimmage. "What are you dreaming about? What are you dreaming about? You should be dreaming about whuppin' Texas' ass." That's Rice head football coach David Bailiff, who is gathered in front of his entire team at midfield of ... More >>
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August 15, 2011
Can UH Save the Big 12 Despite UT's Best Attempts to Kill It?
Can the Cougars save the Big 12?When I spoke to UH Athletic Director Mack Rhoades at the football media day a couple of weeks ago, the talk of Texas A&M possibly jumping to the SEC was just something being whispered around, and something not being taken seriously. So I didn't ask about reali ... More >>
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August 11, 2011
Five Reasons Why Texas A&M Needs to Elope to the SEC
Hey, Texas A&M and the Southeastern Conference: Get a room already! Then get married or whatever because this idle flirtation, which has been going on for years, is getting tired. For the past few weeks, a potential move by A&M to the SEC has become a hot topic, especially after the A&M Boar ... More >>
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May 13, 2011
Tales of the Deplorable -- ESPN's Instant Analysis of Depth Chart Ramifications of Alabama Offensiv LIneman's Death
In The Empire Strikes Back, you may remember a scene where Darth Vader, tired of the incompetence of the bumbling Admiral Veers, decides to go ahead and terminate him, permanently, via force choke, and immediately promote Veers' subordinate Captain Piett before they could even move Veers' body out o ... More >>
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December 27, 2010
Texas Bowl: Two Very Different Views Of Houston From Illinois
He's just looking for the Menil CollectionIf you're not a Baylor alum, you might not yet have caught Texas Bowl Fever, but you will, you will. Baylor and Illinois are in town for the Wednesday game at Reliant, and that means, in the case of Illinois at least, fresh impressions of Houston. J ... More >>
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November 19, 2010
NFL & College Football -- Weekend's Best Bets (with Tales of Deceit, Adultery and Ron Artest)
We see....FAIL in Ron Artest's futureDrayton McLane apparently has plans to sell the Astros. This comes as no surprise, those rumors have been swirling for some time. Now I don't know if he'll get his $800 million asking price, but I did call Drayton and make an offer and we now know that $9 ... More >>
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October 29, 2010
This Weekend's Best Football Bets: Live From The East Coast
UConn football: It's like LSU-Bama, except for EVERYTHINGSo my vacation rolls on and I just landed in the sports mecca -- Hartford, CT. Tonight I will be taking my talents to Rentschler Field (or as I like to call it, The House Orlovsky Built) for UConn against West Virginia.So I land at 12:45 p. ... More >>
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October 8, 2010
The Coogs Prep For The SEC's Mississippi State Bulldogs
The Houston Cougars (3-1) won't be changing their offensive identity to suit whoever starts at quarterback this weekend. They are the team they were at game one. Or so said head coach Kevin Sumlin earlier this week. Never mind that a freshman will be starting the game. Never mind that the C ... More >>
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June 16, 2010
Game Time: USC Sanctions -- A Lesson in Media Logic (or Lack Thereof)
She cheered the Lane Kiffin hire, tooIf you take Brian Cushing's four-game suspension and Reggie Bush's single handed takedown of his alma mater's football program -- two of the biggest football stories of the last two months -- and go to connect them "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon"-style, the easy ... More >>
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June 15, 2010
Big 12 Conference Madness: The Winners & Losers
"UT's Bitch" is such a nice conference nameSo Texas has decided to stay put, and the Big 12, oops, Big 10, lives another day.Good for it, I guess.Let's just say that it's been an interesting couple of weeks that, despite what others think, is far from over. But let's take a look at the Winners ... More >>
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June 15, 2010
Game Time: College Football Realignment: FINAL PRS Ratings (Sort of)
The Day After...everything was pretty much the sameAs the day began on Monday and rumblings of a last-second, desperation effort to keep the Big 12 together were beginning to gain traction, if the various schools involved had Facebook pages, their relationship statuses would have looked like this ... More >>
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June 11, 2010
Game Time: Texas A&M Trying To Break Off From Longhorn Entourage?
What you fail to understand, Turtle....What started as a history lesson, in this space at least, on Monday is on the verge of becoming an historical shift in the world of collegiate sports. The college football gods dropped this mayhem in our laps, so let's keep talking about it. (For the recor ... More >>
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June 10, 2010
Game Time: New Pac-10 ALREADY Making Southwest Conference Look Like The Ivy League (...and revised PRS rankings!)
Welcome to the Big Ten!The winds of change yesterday went from cool breeze to Hurricane Tom (as in Osborne, as in "adios", as in "How's that taste, Kansas?"), with Nebraska apparently accepting an invitation from the Big Ten to become its twelfth member.It remains to be seen if Nebraska is ... More >>
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June 7, 2010
Game Time: College Football Realignment: A 2003 History Lesson
Big East fever: Possibly catchable (Not shown: South Florida)To sit down and type up a piece about college football realignment, specifically the (choose one) maintaining of/realignment of/annihilation of the Big 12, knowing that said piece would be set to run nearly 24 hours from now feels almos ... More >>
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March 22, 2010
Game Time: "I've Done Some Pretty Bad Things"
"I've done some pretty bad things..." -- Tiger Woods, 3.21.10That makes two of us, Tiger. Of course, while the bad things you did were decidedly more kinky and homewrecking than my transgressions, it doesn't make me feel any less remorseful than you. Hey, by the way, saw your texts to Joslyn ... More >>
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February 12, 2010
Game Time: Realignment's "Seven Year Itch" Sending Longhorns Up North?
Well, it's about to happen again. Collegiate athletics are getting that "seven year itch," more specifically college football, which let's face it, is the petroleum that makes the whole athletics engine go. For it was in 2003 that the last real salvo of college football realignment was fired when ... More >>
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February 3, 2010
Five Things To Remember This National Signing Day (Six, If You're A UT Fan)
Today is the most important off-season day in college football, a momentous and staggeringly significant event that is known as National Signing Day.Today 18-year-olds declare where they will accept scholarships to play football. No other thing that happens today, barring an alien invasion, will ... More >>
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February 3, 2010
Game Time: National Signing Day, The Creepiest Day In Sports...And I'm Part Of The Problem
It's all a matter of how you look at it -- if you're a diehard college football fan, then today is December 25. You woke up this morning and ran over to your computer to pull up ESPN's Recruit Tracker the same way you ran downstairs to see what was under the Christmas tree when you were a kid. (" ... More >>
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January 22, 2010
Game Time: NFL Conference Title Predictions...Channeling College Football
There's no two ways about it, my NFL playoff predictions have been terrible. As I outlined on Monday, I reached a point this past weekend, after going goose eggs on the first seven games, where I picked the Jets to beat the Chargers outright merely because every rational thought and shred of evide ... More >>
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January 8, 2010
Game Time: Longhorns Come Away With "Rocky Balboa" Respect
Around 10:15 PM last night, about the time the wheels started coming off the University of Texas Longhorns' run at what would have been an historical comeback, I got the following text from AT&T (verbatim, including all of the texty little abbreviations): "The AT&T All-America Player ... More >>
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January 5, 2010
Real Texans Hate The Longhorns
It's an exciting time to be a Longhorn fan. If UT beats Alabama Thursday, it will mark only the second time in the team's storied history that they will be crowned college football champions while having black players on their roster.All of Texas is thrilled with the title chase, with the possibl ... More >>
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December 8, 2009
Pop Rocks: Long Live The BCS
By the slimmest of margins, America was spared the unthinkable horror of seeing a (*shudder*) mid-major team contend for a national championship last Saturday. And if you don't think there were some urgent calls made from the executive office of the BCS to the replay booth in Jerry's World (Cowbo ... More >>
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October 14, 2009
Coogs Try To Actually Win One In Conference USA
Way back in August, way back when the Houston Cougars were just starting to practice, way back when the temperature was in the 100s instead of the 90s, way back then, at Media Day, head coach Kevin Sumlin and the players met with the media.They didn't care about the rankings, they said. They di ... More >>
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