December 26, 2012 – 11:29 am
A recurring theme here during basketball season has been my continuing appreciation for the quality of Hoosier high school coaching. Just seems to me that most kids who have played prep hoops in Indiana and make it on to play in college know what they’re doing. I was reminded of this at the end of [...]
December 18, 2012 – 5:47 pm
Notre Dame is headed to the ACC. In all sports except football. Of course. Because the Fighting Irish, for some unfathomable reason, remain a singular, untouchable presence that is hard to imagine even in an out of kilter sport like college pigskin. The move will come sooner or later, depending on variables including moves by [...]
December 14, 2012 – 9:54 am
Before moving on to other matters, let’s cue up Marty Glickman from the Gaaaaahhden. It’s time we must bid a sad adieu to the soon-to-be-yesterday’s-stale-bagel Big East, her intense rivalries, Dave Gavitt’s well-intentioned promise, her glory early spring days in the Garden, Big John with his shoulder towel vs. Little Louie in Macy’s ugliest sweater, [...]
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December 12, 2012 – 8:55 am
Okay, I’ve looked in my heart and consulted the rational me. I now realize that Western Kentucky didn’t make that egregious a mistake when it hired Bobby Petrino. Actually, the more I think about it, the more it makes sense . . . given the circumstances. What I’d somehow forgotten when I kneejerked my negative [...]
December 10, 2012 – 4:27 pm
Western Kentucky has announced that fallen football coach Bobby Petrino, late of Arkansas, Atlanta and U of L, will be introduced Monday, according to ESPN.com, as Willie Taggert’s replacement. Which, depending on your perspective, will be either a really happy or very sad day for the Hilltopper Nation. Unless, of course, Texas Tech of the [...]
December 9, 2012 – 11:01 am
I ran into former Cardinal pigskinner Pete Compise yesterday at the Yum! Of course, we chatted about the tumultuous but glorious last ten days. I asked if, back when he played in the late 60s, he could have conceived of the school’s station in the world of college sports, if he could have conceptualized playing [...]
December 3, 2012 – 9:58 am
I feel compelled to offer some perspective for the phalanx of doofusses who, in the U of L chatrooms last night, were bemoaning that the Cards will be playing in the Sugar Bowl instead of the Orange. Perspective, gentlemen. (And I use the word “gentlemen” in its broadest possible context.) Oh to suffer New Year’s [...]
December 2, 2012 – 12:26 pm
Frankly I found it odd that U of L’s football team and Coach Charlie Strong weren’t paraded onto the court at one of the many timeouts yesterday at the Yum! during the Illinois State basketball game. Actually, disconcerting is a more apt descriptor. The rumor du jour is that Strong interviewed for the Tennessee job. [...]
November 30, 2012 – 10:49 am
Okay, I don’t mean second thoughts, as in I’m taking back my original analysis found here. What I mean is I have some further reflections to share. But then you probably figured that out, didn’t you? * * * * * I stand by my opinion that the forced fumble — by either James Burgess [...]
November 30, 2012 – 8:49 am
We’ll get to the player of the game in a moment. Need I say his name? Uh, I didn’t think so. But I want to start with James Burgess, Calvin Pryor and Official Statistician, Piscataway SubStation. At 9:13 of the 1st Quarter, Rutgers scored on its first offensive play of the game. An 85 yard [...]
