bucknuticus
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College baseball is so weird
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CFB Offseason 2014: The Spartans End a B1G Case of Wiscy Dick, Cold Pizza for Victims
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ConfusingJazz
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I prefer baseball's double elimination to the basketball tournament.
ConfusingJazz
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Also, are we about to die during the E3 press conferences?
Randolph Freelander
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Close down gaming side instead.
I can't believe Texas made it as well. They didn't win a single series in conference last year, and now they're one of the last 8 standing.
The defense is usually completely awful, I can hardly stand watching myself.
perfectchaos007
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Baseball in the B1G is almost as foreign as hockey in the Big 12. Almost, but not quite.
Evilore seems cautiously optimistic about this year's servers handling the traffic. No guarantee statements or anything like that and I'm too lazy to hunt down the post. We'll find out shortly!
ConfusingJazz
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The big conferences will announce their split with the NCAA in regards to profit sports, killing the NCAA basketball tournament, and start paying players.
Also, Notre Dame and Oklahoma will both be nuked by Russia. We will give the Congressional Gold Medal to Putin for the actions.
Yeah, we had some really bad luck in the Super Regional.
UC Irvine was able to save their best arm until Saturday night and we made tons of errors on Friday to more or less give them the game.
Disappointing considering the season we had, but I think we're in damn good shape for years to come. Holliday did a nice job this season, there's a new stadium in the works, and we're recruiting really well too.
actually, the NCAA/O'Bannon trial is going on. Think the NCAA is about to cross-examine O'Bannon on the stand.
Matt Hayes tweeting from the court.
Matt Hayes tweeting from the court.
Apparent Baylor fan thrown out of Tech baseball game over the weekend for throwing water on people and telling them they'd be "Baptized by Art Briles."
I say "apparent" because some people that were their have said it seems like he was just acting crazy, like a guy off his meds. They call him a Baylor fan in the article but AFAIK there's no actual evidence for it.
I say "apparent" because some people that were their have said it seems like he was just acting crazy, like a guy off his meds. They call him a Baylor fan in the article but AFAIK there's no actual evidence for it.
bucknuticus
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Hey! we had a guy throw a perfect game a couple years ago!
I think the weird thing is how stupid the scores yet because they use metal bats. If they used wood bats I would get into it, but no thanks.
Tink!
perfectchaos007
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I don't know why they don't switch to the lumber. A few years ago they reduced the power of the metal bats to protect pitchers and infielders from screaming line drives. Players can probably hit with as much power with wooden bats as they can with metal ones now.
ConfusingJazz
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Too expensive. Wooden bats are cheaper, but break all the damn time, especially against high level pitching.
I don't know who this guy is but his tweets make him look like a douchebag.
GoldenEye 007
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Pac 12 hates night games so much, they are opening up an 11am Pacific kickoff time for TV purposes to begin phasing out 7-7:30pm kickoffs.
http://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ssf/2014/06/pac-12_opens_11_am_television.html
How is 7pm that bad? I'd love it if all UCF games kicked off that time on Saturdays. Fuck noon or..... morning games.
http://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ssf/2014/06/pac-12_opens_11_am_television.html
How is 7pm that bad? I'd love it if all UCF games kicked off that time on Saturdays. Fuck noon or..... morning games.
Randolph Freelander
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They might like it if east coast sportswriters actually watched the games.
Purple Cheeto
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perfectchaos007
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hopefully there's at least one PAC12 night game per Saturday. I enjoy watching football games past midnight in my time zone
East coast sportswriters and everyone else won't watch PAC-12 games no matter when they play.
So Penn St homers are salty about how UNC is getting ignored by the NCAA while the media and the NCAA treated PSU unfairly, and completely ignoring that raping kids =/= changing grades and fake classes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wt0I-db8LA&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wt0I-db8LA&feature=youtu.be
Yep. USC can finally start recruiting full classes again. Will take them a few seasons to get back to 85.
Did you see what Pete Carroll said the other day about how if he knew that NCAA sanctions and investigations were coming he would have stayed there essentially to help resolve the issues that occurred on his watch. Yeah okay Pete.
Sirpopopop
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Pete Carroll is a good man.
Don't besmirch his name with your high falutin airs, you Mark Richt fan you!
Don't besmirch his name with your high falutin airs, you Mark Richt fan you!
http://m.si.com/4274498/questions-of-price-fixing-amateurism-fill-first-day-of-obannon-trial/
Long article from Stewart Mandel on Day 1 of the O'Bannon trial.
Most surprising thing in it, was finding out a co-plaintiff: Alabama's Tyrone Prothro.
Long article from Stewart Mandel on Day 1 of the O'Bannon trial.
Most surprising thing in it, was finding out a co-plaintiff: Alabama's Tyrone Prothro.
Even though there it opens all kinds of loopholes, it is the best option for helping to preserve the non-revenue producing sports. Imagine if Michael Phelps could have competed for Michigan in swimming itstead of just being a glorified coach while he was attending because he had already taken millions in endorsements from Speedo.
We'll probably never know either way. I mean, it's not like leaving USC for an NFL job working for the richest owner in the league is a step down.
Quoted from a few weeks ago. I mentioned then that Dartwan had a workout for the Cowboys, but nothing ever came of it.
Nothing until today, anyway, when he signed a 3 year contract.
GoldenEye 007
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Oliver Luck opened his mouth again. Basically stated if the Big XII would have collapsed, they would have joined with Big East schools. Plan included UCF.... Basketball schools liked it too because they would have got some big bb programs too. Like Kansas.
RIP MDC
RIP MDC
Those god damned posters he kept making finally got him.
It didn't include ucf. It was USF.
GoldenEye 007
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It was USF and UCF.
So Big East schools... and UCF. Just like UCF was included originally as part of the BE TV discussions after TCU was added. Before USF helped convince schools to push Nova to FBS and keep UCF out. Pissing off schools with competent football programs wanting to bring in somewhat competent programs.
bucknuticus
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I wish ESPN could be held to the shit they spew
GoldenEye 007
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I think they just retracted he was fired rather than him resigning. The possible violation stuff is still there.
bucknuticus
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Saw this chart, last time each SEC team played a team from a "power conference" in the regular season:
I would like to see one of these for every conference.
I would like to see one of these for every conference.
True, honestly, it reminded me of what happened on the gaming side regarding The Last Guardian supposedly being canceled and IGN rushing to break the story before they had multiple sources.
Media as a whole is held up by how many hits they get, which are directly impacted by if they're first to report on a story or not. They're so thirsty for hits that they slack off on fact checking before they publish.
Oh, I only read the tweet once but I read it like they were retracting the whole story. Whether someone was fired for committing NCAA violations or whether they stepped down due to committing NCAA violations doesn't really mean much to me.
That they promoted Chris Leak to WR coach is just great. :jnc
If any of you have run out of things to read, I've been writing about major storylines leading into the World Cup for the last few days:
For Home and Country - the immense pressure upon Brazil
In Search of a Dynasty - you love 'em, you hate 'em, it's Spain
Making His Mark - Messi looks to cap off his legacy
It's not football. But it's football. So that's something.
For Home and Country - the immense pressure upon Brazil
In Search of a Dynasty - you love 'em, you hate 'em, it's Spain
Making His Mark - Messi looks to cap off his legacy
It's not football. But it's football. So that's something.
https://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1649707
Interesting.
71% of 4 and 5 starts at a camp thought Oregon had the coolest uniform with Maryland at 8%.
Shit works.
Interesting.
71% of 4 and 5 starts at a camp thought Oregon had the coolest uniform with Maryland at 8%.
Shit works.
bucknuticus
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The answers to this questions made me sad:
Who is your favorite college football player of all-time?
FIVE-WAY TIE: Johnny Manziel, DeAnthony Thomas, Herschel Walker, Teddy Bridgewater and Marcus Mariota
Who is your favorite college football player of all-time?
FIVE-WAY TIE: Johnny Manziel, DeAnthony Thomas, Herschel Walker, Teddy Bridgewater and Marcus Mariota
Thats a horrible list. That's more of a "last 2 years" list than anything.
I know bucky's favorite player is...
OHIO STATE RUNNING BACK NUMBER THIRTEEN WHO PLAYS THE TAILBACK POSITION TOTING THE ROCK MAURICE CLARRETT WHO PLAYED FOR THE OHIO STATE BUCKEYES CARRYING THE BALL OVER DEFENDERS WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE HORSESHOE FOR THE OHIO STATE BUCKEYES WEARING THE NUMBER THIRTEEN.
Randolph Freelander
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These are kids clearly living in the past 5 seconds.
Top two is Oregon and Maryland. Its just nope nope nope nope.
I'm just amazed they managed to list Herschel Walker in that list of five top collegiate players of all time.
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