How did we survive before ESPN?
Is a lack of integrity part of the job application for USC football coaches?
Isn’t college football a prime example of the lament of the prophets, “Why do the evil prosper?”
Does the success of an inferior Notre Dame team tempt one to believe in the existence of luck?
Is it possible that Missouri wishes it has not joined the SEC?
Does anyone miss the NHL?
Do you ever wonder just how corrupt college sports really are? (especially football)
Were we stupid to cheer for Lance Armstrong?
Do they send sports announcers to “How to Say Moronic Things” School?
How can anyone not see the value of the Designated Hitter rule? Who wants to see pitchers wave their bats in futility. C’mon, National League, get into the 21st Century (or at least the late 20th) and adopt the DH.
YOU HAVE ENTIRELY TOO MUCH TIME ON YOU HANDS. LOVE YA BROTHER
Watching Hawkeyes=frustration!
And why is it that good football schools are rarely good basketball schools?
You mean like Ohio State?
More like Alabama. 🙂
Basketball is a sin. That is why the righteous SABANATION does not play it well.
Basketball is NOT a sin. Basketball is where sports sweetness and light dwells. At least in college basketball.
The NBA is a different story. It may be proof for sports apostasy.
And I realize that there are those schools who are exceptions to my question–like Ohio State. But even they don’t get it right every year.
CB is right. The way the SEC plays basketball can usually be considered a sin (not counting their one professional team, the “One and Done” Wildcats of KY).
Dale Pugh,
No wonder the name of the FOOTBALL NATION you cheer foris DUCKS.
What hath sweetness and light to do with Sports?
Sports is grit and steel, hit and run, block and tackle
Sweetness and light is Opera music or sugar-free orange juice.
It’s called a metaphor, Sec CB (my new nickname for you, by the way.).
Sweetness and light–finesse, purity, beautiful, artistic–ATHLETICISM. A sport of speed and agility, power and grace, height and accuracy.
And the DUCK NATION is doing just fine in the pigskin department, thank you very much! How you doing with that trunk removal today, my friend?
By the way–How’s it feel to cheer “We’re Number Four!”, SEC CB? Kansas St. may be #1, but the MIGHTY DUCKS are the BEST FOOTBALL team in America, thus, the entire universe!
This is why Mizzou is such a blessing to the SEC. Yes our first year in the SEC has not been the best in the world. But we are growing and dare I say in a few years we can do good! But where we will really shine is in basketball. Consider, every year, Mizzou vs Kentucky for the SEC title. Every year Kentucky and Mizzou as 1 and 2 seeds in the big dance. SEC has only gotten stronger, in both football and basketball!
Pre-ESPN time was devoted to blogging. Integrity and coaching: it’s more of a “Don’t ask – Don’t tell” thing. Notre Dame? Maybe there really is something to the “Pope” thing. The prestige of being in the SEC alone is worth it. NHL? No habla language. College sports corrupt? No, I never wondered. I never cheered for anybody on a bicycle. Sports announcers and moronic speech? That HAS TO BE a gift. Designated hitters? Why next thing you know, football is apt to have designated receivers, designated runners, designated blockers, etc. What IS sports coming to? Let me know if you… Read more »
The NL will adopt the DH when it’s not evil or unAmerican. The DH is why Miguel Cabrera, the ‘best’ hitter in the AL by antiquated stats, could not do much against the tired arms of the Giant pitchers.
Some days you eat the bear. Some days the AGGIE NATION eats you.
Gig’em, CB.
CB Scott–you are a humble man.
Dale Pugh,
Johnny Manziel is a class act. Pure grit and steel. He was not intimidated. He won.
Unfortunately, I was unable to watch the upset of the decade until the last 30 seconds. Those 30 seconds were glorious. Powerful. Might I even say “majestic”? The Tide has been beaten. I honestly didn’t think it would happen. So now we shall see what the next couple of weeks bring.
He is one awesome athlete who showed NO fear! Unbelievable!
In case anyone hasn’t seen it yet, the Sabanites went down in shame today!
Dave,
You know we will be back. We always come back. We are the CRIMSON TIDE. We are the SABANATION, We are ALABAMA. We are FOOTBALL!!!
Dream on CB, dream on.
Now, we just need to cheer for Oregon and Kansas State to win out so we can have an SEC-free BCS championship game.
THAT would be a breath of fresh air.
Yes! Yes! Yes! Go Ducks! Of course, they’re playing Cal, so it should be another blow out.
UnGigginBelieveable!
Oldest daughter graduated from A&M a couple years ago, we attended a couple games a year. I thought the Aggies might win one or two SEC games this year and was NOT a proponent of the move. Not to mention that the Aggies would have a new head coach and new starting QB.
Once again it shows why I should never bet on two legged animals!
Bama’s loss goes to prove that there are not SEC football facts and NCAA football facts. There is only one set of facts and it is clear the Bama fans were not in possession of those facts or they would have heeded my prediction from last week that A&M would indeed upset Bama’s overrated defense. Maybe I could be the Nate Silver of NCAA football. 😉
i googled the NHL to see what was wrong with them…
The NH who???
And how about the job Jurgen Klinsmann has done with the U.S. men’s soccer team? I think it’s a mixed bag at best.
1. Who says we are surviving with ESPN? 2. But, of course. 3. Could be. Seems your gettin’ warm. 4. Naw, they just buy every one off. Sort of like the Yankees. Capish? 5. Watch it, David. The Univ. of Mo. is one of my alma maters, Fall of ’64. 6. What in the world is the NHL? The Never Heard League. O yes, I remember: They are the folks where the fight is the game and the game is nothing compared to the fight. You should talk to one of their players. Quiet and polite, but I sure would… Read more »
Still operating from my phone, but I have to ask, “Who deserves the #1 spot now?” Oregon? K State? Notre Dame? Or should Alabama remain on top? As the Duck fan here, my emotional response is Oregon. But Kansas played TCU which is arguably a better team than Cal. Oregon will set it’s position in the rankings over the next two weeks. It’s theirs to lose at this point. Notre Dame? No. Just no. I’m not really sure that Alabama deserves to slip from the top spot. Yes, they lost a game. They lost to a good Aggies team. But… Read more »
K State
Ducks
N. Dame
Bama
I do think USC will beat N. Dame and ruin their title hopes. I put the Ducks at No. 2, only because they give up so many points. If they play K State for it all, I predict a total score near 100.
I used to hate hockey. Then I went to a game. The most exciting thing I ever saw. Super fast. Lots of hitting. Awesome skill. And the Kings rule the roost, for now.
Well, you got it right, Steve. We’ll see what happens over the next two weeks.
I just found out that Johnny Manziel was originally going to go to Oregon.
Could you imagine what that have looked like? Scary.
You all think you know basketball, which is the funniest thing I’ve heard today.
Rick Patino and the Louisville Cards. is on the rise. Ya better watch out!
for remembrance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svh6RyWzw3c
As a member of the media and occassional preacher, I would just suggest that a preacher might not be the best person to criticize a football announcer for saying dumb stuff. Both have open mics and time to fill, and the results are sometimes painful.
Astute observation.
Now that’s funny.
That comes from someone who has has said dumb stuff on TV and from the pulpit. Double whammy.
See, the problem is your only an occasional preacher, your not a pastor, plus the world has its hold on you by being a member of the media. Stay in the media, you don’t need to be in the pulpit, not even occasionally, giving such dumb advice to God called pastors who are following God.
Hmmmm . . . . not sure how to take that.
This weekend I, as a normally non-football-watching person, actually managed to catch a bit of the Aggies stomping Alabama. I was putting a VCR tape in the player, and the TV just happened to be on the channel where that game was playing, at the end of the first quarter, where the Aggies were stomping Alabama 20-0. For some reason, I couldn’t help but stop and watch the Tide get rolled for a few minutes. I lasted until Alabama finally got their first first down (which took them until the second quarter), and then I went back to my VCR… Read more »
Was it something like the draw of a train wreck, Ben?
Something like that, Dale.
Though I’ll admit that if CB hadn’t been cheering Alabama so much, it would probably have had less of a draw.
1. Quite contentedly. 2. Probably. 3. No. 4. Tempting, but they’re just trying to get back at Rick Reilly. It will pass. 5. They’ll climb to the middle of the pack in a few years. Watch out for basketball though. 6. I don’t. 7. No. 8. Not at all. Continue to cheer for him; he was framed. 9. Comes naturally, I’m afraid. Live sports commentators have a difficult, no grace profession. 10. The number of times an NL pitcher gets hit by a pitch is directly proportional to his dirty behavior. Pitchers at the bat is pure baseball and keeps… Read more »
I wanted to believe that Lance Armstrong had been framed, but to believe that I’d also have to believe in the Easter Bunny, the second gunman on the grassy knoll, the black helicopters, that 9/11 was an inside job and that Ron Paul would have been a good president.