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Making College Football Fair - The "Big Kitty" Rules
College football is not fair. I realize that might be some big revelation, an epiphany, to some of you, but college football has to be full of the most lopsided haves and have nots of any major sport anywhere. Go on, think of another sport where a school like Texas, that has all the money in the...
SHOCKING NEWS: KIRK COUSINS NAMED STARTER
After 12 games, today Mark Dantonio finally -- grudgingly, perhaps -- removed the "OR" designation that has vexed us all season long: your starting quarterback for the Alamo Bowl is shockingly not Kirk Cousins OR Keith Nichol. As reported first by Rexrode and later confirmed on the official site,...
You've Gotta Be Kidding Me
The quarterback question came up again -- will Keith Nichol continue to be weaved in? -- and Dantonio said what he's said all year: Cousins is the starter, it's important to give Nichol opportunity. "That's what the word team means to me," he said, "that everybody has an opportunity to...
CBS Sports Blog Poll Week 9 - What A Mess.... November Will Clean It Up
- Texas looked more impressive than I thought they would. There's not much standing in their way on the road to the National Title game. - November. It's November already. Where did the year go? There's still a ton of football left, and with no great teams this year it could be even more insane...
Royals Acquire Mike Jacobs for Some Reason
It was inescapable: KANSAS CITY -- The Royals acquired power-hitting first baseman Mike Jacobs from the Florida Marlins on Thursday for right-handed reliever Leo Nunez. Jacobs, who turned 28 on Thursday, should answer the Royals' need for a proven power hitter. He had career highs of 32 home...
Review: 'Paper Tiger' By Ted A. Kluck
Lyons Press sent me a pre-release of Ted Kluck's Paper Tiger before the start of the 2007 season. I started it, and it remained at the bottom of my book pile for a while. It's nothing new for me, my latest iPod is buried in there some where, despite my best attempts to find it. Maybe it's my lack...
Review: Meat Market - Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting
In "Meat Market - Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting", Bruce Feldman takes you inside the insanity that is college recruiting while simultaneously taking you inside crazy Cajun Ed Orgeron's head, whom you know from reading the EDSBS parodies. Author Bruce Feldman spent a...
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