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Texas Is The Best Coaching Job In The Country
I think we all know this intuitively. Go 4-7, launch a cable network with ESPN. POW. That just happened. It's the football off-season. This means it's time for people to start ranking things. Best stadiums. Best stadium fries. Hottest cheerleaders. Hottest cheerleaders in chaps. POW. That keeps...
When The Press Became The Media
There is a great valedictory from Frank Deford called Confessions of a Sportswriter in the latest issue of Sports Illustrated. It's well worth your time to read. I've touched upon some of these themes here before on Barking Carnival, most recently when Gary Cartwright tore into the modern sports...
Don't Bet On It!: Labor Day Weekend College Football Predictions Around the SEC
September is almost upon us, and with its arrival comes the start of college football season, which means the time has come for me to begin offering you my prognostications concerning the outcomes of actual games. I do this each week of the season in three increments, beginning with every game...
Monday Night Dawg Bites: Countdown to Kickoff Edition
Today has been a big day for Dawg Sports, but I wouldn’t want the groundbreaking news here at the blog to distract you from all the other events of interest in and around Bulldog Nation. If you’re like me, you’ve had a pretty overwhelming day, and you’re suffering from a bit of decision fatigue, so...
Sports Illustrated predicts Utah & Oregon in the Pac-12 title game
Sports Illustrated has Utah and SC tying for the Pac-12 South in their conference preview. However, with the Trojans under NCAA sanctions, in this scenario, it would be the Utes playing in the first Pac-12 title game against the Oregon Ducks, who they peg as the North champions. They expect the...
Deconstructing Dohrmann, Or When A Narrative Crumbles
~The lie consists only in the exaggerations, linguistic affectations and half-truths that try to pass themselves off as whole truths.~ José Saramago Narratives are funny things. The backbone of fiction, narratives provide a path for the reader, connecting events and characters, themes and...
CNN/SI Goes Live With New OSU Exposé
After several weeks of rumors and anticipation, Sports Illustrated went live Monday evening with a new article detailing the culture of the Ohio State football program. The article, found here, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author George Dohrmann, addresses player conduct and issues stemming...
Sports Illustrated Set To Speak Out? Rumors and Innuendo Abound
Second Update: Dave emailed me to clarify the origins of the story. 97.1 The Fan, Bucknuts' media partner, reported the information on air and Biddle repeated it through the tweet below. Update: SportsByBrooks is refuting the original report, saying that no piece has yet been written or is even in...
Don't Bet On It!: Week 14 College Football Forecasts for the National Games of Interest and Around the SEC
A pitiful 4-3 mark in last week’s SEC predictions dropped me to 52-13 for the season in conference forecasts, while a middling 3-2 ledger in last week’s national games of interest doomed me to limp into the final weekend of the regular season sporting a 36-22 record in non-SEC prognostications....
SI Confessions Of A Sports Agent: WSU Prominently Featured
Sports Illustrated is running a feature centering around an agent's confessions in this week's issue. The feature centers around Josh Luchs, a young agent who was looking to break into the business in the early 1990's. The piece focuses on his tactics, including paying many prominent West Coast...
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