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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...
Why It Isn't Wrong To Attack The Recently-Departed JoePa
If there's one generalization that I've found applies to everyone in life, it's that no one truly knows how to deal with death. There really is no right way to address it, and a lot of times, people will only focus on the positive aspects of a person's life as a sort of memorial. On the one hand,...
Are WWE playing fast and loose with their Wellness Policy again?
A strange occurrence happened soon after Evan Bourne was suspended for 30 days due to a WWE Wellness Policy violation, which is believed to have been a drug test failure for synthetic marijuana. Bourne used his official WWE Twitter account findevan to retweet the latest damning article by author...
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...
Jay Cutler #85 in Top 100 list
No, not the NFL Networks much hyped and water-coolered about Top 100 list as voted by the current players, I mean the other one. The one being done by Sports Illustrated's NFL writer Peter King. He has Jay Cutler at #85 in his Top 100, the NFL Network has Tennessee defensive end Jason Babin at...
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...
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