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Don't Bet On It!: Week Three College Football Forecasts Around the SEC
By posting a 7-1 record in last weekend’s conference forecasts, I improved my SEC ledger for the season to 17-2, which attests more to the weakness of the opposition faced by the league’s member institutions than to any particular acumen on my part. Lest I be mistaken for a prognosticator of any...
No One Told Wally Butts Jacksonville Was Hotter For Us Than For Them
The following passage appeared in Fumble, James Kirby’s account of the scandal (and subsequent landmark defamation case) arising out of The Saturday Evening Post’s allegation that Alabama head coach Bear Bryant and Georgia athletic director Wally Butts had conspired to fix a football game between...
If Tiger Talked to FHP on December 1, Why Did We Learn It on December 30?
WESH-TV in Orlando, FL, reported yesterday afternoon that Florida Highway Patrol did eventually meet with Tiger Woods after being shunned away by Elin Nordegren, Mark Steinberg, and Woods' defense attorney Mark NeJame on three consecutive days. The meeting, according to FHP spokesperson Sgt. Kim...
UPDATE: Furman Bisher Posted the Tiger Story Because He's Bored (And Now Tells You To Get Out)
If you have an email account, read a message board, or patron a blog, then you've seen it. It's what is supposedly the real account of what went down at 2 am on the day after Thanksgiving. I first read it on a University of Maryland (GO TERPS) message board on December 23, posted by a guy who...
Time To Give Thanks...
It seems Thanksgiving and the end of football season gets here a little quicker each year. It's almost unfair that baseball and basketball can linger on forever, yet the game we love most comes and goes within a matter of weeks. So here we are again, the end of another football season and the...
Don't Bet On It!: Around the SEC
I knew I was going to regret picking Ole Miss to beat Auburn, but I did it, anyway, so I wound up going 4-2 in last week’s SEC picks to strand me at 51-9 for the autumn. Do I even have to say it anymore? Don’t Bet On It! Here is this week’s Southeastern Conference slate of games, about which you...
Why the Georgia Bulldogs Will Reclaim the State Championship from the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in 2009
That 34-14 thing may have been one of Pepper’s few errors since he came rolling back to the old campus campaigning like a circus ringmaster. A Georgia Bulldog is no elephant, but he never forgets when it comes to something like Tech. . . . It was gloating time. . . . The Technicians and ilk...
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