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2.4.12 Saturday College Hoops Open Thread
Saturday means college basketball all over your cable guide, and we're here to provide space for you to discuss the events of the day! Things get started with College GameDay coming to us live from Columbia, Missouri with a feature game between #4/4 Missouri hosting #8/8 Kansas. From there we get a...
1.28.12 Saturday College Hoops Open Thread
We've got another Saturday, so we've got another Open Thread for you to discuss the day's goings on! Things get started on ESPN with College GameDay from Tucson, AZ, with the feature match up of Arizona hosting Washington. The Huskies are currently stuck in a 4 way tie for 1st place in the Pac-12...
1.20.12 College Basketball Saturday Open Thread
It's Saturday again, so that means we've got a fresh Open Thread for you to discuss the day's games in. Things kick off with College GameDay live from... This can't be right. [double checks] Yep. ESPN is broadcasting College GameDay live from the Petersen Events Center in Pittsburgh, PA. Ok, Pitt's...
8.29.11 Weekend Recap
#12/#13 Marquette women's soccer finished off the weekend by securing the 2011 MKE Cup with a 2-1 win over NR/#23 Long Beach State. Maegan Kelly got things started quickly by registering her second goal of the season in the 5th minute off a Kate Reigel pass. The Golden Eagles kept the pressure on...
How the Mountain West Can Become an Automatic BCS Qualifier
The ongoing agitation for a playoff, while not without its intelligent and principled adherents, nevertheless is in some quarters largely a knee-jerk reaction born primarily of greed and envy. Last night’s Fiesta Bowl once again exposed the hypocrisy of this position, as two supposedly disheartened...
Kyle Gets Conciliatory: An Encouraging Word About Boise State's Place at the Table
The recent Congressional hearings on the Bowl Championship Series are as unlikely to produce anything except talk as the Congressional hearings on steroid use in major league baseball, but give the grandstanding representatives their due: they did produce talk, at least. One of the more poignant...
The 2009 Banana Peel List, Part I
Now that it's less than a month until Selection Sunday, we're slightly overdue to review the races in 22 of the 23 conferences that can will probably only receive one bid to this year's tournament. The 23rd is Memphis (or FedEx U, based on this story) and the 11 Dwarves, and since that race is...
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