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jones Top Ten 2011 Season in Review
Welcome to the first annual Jones Top Ten season in review. What follows replaces the annual bowl preview, largely because the bowl season sucks. Outside of a handful of games, any given Saturday during the conference season is more compelling than the almost endless exhibition of 7-5 versus 6-6...
jones Top Ten - Week Thirteen - 2011
If you had been with Lewis and Clark, Oregon never would have become a state. My wife the navigator does not generally put up with my smart-assery and this was no exception. If you had been making the turns for them, they would have ended up in New Orleans. The ubiquity of the GPS has eliminated...
jones Top Ten - Week 12 - 2011
Nonsense is my favorite multi-purpose catch-all word. My own aloha, I suppose. Smartly defined right out of the M-W.D., nonsense captures “foolish or meaningless words or actions.” But I think of it more broadly, as a general synonym for chaos and upheaval in my household. Children...
jones Top Ten 2011 Season Preview
Take a packet of salt. From a fast food restaurant I mean. Ever look at the ingredients? You would think "salt" right? Not quite. Well, salt and dextrose. And calcium sulfate, maybe even throw in a little yellow prussiate. Or some sodium silicoaluminate or potassium iodide, like mother used to...
A Tech Effect?
Technical Recruiting Analysis Suggests Technical Schools Bad at Recruiting It’d be one thing if their on-field performance lived up to the stereotype of the athletically-challenged engineer but that’s simply not the case. So then, what, if anything, explains the fact that Georgia Tech, Texas Tech,...
Husker Fans in No Holiday Mood
When Nebraska traveled to Seattle earlier this year to face Washington, over 20,000 faithful fans went with them to witness the Huskers 56-21 obliteration of the Huskies. The re-match between the two in next weeks Holiday Bowl in San Diego isn’t pulling that many fans out of their winter...
jones Top Ten 2010 Bowl Preview Spectacular
My fellow Texas fans: Please set aside your animosity and neurosis for a brief moment and revel in all that is good about the holiday spirit and the bowl season to come. For there is still football to be played. If that is not enough, Andy Williams will join us for a song later, plus Shields and...
Boise State-Va. Tech A Ratings Winner For ESPN
Boise's States last minute 33-30 win over Virginia Tech was easily the most-watched college football game of the weekend. The game pulled an overnight rating of 6.8 on ESPN. One ratings point translates into approximately 1.65 million viewers. The game pulled more than twice as many viewers as the...
jones Top Ten - Week One - 2010
La Crema Chardonnay, possibly the gayest three words I have ever started a college football column with, but here we are. A quarter-bottle of it remains on the top right shelf of my Sunday morning fridge. La Crema Chardonnay is the preferred opiate of the Junior League of Women Voters (assuming, of...
The Boise State - Virginia Tech Football Game: The False Kingmaker
The game between #3 Boise State and #10 Virginia Tech on September 6th, 2010 is being billed as the first true early season clash of titans (particularly with LSU in decline and UNC in meltdown) and the winner will have an inside track to voters' hearts, early season press, and an all-access pass...
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