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Mark Cuban Working on His Own College Football Playoff: Mark Cuban wants to create a playoff for Division I-A college football, and he's willing to offer schools millions of dollars to make it happen. He’s formed a limited liability company called Radical Football.
posted by bender to football at 08:48 AM on February 21 - 5 comments
Big Ten Conference Reveals New Logo and Honors Football History with Division Names and Trophies: The Big Ten Conference today made several announcements that complete a series of decisions prompted by the upcoming addition of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln as the conference's 12th member school. The conference revealed a new logo to be used for all sports beginning with the 2011-12 academic year and also unveiled names for its two football divisions and a list of names for 18 trophies to honor coaches, teams and student-athletes starting with the 2011 football season. The LEGENDS Division will include Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Northwestern, and the LEADERS Division will include Illinois, Indiana, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, and Wisconsin.
posted by bender to football at 02:08 PM on December 13 - 26 comments
Why CONCACAF Is Killing the Best Rivalry in North America: They're killing the most important rivalry in American soccer. That's [Grant Wahl's] unavoidable conclusion after speaking to Chuck Blazer, the general secretary of CONCACAF, who confirmed that he expects FIFA to approve a new regional qualifying format for World Cup 2014.
posted by bender to soccer at 02:30 PM on October 04 - 5 comments
2011 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: to begin with four first-round games as entire tournament to be nationally broadcast across four networks for first time. The Division I Men's Basketball Committee today announced plans for the 2011 NCAA "First Four" to showcase the expanded field for the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship.
posted by bender to basketball at 01:13 PM on July 13 - 1 comment
League announces 2000s NFL All-Decade Team: This decade's 53-player team is comprised of two quarterbacks, four running backs, one fullback, four wide receivers, two tight ends, four offensive tackles, four guards, two centers, four defensive tackles, four defensive ends, six linebackers, four cornerbacks, four safeties, two kickers, two punters, two kick returners and two punt returners. Current New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick and retired Colts coach Tony Dungy also were chosen for the team.
posted by bender to football at 12:14 PM on February 01 - 11 comments
The Falcons and the Vikings have been toying around with some new design concepts for stadia. I hope that Falcons idea is feasible--I would go there just to take a tour. (I would, however, leave that picture of the basketball configuration out of the slideshow. Ugh, I hate basketball in an enormous football stadium.)
posted by bender at 11:02 AM on May 15
Ottawa in 7
New York in 6
Chicago in 5
Los Angeles in 6
posted by bender at 10:05 AM on May 14
Pittsburgh in 4
Ottawa in 7
Washington in 6
Boston in 5
Chicago in 6
Anaheim in 7
San Jose in 5
St. Louis in 4
posted by bender at 10:23 PM on April 29
If the NFL doesn't work out for new Bengal Margus Hunt, there's always kiiking.
posted by bender at 01:35 PM on April 27
I think Bedard calls that pitch the Q ball.
posted by bender at 12:53 PM on April 12
So you're saying it's not that noteworthy then?
posted by bender at 09:59 PM on April 10
Whoops. The Detroit Free Press has some explaining to do.
posted by bender at 03:26 PM on April 10
"Tepesch became the first pitcher to post a line of 7 1/3 innings, four hits or less, and a run or less in his major league debut on a date as early as April 9 since the Cincinnati Reds' Wayne Simpson did so on April 9, 1970 at Dodger Stadium."
Ha! Despite 5(!) fairly arbitrary conditions, he still doesn't get to claim to be the only person to do that. If only he had pitched Monday...
I hate gerrymandered stats, but this one is so ridiculous that the amount of time it must have taken to look this up deserves recognition.
posted by bender at 02:27 PM on April 10
If the call had been on Monday instead of Friday, would that have been over the line for an April Fool's joke?
posted by bender at 03:10 PM on April 08
Speaking of the course, how can anyone not root for this guy to repeat as Masters champion?
posted by bender at 10:04 PM on April 02
Someday I hope to attend a game at Azteca, although I agree that the abuse shouldn't just be accepted as par for the course.
posted by bender at 10:03 PM on April 02
Here is some good footage from USA supporters at last week's USA-Mexico tilt at Azteca.
posted by bender at 12:45 PM on April 02
The back line got into a lot of tough spots, but they did a great job recovering. As I did not have particularly high expectations, I'm thrilled to come out of there with a point.
posted by bender at 09:10 AM on March 27
Wow. After the title and first line, I thought he was going to go a different way with that. More specifically, I thought it was going to be about UNM fans turning their backs on the team, but instead he is the one who bailed.
posted by bender at 10:54 AM on March 25
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