Categories
College Football

Death of a Priest and a Salesman

Rarely do four tenured coaches leave their schools in the same year.

First it was Barry Alvarez, who announced in July that this, his 16th season, would be his final at Wisconsin. Then it was Bill Snyder, who retired after 17 years from Kansas State just this past week. But there is no word yet on Fisher DeBerry of Air Force and Ken Hatfield of Rice. The previous infringed on the rights of his players and should be fired, while the latter made derogatory comments three years ago without paying the price.

Categories
Jacksonville Jaguars

Jaguars could start becoming a threat

After Jacksonville’s thrashing of Baltimore by a score of 30-3, the Jaguars show that they could really be a legitimate threat this year.  The reason why they really could become a legitimate threat is…

Categories
NBA General

NBA Power Rankings Vol 1 – November 17 2005

Surprise is a word most basketball fans are accustomed to by now. After a couple of weeks of the 2005-06 season, most of the standings are a surprise. There are a few teams that fans had huge expectations for along with a few teams that fans had no hope for. The Sacramento Kings, New York Knicks and the Seattle Sonics are a few of those teams that already find themselves at the bottom of the standings and whoever would’ve thought the Clippers would be 4 games over .500? Let’s check out the first week of power rankings powered by Courtside Magazine in order to see which teams are rising and which teams are sinking faster than the Titanic.

Categories
College Football

The Coach of the Century

Before Bill Snyder graced Manhattan with his presence in 1989, Kansas State was an insult to abysmal.

The Wildcats had not won a game since October 18, 1986. They had not won a road game since October 26, 1985. They had not won consecutive games since September 24, 1983 and three consecutive games since the beginning of 1982. They had not played in a bowl since losing to Wisconsin on December 11, 1982 in the Independence Bowl, then the weakest of all the bowls. They had not won consecutive road games since October 27, 1979. They had not been ranked since November 14, 1970. They had not beaten a ranked team other than by forfeit since October 31, 1970. And they had not beaten a top ten team since October 3, 1970.

Categories
NFL General

NFL Week 11 Picks November 20 2005

Last week wasn’t such a great week to pick games. But really, did anyone expect the Bucs, Vikings and the Packers to win on the road? It sure made for a great week of football watching. We’ve got some upsets baked in this week so let’s see if the trend continues.

As always we have a podcast to go along with the picks this week. If you enjoy the podcast, please go to the yahoo directory and vote for us.

If you want to see how well we did last week against the experts from ESPN, Fox, Sportsline, etc, check out this great spreadsheet from Tokar.

Categories
Detroit Lions

The Star Studded Trio- 1st Round QB- and aging Tight End

Can anyone tell me what is going on with the Detroit Lions? Three 1st round wide recievers, a 1st round quarterback, and an aging skills declining tight end. We’ll just grab up this bunch, because aside from these highly touted yet underachieving youngsters, the rest of the Lions look not half bad. Let’s start with Charles Rogers, the famous eggshell collarbone who continues to frustrate fantasy football players season after season with injuries, and now inconsistent play. The guy has tremendous potential. The year he came out of college he was touted as evenly skilled as the great Randy Moss. The only thing similar I’ve seen between the All Pro great and the collarbone is their ability to frustrate people. What was that? Oh, Roy Williams. I have enormous respect for this guy. A tremendous rookie season in which he blew out of the gates fast and in my eyes did take the league by storm, he kinda faded down the stretch and for some reason that has carried into this season. Oh, and Mike Williams. This guy can flat out play. Trust me. Everyone knows this, teams and GM’s know this, and any defensive back he ever faced in College knows this. I’m not concerned with his production just yet, as I do have faith that his time will come. 3 first round receivers, yet a combined measely 445 yards and 2 td’s. And let’s not forget Marcus Pollard, a great Tight End 3 or four years ago, a serviceable one now. He gives them a new dimension, yet doesn’t have that game changing ability of a Tony Gonzalez or Jeremy Shockey. What about Kevin Jones? No I didn’t forget him, but this kid can run with the best of them and I don’t care if you have Walter Payton or Eric Dickerson on your squad, you can’t run effective if your team can’t pass the ball. Plain and simple.

Categories
Indianapolis Colts

A Hex on Peyton’s House

With an easy 31-17 win over the Houston Texans last Sunday, the Indianapolis Colts improved to 9-0, moving them past the halfway point of their journey to an undefeated season and a permanent place in the record books. Looking at the Colts’ upcoming schedule and admiring the team’s stocked offense and mean defense, I don’t envision anyone stopping the Colts on their way to a 16-0 record.

Categories
College Football

Impressed- depressed and neutral- our thoughts on Week 11 of college football

Hey, we’re back. Who did we love, hate, or not any feeling about through Week 11 of this wonderful, wonderful college football season?

Categories
College Football

Heisman Watch 9th Edition

The Heisman race is getting bigger than ever. The top candidates are going to have to do everything in their ability to play amazing. The front-runners are getting more and more coverage and as the season comes down the back stretch, we could be watching one of the best Heisman races in recent history.

Categories
Miami Dolphins

Dolphins’ QB woes continue

For Miami Dolphins fans who long for the glory days of Dan Marino, the suffering continues.

Gus Frerotte is the latest in a lengthening list of should-be backups who have somehow found themselves under center on a full-time basis for the Fins. Fielder, Huard, Griese, Feeley – it’s been a revolving door of quarterbacking mediocrity since Marino retired following the 1999 campaign.