Boise State has made the ultimate offer to the college football world. They’ll play any top 10 team in the nation on its home turf. No strings attached. I’ll bet no one bites.
Boise State athletic director Gene Bleymaier is all but begging for a major opponent – any major opponent – to play his Broncos, particularly [...]
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Not scared of anyone
November 7, 2009Reality hits
November 6, 2009The Memphis Tigers have played their first exhibition game, a 98-68 victory over LeMoyne-Owen. I wasn’t there, but from everything I’ve read, this is definitely not a Memphis Tigers’ team that is going to go 33-4 again. We told ourselves when Coach X took the #1 recruiting class in the nation with him to Kentucky that we [...]
Quote du jour
November 5, 2009“Sometimes the Forces of Darkness defeat the Virtuous.” — Commenter on Beerleaguer regarding the evil Yankees beating the Phillies in the World Series.
Phillies season ends in defeat
November 5, 2009The Philadelphia Phillies lost to the evil New York Yankees in game six of the World Series 7-3. The good guys just ran out of gas. That’s all I can say. But even with defeat looming and playing on enemy ground, the good guys fought all the way to the final pitch. I can honestly say [...]
Life and times of a blessed Phillies’ fan
November 3, 2009I had a baseball discussion with an acquaintance yesterday evening, who also happens to be a Yankees’ fan, prior to the start of game 5. We were talking about how it’s so darn difficult to win anymore, given that there are now 30 teams in MLB, and every one wants the same thing.
It is certainly [...]
Trouble in paradise
November 3, 2009Well, someone needed to say it.
Phillies pitchers Brett Myers and Cole Hamels had a short but tense confrontation in the team’s clubhouse following Game 5 of the World Series, according to one witness, words that stemmed from Hamels’ recent statement that he was eager for his season to end.
As Myers walked past Hamels near Hamels’ [...]
To live another day…Phillies win game 5
November 2, 2009It wasn’t pretty, but the Phillies avoided elimination this evening, outslugging the evil Yankees 8-6. The Phillies jumped out to leads of 6-1 and 8-2, then withstood a furious New York rally in the 8th and 9th innings to send the series back to New York.
Chase Utley hit two more home runs tonight to tie Reggie [...]
Panic
November 1, 2009The Phillies were one strike away from going to the bottom of the 9th tied 4-4. They had finally tied it with two outs in the bottom of the 8th, with all the momentum on their side. But Brad Lidge couldn’t get that last strike. Instead, he gave up a single, a hit batter, another single, [...]
There are athletes, and then there are athletes
November 1, 2009Meb Keflezighi won the New York City Marathon this morning, covering the 26.2 mile course in 2:09:15. That means he averaged a 4-minute, 56-second mile, every mile, for 26.2 miles. Folks, running one mile in 4:56 is nothing to sneeze at. Doing that for 26.2 miles is pretty darn incredible.
American Meb Keflezighi wins NYC Marathon [...]
Titans get the monkey off their backs
November 1, 2009Finally, the Tennessee Titans are in the win column following their 30-13 domination of the visiting Jacksonville Jaguars. Chris Johnson rushed for 228 yards and 2 touchdowns, and Vince Young, starting for the first time this season, was 15-18 with one TD and no interceptions.
What a huge shot in the arm for the Titans to finally win [...]
Envy our past, fear our future
November 1, 2009Here’s a neat Memphis basketball video I found on YouTube while searching for the 2009-2010 video intro they use before home games. I don’t guess the video intro is up yet, but this will do until then.
The list of things I’ve never done in my life just got shorter
November 1, 2009The little guy and I ran across free tickets to last night’s Georgia Tech-Vanderbilt game. Having never gone to a Vandy game, we gladly took them. It was a good game until early in the third quarter. The stadium was about two-thirds full, although there were almost as many Georgia Tech fans as Vandy fans.
The [...]
Where have you gone, Cole Hamels?
November 1, 2009Last year’s NLCS and World Series MVP, Mr. Cole Hamels, is missing in action in the 2009 postseason. Last night, given three early runs to work with, Hamels had the opportunity to pitch the Phillies to a 2-1 edge in the World Series, and took a no-hitter into the 4th, but then it all unraveled. [...]
Seven reasons we’ll like John Pastner more than Coach X
October 30, 2009Frank Murtaugh has a terrific piece in the Memphis Flyer listing seven reasons why we’ll like Josh Pastner more than the previous Memphis coach.
Mr. Murtaugh, we already do like him more.
The Tigers: | Cover Feature | Memphis Flyer
A day late and a dollar short
October 30, 2009They call it “The Memphis Effect.” The NCAA has taken steps to prevent what happened to the Memphis Tigers basketball program earlier this year from happening again.
In other words, side deals can not be made, like Memphis’ former coach John Calipari did, offering kids a way out of their written commitment to a university if something happens [...]
Phillies stick to their postseason script
October 29, 2009For their third consecutive best-of-seven postseason series, the Phillies won game 1 and lost game 2, both on the road, falling to the Yankees this evening 3-1. Hat’s off to the Yankees’ A.J. Burnett, who shut down the Phillies’ bats, hitting the corners with amazing regularity and racking up a ton of strikeouts. But the Phillies’ hitters also helped him [...]
Memphis football reaches a new low
October 29, 2009It wasn’t so bad that the Memphis Tigers kept turning the ball over and chased themselves right out of Tuesday night’s 38-19 loss at the hands of East Carolina, nor that the game was televised on ESPN2. It’s not even so bad that the Tigers have fallen to 2-6. What is so awful is that [...]
Trick-or-treat
October 29, 2009Former Phillie Doug Glanville had an op/ed in the NYT yesterday that brought back memories of the time I dressed up as Pete Rose when I was 11 or 12.
This Halloween, pay attention to what kids are wearing when they knock on your door. Most will probably be dressed as Thomas the Tank Engine or [...]
Quote du jour
October 29, 2009“Turns out, 144 years after Appomattox, a kid from the South named Lee can beat the Yankees.” — Jeff Passan on the Phillies’ Cliff Lee
Lee is the Phillies’ leading man – MLB – Yahoo! Sports
