All Entries in the "NCAA" Category
Kayla Braud’s great grab and double play
It’s not often you see highlights of college softball, unless it involves Jennie Finch or two players from the opposing team carrying an injured girl around the bases after she somehow hurt herself on her game winning home run trot. However, Alabama’s Kayla Braud may have had the Play of the Year against Mississipi State [...]
My “to Petrino” post, circa 2007
Everyone’s going to speak ad nauseam on this Petrino firing. I’m going to choose to abstain. I’m also rarely the guy who plays the “I predicted this!” game. I’m not going to here either, as pretty much every sports fan got a feel for what Bobby Boy was about several years. Just this once, though, [...]
VIDEO: Fans at Petrino rally say Easter demands forgiveness (p.s. we like winning football games)
Arkansas cares a lot about its football program. So, when the administration is contemplating the future of your head coach…a head coach who’s compiled a 34-17 record and won two bowl games…who’s increased his win total every year he’s been at the helm…who’s coming off an 11-2 season capped by a Cotton Bowl win…well, you [...]
Northwestern linemen attempt to catch punts
It’s easy for fans to rip their team’s favorite return specialists when they fail to do what they’re being paid or asked to do – namely, catch the ball. However, for anyone’s who’s actually tried to snag a legitimate punt, it’s no easy task. Forty or so yards…plenty of hang time…ample opportunity for the wind [...]
The Anthony Davis hype train has officially jumped the rails
Bill Russell. Wilt Chamberlain. Tim Duncan. Hakeem Olajuwon. Patrick Ewing. Lew Alcindor. All-time greats. Legends. An exclusive club of hoops-defining big men. Apparently, they already need to make room for a new member — a 19 year-old kid who’s played one season of collegiate basketball. Yes ladies and gentlemen, the Anthony Davis hype train is [...]
Thursday Tourney action tough to stomach
I was fairly excited. Home relatively early on a Thursday evening. A full slate of meaningful tourney games. Spread out nicely. Forget what I said about college basketball. It’s on, right? Unfortunately, it was on. And it was awful to watch. One of the interesting side effects of having a young child at home is [...]
Remember when Indiana was 6-25? Tom Crean’s Hoosier resurrection
What’s that? You’ve heard this story before? I don’t care. It bears repeating for anyone who’s taken their eye off the college basketball scene for a few decades and assumed that the Indiana Hoosiers appearance in the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 is just the same old, same old. It’s not. Not in recent years. In [...]
No Expectations for the Fab-less Five
News broke this afternoon that Syracuse starting center Fab Melo is not eligible for the tournament in what is perhaps the first time that NCAA tournament brackets blew up before the NCAA tournament even started. Cuse fans are coming to grips in the Fab Melo version of the five stages of grieving (hyperlink to http://cusepulp.blogspot.com/2012/03/five-stages-of-fab-grief.html). [...]
Farewell Mistress Bracket
Originally published in March of 2008. Believe it or not, I’ve stayed strong since. Although it remains a struggle each and every day. Hell hath no fury like a bracket lover scorned… She’s been a part of my life since my early youth. She took me in. Seduced me with her beauty. Tauntingly dangling that [...]
Defending Doug Gottlieb (well, not really)
It started at about 1:00pm yesterday. I’ve never quite understood when or why people decide to share their thoughts on Facebook for all the world to see, but it was pretty clear what had happened. Doug Gottlieb struck again. The history goes like this: Gottlieb began as a college hoops analyst for ESPN around 2004, [...]
