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KC Star: Missouri has offer to join the SEC
According to a KC Star report from earlier today, Missouri has been offered a spot in the SEC, but the SEC would rather wait for the Big 12 implosion than have the Tigers join immediately. The news is obviously huge. However, there's a caveat. The SEC denies inviting Missouri. My personal opinion...
9.9.11 Weekend Preview
#7 Lisa Philbin & #12 Britney Scott await a return to action. Men's soccer returns to the site of the games they split last weekend to finish their road trip with a match against UW-Milwaukee tonight at 7:30pm at Engelmann Stadium. UWM comes into the annual Milwaukee Cup game with a record of...
Conference Expansion Rumors
Just when it looked liked the Houston Chronicle had quashed the newest rumors that Texas A&M is going to the SEC (in reality the Board of Regents was meeting to discuss the Longhorn Network), Jon Wilner and SportsByBrooks brought the topic back to the floor last night on Twitter. What remains clear...
Confidential: From the Desk of Dan Beebe
The Case for the Big 12 Conference Well, a couple months back this was probably on his desk... A few weeks back Texas Tech's blog, I Am The 12th Man, posted a link to 60 pages of emails from the since averted crisis. Many of the emails were merely press releases and relevant articles; however,...
Post-pocalypse, or Is It Postpone-ocalypse?
Dan Beebe wooed Texas (with Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and Texas Tech close behind) with promises of more unequal revenue sharing and Longhorn TV rights to boot. It was a gutsy move that almost definitely saved the Big 12 from being cannibalized by its neighbors. In the process the Big 12...
How Cold are Big Ten Football Games?
Big Ten football fans are used to hearing about cold weather. Television announcers and sports commentators often use words such as frigid, tundra, cold, and frozen as descriptive terms for Big Ten football. Even within the Big Ten, some fan bases will proclaim rival schools to be far colder than...
How Do You Like Your Basketball?
One of the great things about the NCAA Tournament is watching all sorts of teams we don't get to see throughout the year. ESPN has helped to change this but it is still true for the vast majority of college basketball fans. If you're a Kansas fan, you've probably seen a lot more Big East than you...
Changes to the Rose Bowl Game selection Process
This is interesting... From The AJC. (Hat Tip BSD) Utah, Boise State to the Rose Bowl? It could happen soon: Over the course of the week I found out that there is an interesting little nugget in the new BCS contract with ESPN, which will begin after the 2010 regular season. In past contracts...
The Big 10 word with The Chicago Sun Times' Herb Gould
We’re just a couple of bloggers, new bloggers at that, so our credibility is minimal. In order to get some real "stuff" on here, we’ve reached out to some esteemed beat writers who actually know what they’re talking about. With the Big 10 tipping off their league schedule tonight, now is a good...
Michigan fallout continues
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- The fallout from Michigan's stunning loss to Appalachian State continued Sunday, as coaches, players and fans reacted to the Wolverines' defeat Saturday."I lost a debate Friday night to that bimbo from South Carolina," coach Lloyd Carr said. "Maybe I should have seen that...
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