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The Shotgun/Throwdown: Tuesday (2/7/12) Edition
Welcome, By-Godders, to the Shotgun/Throwdown, WVU's nationally recognized best place for sports links, information, sophomoric humor and daily distractions. We're being brought to you today by Full Sail Wassail Winter Ale. Not counting chickens yet, but if you follow Casazza's logic in his...
Coach Bob Huggins Gets Career Win Number 700
School Win Totals Walsh 71 Akron 97 Cincinnati 399 Kansas State 23 West Virginia 110 Total 700 Congratulations Coach!!! We're so proud that you were able reach this historic milestone with the Mountaineers!!! NCAA Division 1 Basketball Coaches with 700 victories: Mike...
Chicago Soccer Smolderings - 5/21
There are several good reads on Chicago Fire vs. Philadelphia Union, Jon Conway returning to his Philly roots, some updates on non-Chicago soccer and a look at some sports stories across the spectrum. It's gameday Chicago. Time to take three points from Philadelphia. Chicago Fire Training Notes...
Tuesday Morning Dawg Bites: Lady Bulldogs Fall in Knoxville, Diamond Dogs' Opening Weekend Woes Explained
This date marks the anniversary of the birth of George Washington in 1732, the founding of the Phi Kappa Literary Society in 1820, and the establishment of the permanent (such as it was) government of the Confederate States of America in 1862, but it’s also a Tuesday on which you need to be aware...
Kentucky Basketball: Bryant Gumbel, Clumsy Oaf
In otherwise appropriate and sincere commentary on Real Sports about the great North Carolina Tar Heels coach Dean Smith, who has recently developed problems with his memory because of some kind of neurological disorder, Bryant Gumbel closed with this: "Unlike some of his peers, Dean Smith never...
Saturday Night Linkage: Tony Wroten, Dean Smith & Other Stuff
The Herald-Leader's always excellent Chip Cosby writes in his Sunday column on the impact of Randall Cobb and Derrick Locke on the UK football team, and the need for Kentucky to find a body to give the two workhorses a helping hand: Preach, Chip, preach! In case you missed it, here's ESPN's Dana...
The Strange Fantasies of Rick Barnes Fans
The Duke Basketball Report had an aside in their coverage of Roy Williams' Crowd Management that might strike people not familiar with the ACC as odd: A stray thought: UNC’s next game is at Texas (well in Texas anyway) against old nemesis Rick Barnes. Do you suppose there’s any...
Today in Sports History: January 29th
1/29/1968 - Rupp passes Phog Allen With an 85-76 victory over unranked Mississippi, Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp wins his 772nd game, passing Forrest "Phog" Allen for the most in college basketball. Rupp, who had recorded his 600th win exactly nine years earlier, had played for Allen back when he was...
Today in Sports History: January 1st
1/01/1902 - The first Rose Bowl The first postseason football game occurs as the Michigan Wolverines obliterate the Stanford Cardinal in the "Tournament East-West Football Game," or as it would later be called, the "Rose Bowl." The Wolverines, en route to a 56-game winning streak, were leading 49-0...
Sports Illustrated Goes Through the Recruiting Junk Mail Pile
Sports illustrated and Roberto Nelson, a guard out of Santa Barbara who will be enrolling at Oregon State this season, ran a little experiment this past year. They collected every piece of recruiting mail sent to Nelson over three years, and wrote an article about the 2,161 pieces he received, only...
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