Remember the glory days of 2008, when the Tennessee Titans were 10-0 and looked to be a surging AFC power? They had a killer defense and two strong young running backs, and it seemed like they were only going to get better as the playoffs loomed. Well, those days are gone.In their past four games, the Titans are 2-2. Their victories were over the Lions and Browns, two teams that might have
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Big 12 Teams Play No Defense, Sooners' Dominance Based on Skewed Statistics
Posted on 7:01 AM by ergeg
Oklahoma is hanging its claim on a shot at the national championship based in large part on the fact that they have scored more than 60 points in each of their past four games. It’s evidence, says coach Bob Stoops, of momentum and superiority. We won’t dispute that the Sooners are swamping their opponents, but do points mean dominance when you play in a conference where nobody plays any defense??
Monday, December 1, 2008
Musburger's Misquote of Famous Rickey Aphorism Leads Weekend Media Hits
Posted on 5:37 PM by ergeg
Brent Musburger bit the big one over the weekend. While broadcasting the Oklahoma-Oklahoma State football game on Saturday night for ABC, dumb ol’ Brent misquoted the great baseball executive Branch Rickey. Trying his darndest to be “eloquent,” and make a relevant quip germane to the game action, Brent burst forth excitedly with this gem, “As Branch Rickey once said, ‘Luck is the residue of...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
The Tuesday Morning Quarterback: NFL Week #12 Winners and Losers
Posted on 1:49 AM by ergeg
The beat goes on, but at the moment we're no closer to declaring anyone officially in the playoffs yet. What is official is that Monday Night Football's Tony Kornholer remains an alien presence on the airwaves. And we finally figured out why this sports media loser is a worthless POS. It's not that he doesn't really know anything about football (even though he doesn't), or the fact that his dour
Monday, November 17, 2008
The Tuesday Morning Quarterback: NFL Week #11 Winners and Losers
Posted on 11:01 PM by ergeg
Time to check in on the progress, or lack thereof, of NFL teams. Maybe four squads—Titans, Giants, Panthers, Cardinals—can be said to be definitely zeroing in on playoff berths. Otherwise, there are serious shades of gray still left out there. There are plenty of contenders, but an equal number of pretenders. Here’s a summary of what everyone did this past weekend, and where they all look to be
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
MNF Still Sucks, But It's Not the Game That's to Blame
Posted on 2:45 AM by ergeg
Did you watch Monday Night Football on ESPN the other night? Did you hear Tony Kornholer being a consummate, uninformed and boring ass? Did you cringe a little when Mike Tirico went into his high-pitched "soft-male" pseudo-thoughtful observations? Did you think Ron Jaworski (aka "Jaws") went overboard on the macho-man scale, with his "insider" meathead talk about how coaches who are former NFL
Lincecum Gets Cy; Lidge Gets Jobbed
Posted on 2:19 AM by ergeg
Congrats to Tim Lincecum, the amazing, and highly entertaining, San Francisco Giants hurler who won the National League Cy Young Award on Tuesday. Lincecum deserved this honor, and it's nice to see the baseball writers paying attention to high achievement on a team that otherwise achieved little and merited little attention. Lincecum is awesome, without doubt. Cases could have been made for
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