tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84438582011-04-21T14:52:33.543-04:00A blog about sports broadcasting from the great state of Florida. They report. I decide.TSBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14107435758677189286noreply@blogger.comBlogger671100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443858.post-1126291887405332552005-09-09T13:55:00.000-04:002005-09-09T14:51:51.573-04:00

Michael Vick is understandably a popular subject this time of year. A new NFL season awaits and ever-growing expectations mount on his shoulders. Everyone asks the same question: Will this be the year for the Falcons?Earlier this week Skip Bayless took his turn on writing about how Vick must learn to pass in order to win. Of course, Bayless writes at least one column a month on either Michael

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Quote of the day (and week, maybe month, and possibly season) comes courtesy of ESPN.com's Power 16 rankings. The entry for FSU this week simply states: "You know, suddenly Chris Rix doesn't look that bad." I haven't laughed that hard in a while, and yet, it's completely true.In addition, I have to agree with SI's Stewart Mandel. Neither FSU nor Miami belong in the top-15. I suppose after NC

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FSU 10, Miami 7; the real losers: the viewers at home.1. Low-scoring games can be exciting. They can be classics. Last year's UF-FSU game was an example of this with a final score of 20-13. This game, however was an offensive wasteland. Just brutal to watch.With both teams starting freshmen quarterbacks, you knew there wasn't going to be much offense. However, it seems like neither team has much

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Well, after their ninth straight win, the New York Yankees have broken .500 and are gaining ground in the AL East. Of course, it helps that those nine wins came entirely against Oakland and Seattle, two light-hitting clubs sharing the AL West basement at 15-23. Each would still be under .500 if you discounted their losses to the Yankees in their latest stretch.Once again, unbelievably high

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I'm sure that when Randy Johnson forced a trade from the Diamondback to the Yankees, he thought that he was going to a contender and his days of pitching complete game and despite only giving up one or two runs still losing were over. Turns out he was wrong. Last night Johnson pitched a two-run complete game and still lost to Toronto's Roy Halladay who threw a shutout. Incidentally, the Yankees

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I'm starting to get the itch again. I got extremely busy, then got other interests. I think the Orioles snapped me back into it. More on that later. I noticed between the last post and now, over 600 people have hit the page, mostly from searches and the "Next Blog" button on the Blogger bar at the top. I managed to get two Konqueror hits from a FreeBSD user. One recent hit was even from a

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Yesteday was a bad, bad day for the sports world. First, it broke that Jason Giambi had testified before a grand jury that he used steroids through BALCO after his 2001 MVP season after having used them earlier in his career. His brother Jeremy did as well according to the testimony. Never mind the fact this was an illegal leak of sealed grand jury testimony. But it was a bombshell. Suddenly, it

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It's been too long. If it wasn't already official enough, Steve Spurrier is starting to gather his staff. He's retaining at least three South Carolina coaches, including the recruiting coordinator (a smart move considering he doesn't know the area and hates recruiting). He also has brought his son Steve Jr. over from Arizona. The difference between that and Lou hiring Skip Holtz and Bobby hiring

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By now everyone has seen the Pacers-Pistons fight. Everyone involved should share some blame, but the players deserve more than the fans. There's a difference between being a punk and throwing punches at anything that moves. Supposedly, it's all about respect, but fighting doesn't gain you respect. Tim Duncan is probably the most respected man in the league because he takes a beating every night

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FSU payed the price for idolatry. I knew that before the game they were going to hold a ceremony to rename the place "Bobby Bowden Field at Doak Campbell Stadium." I figured it would include that being painted somewhere inside the stadium, which it was. What I didn't know was that it included a 30-foot high stained glass window (making it one of the 5 largest stained glass windows in the

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Today is a day to right wrongs. Today is a day to return favors. I have waited impatiently for today for an entire year. What do you call an FSU grad with a resumé? An optimist. A year ago, a game was stolen out of the Gators' hands, against their biggest rivals. Mostly in the first half, a series of 5 to 6 horrifically bad calls on fumbles went the 'Noles ways. Obvious fumbles by FSU players

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The current top-6 of the BCS standings: 1. USC 2. Oklahoma 3. Auburn 4. Cal 5. Texas 6. Utah The biggest arguing point right now is whether or not Auburn should be in the top 2 or not, and whether USC or Oklahoma deserve their positions. Really, though, there's a far more interesting subplot developing right now. The rest of the top-10: 7. Michigan 8. FSU 9. Boise State 10. Louisville Yes,

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According to those who think they know, Steve Spurrier has agreed in principle to coach South Carolina next year assuming that Lou Holtz retires. I'm not sure what to make of this. Though Holtz has been hinting all year at retiring, at heart he's an old softy and it will be hard for him to say goodbye to his players. Plus, I don't think it's agood fit for Spurrier. The players who are there were

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Since the Gators won the South Carolina game 48-14, a lot of people are going through don't-know-what-you-got-'til-it's-gone syndrome with Ron Zook. Someone even wrote a reader editorial for the campus newspaper that the Gators should rehire Zook. It does seem now with cooler heads that firing Zook after a loss to a bad team was perhaps a bit hasty, and that the team might be coming together.

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Another homecoming weekend has come to a close. It included such traditions as the parade down University Avenue and a mediocre Gator Growl (the world's largest student-run pep rally). It included a beat down on a bad SEC East team. All of the elements were there indeed. The Gator's victory over South Carolina was not all that unexpected, though some self-styled trendy analysts had South

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Right now the baseball winter meetings are going on. All of the general managers and agents meet here in Florida to catch up and discuss business. It's the time when most major free agent signings go on, basically. ESPN has put together a top-50 free agents list, and there is some bad news (Carlos Beltran will probably end up a Yankee). However, there is some good news as the experts there seem

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Anybody got a spare $10,000? The University of Iowa has put its football stadium scoreboard up for auction. Not only that, but they put it on eBay. I realize that if they're going to replace it, they would probably want to get something for the old one, but eBay? Wow. They even will take personal checks for it. The description says "It has recorded some of the most memorable victories in football

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Well, I thought I was done talking about the UF head coaching job until it gets filled, but I was wrong. First, the position has been listed on the University Athletics Association website right along with two computer positions. The job requirements include a bachelor's degree, something I have not gotten yet, so unfortunately I can't apply. Second, Ron Zook has finally started to stick up for

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After a long weekend up in Nashville, it's good to be back in Florida. I just wish I could take the weather from up there and bring it back down here. It was good to see the Gators get back on the right track despite a first half full of turnovers and more questionable calls against Florida. It's almost as if after all of the furor over the ACC refs last year, the SEC refs wanted to remind

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I really don't have much to say right now other than there won't be any kind of formal post today or tomorrow as I will be traveling to Nashville for the Florida - Vanderbilt game. We'll see about Sunday, depending on how late I get in and how much real work I will still have to do. Friggin' real world. Primoz Brezec did have a pretty good night overall with 15 points and 9 rebounds, and even

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Today Steve Spurrier pulled his name from the running for the UF head coaching job. He explained that he meant what he said about being done with coaching at the University of Florida when he resigned in 2002, and he repeated his line that he thinks a coach should stay at one school no longer than 10-12 years. He also said he is not actively looking for a coaching job. This is a very good thing

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The inaugural season of the New Magic got off to an exciting start last night with a 93-92 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks thanks to a last-second layup by newcomer Steve Francis. He was back in Stevie Franchise form with 26 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists after seeing his scoring average plummet under Jeff Van Gundy in Houston. Cuttino Mobley had 12 points on a dismal shooting night, hitting

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I've been really busy today and it will only continue, so this is going to be short. Tonight really is the start of the NBA season with nearly all of the teams playing. So far the Magic are falling behind the Bucks, unfortunately, and the lineup keeps getting shuffled around quite often. It will probably be like that until Johnny Davis can really get a handle on which conbinations work well.

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This blog is not political and will stay that way, but if you don't vote, you forfeit your right to complain for the next four years. Today marks the start of the NBA 2004-2005 season with a whopping three games on the schedule! You have a rising power versus the defending champs (Houston at Detroit), a track meet (Sacramento at Dallas), and a hypefest (Denver at L.A. Lakers). Overall, they

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Today the Orlando Magic traded G Keith Bogans to the expansion Bobcats in return for F Brandon Hunter, an undersized bruiser who Charlotte acquired from Boston in the expansion draft. At 6'7" he is not big enough to play power forward that often (especially with Dwight Howard filling that roll) so he will fight for small forward minutes with Grant Hill, Pat Garrity, and Hedo Turkoglu. This trade

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When did the NFL become college football? The Chiefs and Colts combining for 1,095 yards was a bit predictable (and is further proof that those great Tampa defenses were not the work Tony Dungy but of Monte Kiffin and Rich McKay), but eight teams broke the 30 point barrier, and Jake Plummer of all people threw for 499 yards. The biggest news was that the Patriots finally lost, breaking their 21-

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I thought the game would be close, and thanks to the third quarter it was. I thought the Gators would have opportunities to win, and they did. Unfortunately, they came up short once again, falling to rival Georgia 31-24. While winning 13 of the last 15 against Georgia still is a remarkable stat to fall back on, I left the game today feeling numb. In the end, penalties killed the Gators today,

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The Florida-Georgia game this year could go either way. Florida may come right out a shock the likes of struggling David Greene and his Bulldogs. Greene is not having the senior year he envisioned, D.J. Shockley has never had a good down against Florida in his career, and David Pollack may find out just how hard it is to tackle Ciatrick Fason. The Gators, fighting for their coach's good name, may

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Well, AutoDraft didn't do all that bad of a job, I must say. I feel good about my team. I don't have too many outright superstars, but most of my players are looking good for this year. I have a lot of consistent guys, which is comforting too. I only ended up with one true stiff, Chris Kaman, so I dropped him and hopefully I'll get Charlotte's Primoz Brezec, if he clears waivers after another

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Well, Steve Spurrier is interested in talks with the University of Florida about returning to the head coach position. While I have mixed feelings about him returning (and am leaning towards not wanting him back, but that's another story for another time), the job apparently is officially his for the taking, as if it ever wasn't. While Bob Stoops has issued a statement saying he's not leaving

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The Boston Red Sox just won the World Series. History was made and erased tonight. If there ever was a curse, it's gone. You'd have to be an idiot to believe they overcame all they had to in order to get to this point. Really, for me it's not all that foreign to think of Boston as the champs. Sure, I know the history and I've heard the stories. However, Boston has been a good team for most of my

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Forget everything I wrote yesterday about the World Series. It's over. The Cardinals may win tonight (not likely), they may win tomorrow night (even less likely), but it's too little too late. I was trying to inject some suspense into the Series, but yes, Agent Smith, I hear the sound of inevitability, and it is the Red Sox being the 2004 World Series Champions. It's a mere formality at this

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In addition to the turmoil in the Florida football program, oh yeah, the World Series is going on. Curt Schilling likely has made his final start of the year, which might end up being bad news for the Red Sox. Sure, the Cardinals have Tony LaRussa managing them and that's always a disadvantage for you in the playoffs, but it's no sure thing that Boston will uncork the champaigne at Busch Stadium.

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Ron Zook will no longer be the coach of the Florida Gator football team following this season. I didn't think I'd write that sentence with certainty in the middle of a season. I didn't think I'd write it for a few years even. What I think doesn't matter though. I'll go ahead and say it our front: I like Ron Zook. I think he's a good guy who is good for a football program. However, he has proven

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I have no words for today's UF loss to Mississippi State. Actually, that's a lie. I have a lot of words for it. I will do my best to pick the most coherent ones. Just about all that is certain now is that we won't have to worry about Ron Zook anymore after this season. More on that later. This loss was inexcusable. As far as I could tell, only two players showed up ready to play: RB Ciatrick

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Congratulations to the St. Louis Cardinals for winning the NLCS and getting to face the Boston This-Is-Our-Years in the World Series. Their slumbering bats woke up, and their three MVP candidates came up big with Jim Edmonds' walk-off in Game 6, Scott Rolen's big homer in Game 7, and Albert Pujols winning the series MVP. Despite the momentum behind the Red Sox right now, the Cardinals still have

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On a chilled night in late October, on the grandest stage of stage of them all, the Boston Red Sox overcame precedent, predictions, and history itself in vanquishing the New York Yankees in decisive manner, 10-3. Boston has turned into Bedlam. The Sons of Sam Horn can barely contain themselves. The Red Sox win the pennant. Over the Yankees. In Yankee Stadium. After going down 3-0 for the series.

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It's not enough that the Yankees and Red Sox are rematching last year. It's not enough the history that the teams share. They each must make everything dramatic. They just can't make things easy. Yankees race out to a 3-0 lead despite all predictions and common sense, then two games for 26 innings, two consecutive blown saves by Rivera for the first time ever in the playoffs, Keith Foulke walking

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I now have a contact link on the sidebar becuase I now have an e-mail account especially for this blog now: spbroadcast@gmail.com. Many thanks to the Spread Firefox people for getting me the GMail account. Please continue to leave comments about posts using the commenting form, but to contact me specifically, to request me linking to you, or anything else along those lines, please use the e-mail.

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In a trade that looks perfect for both sides, the Seattle Seahawks have traded for Oakland Raiders WR Jerry Rice. The Raiders get only a conditional 7th round pick, but get to unload an unhappy living legend and a bad PR situation. While Rice is well past his peak, he still can be useful in the NFL, especially on a team like Seattle that has receivers who have trouble with dropping balls. While

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Once again, Daunte Culpepper has proven himself the dominant quarterback in the NFL. Granted, I could probably throw for at least 100 yards on the Saints defense, but then again, no one else in the league has put up 425 yards and 5 TDs on them this season. Half of the game was without Randy Moss too, showing that Daunte is the straw that stirs the purple Kool Aid, and the runaway front-runner for

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No broadcast yesterday as my Internet was inexplicably down all day. I don't know why it is gone or when it will return, so updates may be intermittent until TSB World Headquarters is back up and running. Beating Middle Tennessee State 52-16 realistically does nothing for Florida as far as regaining some respect nationally or getting back in the SEC East race, but it was exactly what the team

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Tonight is Midnight Madness night all across the college basketball world. It's a nice way for schools to get people excited about the upcoming season, and make a few bucks on a night of selling concessions. The whole reason why it exists is that prior to the season there is a set amount of time that coaches and players are not allowed by the NCAA to be on the same basketball court at the same

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Once again, Miami falls behind big but stages an improbable 4th quarter comeback to win. Last year it was Florida, this year a scrappy Louisville team that just gained a lot of respect on the national stage. Louisville is ranked 17th this week, but based on their performance tonight the Cardinals really should move up in the polls. I don't know what it is about Brock Berlin, how he can throw for

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Well, two nights of LCS baseball down, and the Yankees are enjoying a 2-0 lead with the Cardinals taking a 1-0 lead over the Astros. I didn't expect New York to win the first two games, mainly because I didn't think Schilling's ankle was in as bad of shape as it is. He's going to need surgery, and if it wasn't the playoffs he'd be headed to the DL. Not good news for Boston. Pedro Martinez did

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As noted, the Braves lost in the postseason again, confirming once again how they are one of the weakest dynasties in sports. So many division titles in a row, so little to show for it. The streak should have ended in 1994 when the Expos had the best record in baseball, but the strike killed that year (and a good portion of the love for baseball in Montréal) and allowed the Braves streak to

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Sad news struck the baseball world today with the passing of Ken Caminiti at the too-young age of 41 due to a heart attack. He was one of the best players of the '90s, with his best season coming in 1998 for the Padres in which he was named MVP and led the team to the World Series. He was plagued by substance abuse problems however, and regardless of the autopsy results it can only be concluded

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One error that I have just corrected is that somehow on the Full Disclosure page I left off that I tend to root for Texas Tech football. I have ever since the Kliff Kingsbury days, and I even attended their Tangerine Bowl win over Clemson two years ago. Basically, the Red Raiders take the pass-first offense that I grew up watching the Gators run, and they take it a step further. It makes for some

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Unfortunately, the Braves won again, forcing a Game 5 agains the Astros. Hopefully, Houston can close it out and have a nice moment celebrating its first-ever postseason series win before getting annihilated by the Cardinals, who closed out the Dodgers today. Or, as ESPN.com's front page sidebar says at time of posting, "The winner [of the Houston-Atlanta series] gets the Cardinals, who are

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The polls are out and Florida is consensus #22. That's about right, I think. Updated list of possible unbeatens: Auburn Boise State Oklahoma USC Utah Wisconsin the Virginia-Miami winner Wisconsin moves on earlier than I thought it would due to how impressive the win over Ohio State was. There are other teams that are currently undefeated that aren't on the list because it's not probable that

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Today goes down as one of the worst sports days of my life. It started out looking good with Oklahoma shutting out Texas, but it rapidly went downhill. Oh, let me count the ways: -Georgia got sucked into Tennessee's Vortex of Mediocrity that the Gators also fell victim to, played down to the Vols' level, and found a way to lose. This made it infinitely harder for Florida to get to the SEC title

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The bad news first: the Empire won again, putting my OBTFTP on the ropes. Johan Santana likely will be enough to win Game 4, but Radke is going to have to to better if he plans on pitching the Twins into the LCS in the Stadium. C'mon guys, fight the power! The Red Sox went ahead and swept the Angels. Everyone knew if was going to happen, so they went ahead and decided to make it interesting by

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Back to baseball. John Lieber proved me wrong by outpitching Brad Radke. I really thought the Yankees would return to the House that Hubert H. Humphrey built down 0-2, and almost did thanks to Devil Rays and Blue Jays cast-off Tanyon "How Did I End Up on the Yankees?" Sturtze, but a questionable decision by Ron Gardenhire to leave Joe Nathan in too long allowed the Yankees to come back and win

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A Tale of Three Rookies A basketball league is beset by lagging excitement and attendance when three rookies are all selected in the same draft and instantly infuse new energy and interest in the league. Rookie 1 was selected first overall, and it was never a case of where Rookie 1 would go, but which team got the first overall pick. Rookie 1 has skills reminiscent of Magic Johnson and

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In terms of good news, the Yankees lost yesterday and the Braves are in the process of losing today. The three teams I hate the most in sports are: 1) anything FSU, 2) the Braves, and 3) the Yankees. I quite possibly might be the only human alive who doesn't like the Yankees, but dislikes another team more. Facing Johan Santana just isn't pleasant at any time these days, but especially not when

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Wow, this is a late NFL wrap-up. That's what being busy can get you. The Jags did indeed lose to the Colts. Poor Nick. In order to beat the Colts, you must score more than 20 points, a feat that Jacksonville has yet to do this year. It was a courageous defensive effort for the Jaguars, but Indy 'D actually showed up too and that made the difference. The honeymoon is officially over for Joe

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Two more teams besides West Virginia fell off the potential unbeaten list, with Fresno State's upset loss to Louisiana Tech (there goes ESPN College Gameday's visit to the Fresno-Boise State game) and Ohio State's shocking upset loss to Northwestern. Especially damaging for the Buckeyes is the fact that it counts as a Big 10 conference loss, not just a shameful loss to a team they should have

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Well, that wasn't exactly what I meant when I said it'd be uncomfortably close until the Gators put it away in the fourth quarter. It was more deja vu to last year. Still, Chris Leak got his game back which is an encouraging sign. The +3 turnover margin also was also excellent. Ciatrick Fason didn't run wild like I thought he would, but then again he only had 18 carries this time (as opposed to

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Believe it or not, Florida's game against Arkansas tomorrow scares me more than anything else on the Gators' remaining schedule. LSU doesn't have a quarterback, Georgia doesn't have an offense, and Chris Rix doesn't have a clue (or possibly a job depending on how Wyatt Sexton plays). The Razorbacks, however come a week before LSU, giving the option of a look-ahead game, and they have a mobile

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Over the past year, I've tried to broaden my sports horizons to some leagues I've never paid attention to before. For instance, I almost watched an entire hockey game during the (final?) Stanley Cup Playoffs. Hey, the IHL called it quits after a Florida team (Orlando Solar Bears) won the title. Anyway, that also includes the WNBA. It's not really as bad as a lot of people who hate the WNBA would

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What the Anaheim Angels have done this year is truly remarkable. If at the beginning of the year you told me they would win the AL West, I would not have been surprised at all due to the offseason acquisitions of Vladimir Guerrero, Jose Guillen, Kelvim Escobar, and Bartolo Colon. Then the injuries came. The poster child of underrated stars, Garret Anderson, was the first to go down, and was out

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So far 2004 has been marked by battle after battle of Red vs. Blue, and I'm not talking about you and your friends playing Halo. Yes, it is election season which means everyone on earth begins some kind of ad/publicity campaign based on an election theme. ESPN.com has started their own deal with the Purist Party vs. Progressive Party election, with an objective to determine what kind of fans the

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No broadcast yesterday as life was disrupted by the arrival of Hurricane Jeanne... Before getting into the NFL, perhaps I should mention that I could be wrong about USC being in the top tier with Oklahoma. The Trojans' win over Stanford was wholly unimpressive, and at the beginning of the season I was not so sure they'd steamroll everyone due to a lack of depth at receiver. Reggie Bush made up

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What a game last night from Boise State and BYU. I knew it was going to be good, but wow. Only a missed field goal in the final minute for BYU allowed BSU's streaks to continue. Apparently, QB John Beck had a separated shoulder which took away the Cougars' deep threats and led to the losses to Stanford and USC (that, and USC is in a class above everybody along with Oklahoma), so that was the

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This weekend does not look too promising for getting a lot of good college football games. Iowa-Michigan and Clemson-FSU appear to be the only ones really worth watching, but each of those four participants have taken turns looking really bad. This could get brutal. The best game of the weekend might actually be tonight's game, BYU and Boise State on the blue turf at 10 pm Eastern on ESPN. BYU

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30-28. Just the look of that is disgraceful. It's been nearly a week, but I can't let it go. Another loss for the Florida Gators due to disgraceful officiating. "But maybe they should have made the field goal in the third quarter. Or covered over the middle in the fourth. Or this. Or that." Or maybe, the refs could have ran the clock correctly. All football requires is doing enough to win.

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Instead of beginning with some kind of dumb introductory post, I'm going to start this thing off with a "Full Disclosure" page. Writing about sports is incredibly difficult to do without bias, especially when doing sports opinion like I intend to do. So, to make things easy, I'll go ahead and spell out what I like and don't like, and hopefully this will help explain me and minimize confusion.

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