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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008It’s a hard question to answer: Which is going to be more chilly, the weather Tuesday in this year’s edition of the Humanitarian Bowl in Boise, Idaho or the attitude of players from the Maryland Terrapins, upset that they aren’t playing as the ACC representative in the Orange Bowl against the Cincinnati Bearcats? A team [...]
Notes From The Margin - Papajohns.com Bowl Edition
Monday, December 29th, 2008This Monday’s matchup between the North Carolina State Wolfpack and the Rutgers Scarlet Knights at the Papajohns.com Bowl features two teams that halfway through the 2008 season looked to have absolutely no shot at making a post-season appearance. With the Wolfpack standing 2-6 and Rutgers 1-5 heading into the month of November, grit, tenacity, [...]
Notes From The Margin - Emerald Bowl Edition
Saturday, December 27th, 2008In what essentially amounts to a home game for the California Bears, Jeff Tedford’s team travels to San Francisco to take on a struggling Miami Hurricanes. in Saturday night’s Emerald Bowl The Bears, featuring the fifth-best running back in the nation in Jahvid Best, will look to take advantage of a UM defense that coughed [...]
Notes From The Margin - Champs Sports Bowl Edition
Saturday, December 27th, 2008The city of Orlando hosts the Big Ten’s Wisconsin Badgers and the ACC’s Florida State Seminoles in one of the better early bowl season matchups for 2008. Wisconsin will as usual look to rely on a heavy dose of a physical rushing attack (212 yards per game), headed up by junior P.J. Hill and blossoming [...]
Notes From The Margin - Meineke Car Care Bowl Edition
Saturday, December 27th, 2008This year’s Meineke Car Care Bowl features the two dynamic offenses of the North Carolina Tar Heels and the West Virginia Mountaineers. UNC comes into the host city of Charlotte with an 8-4 record overall, 4-4 in the ACC, and featuring a high-powered passing offense led by quarterbacks T.J. Yates and Cameron Sexton and record-breaking [...]
Notes From The Margin, Bowl Edition - The Las Vegas Bowl
Saturday, December 20th, 2008In this world of electronic information, a simple search of any of the plethora of bowl games being played in the 2008 post-season reveals hit after hit of prognosticators dissecting players, trends, and statistics in hopes of coming to a safe conclusion on which team should outperform their competition and, subsequently, carry the momentum [...]
Bradford wins Heisman Trophy
Sunday, December 14th, 2008When I got the text the Oklahoma QB Sam Bradford had won the Heisman, I thought back to all the articles I read ahead of him grabbing the starting job last year.
In retrospect, he sounded like another Tebow.
Shoots par golf. Good basketball player. Solid A-grades student. Gets his pick of the Sooner female population. Walked [...]
What I saw in Atlanta: Why Tebow should win Heisman
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008I wanted to pass the mike to an old friend Mick from San Antonio. We went to high school together and in fact I was his offensive coordinator to his head coaching spot for Powder Puff football, so the sport was always a connector for us. Facebook connected us recently and he put up a [...]
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