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Lane Kiffin Can Never Eat His Favorite Burger Again
The Pac-12 Coaches's Q&A is a treasure-trove of awesomeness, awkwardness, and pathos. The biggest highlight came from everyone's favorite wunderkidcoach, Lane Kiffin. What's your favorite restaurant anywhere? Litton's in Knoxville ... the burgers. A man cannot be separated from his favorite...
UCLA's "Sports Code" Moment(s): Carnesale, Bleymaier, Guerrero, Dorrell & Riley
Sports Illustrated's Joe Posnanski recently wrote a column called "The Sports Code." It was a take off on a Jake Gyllenhaal movie called "Source Code" in which Gyllenhaal has to travel back in time eight minutes before a bomb is going to go off, find the bomb and dismantle it. I didn't see the...
Quack Fix: Baseball heads to WSU, getting to know Oshay Dunmore
Is this gonna be your last quack fix? Who knows? Not even the joker the thinks the world is gonna end! But just in case, I've tried to make this one extra special. ATQ's Kris Anderson has an article at GoDucks.com on the youth of the baseball team. While the season hasn't gone as plan, the Ducks...
Nick Saban, Urban Meyer on Board for ESPN BCS National Title Game Telecast
ESPN likes to bring in high profile guests for its telecasts whenever it can, and its choices for guest analyst for the BCS National Championship Game fit that bill. Nick Saban and Urban Meyer will join the usual suspects for the broadcast of the game. It's not the first time something similar has...
Brother v. Brother: Debating the Ducks' national title hopes, fears, & the Pac-10's most overrated team
Everyone has an arch nemesis. Mine just happens to be my older brother. But our mutual hatred (okay, maybe that's an exaggeration) has led to many an entertaining discussion through the years. And because much of the debate has centered on college sports, and the Ducks in particular (we're both...
Pac-10 Photostories: Starring The USC-Furd Air Show And Oregon State Beaver Fever
For the Cal-UCLA photostories, click here! Check out last week's Pac-10 Photostories too. Photos courtesy of Getty Images. Furd 37, USC Trojans 35 Oregon St. Beavers 29, Arizona Wildcats 27 Arizona St. Sun Devils 24, Washington Huskies 14 Oregon Ducks 43,...
Don't Bet On It!: Week One College Football Forecasts for the National Games of Interest
To tell you the truth, I’ve been looking forward to college football season for so long that I started work on my week one forecasts back during the dog days of summer. Fortunately, I did such a fine job of predicting the outcomes of this weekend’s national games of interest back then that I see no...
SB Nation Pac-10 Preseason Predictions: Oregon, Oregon State Favorites
The wait is finally over. No more World Cup. No more LeBron and Favre hogging your sports screen with their self-pitying soliloquies. No more having to pretend you care about things like cycling, horse racing, figure skating, rollergirls (although rollergirls are AWESOME) and whatever else appears...
Pac-10 Coaches Caption Contest
Can you caption this photo of the Pac-10 coaches and commissioner Larry Scott in front of NASDAQ after ringing the opening bell? What are they thinking at this moment? (Photo from this Ted Miller writeup on their whirlwind tour). After the jump, your winner of the Jim Harbaugh caption contest! ...
Monday Morning Required Reading Will Survive
OK. Independence Day is over. We all had a fantastic time enjoying freedom with backyard barbecue and low-grade incendiary devices. And now we're halfway through the summer and this hellish, seemingly never-ending off season. Now we can sort of see the end to it all; the SEC Media Days are just a...
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