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Posted by HenryJames on September 5th, 2008 under Football
Today is Colt McCoy’s birthday and also the nine year anniversary of the day he quit drinking…Dr. Pepper.
“My dad challenged me, going in to play football,” he said. “We had this guy motivational speaker come in and said, if you want to be your best, you won’t drink (soda pop). You’ll drink water or Gatorade.”
Can you imagine what type of motivational speaker travels to Tuscola?

It’s doubtful that the Big 12 Conference wants to publicize the fact that McCoy is no longer a Pepper. A couple of weeks ago they extended their sponsorship agreement making Dr. Pepper the official soft drink of the Big 12 through the 2011-2012 athletic year.
ursa major wrote a new blog post: Baylor v. Kansas State – Preview ago
Loss in Waco = Win in Kansas City?
Tonight the Bears get their second crack of the year at Kansas State. The first time we played K State in Waco, we managed to lose the game despite being more efficient than K State offensively. While K State did outshoot us by 9%, and outrebounded us 36-32,
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Kevin Berger commented on the blog post Guard Play: You Have it or You don’t Have IT ago
Thanks, St. Emilion.
That’s a good choice, but UNC was so good that Ty didn’t stand out as much as he should have.
Mateen Cleaves, Khalid El Amin, Ty Edney, those were some other tournament war daddies that come to mind along with Lawson.
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jonestopten wrote a new blog post: There’s Something about Avery… 10 minutes ago
Trips Right’s 33 volume Decline and Fall of Texas Basketball has not only been required post-disaster therapy for the Longhorn basketball fan (what is your hourly rate, anyway?) but also merits combat pay from BC’s executive management.But there is one organ left in the vivisection of Rick Barnes that keeps bugging me: his arguably atrocious
ghostofagroundgame wrote a new blog post: Arshavin is the Best 29 minutes ago
Andrey Arshavin has a website where he takes questions from his fans and, apparently, types his own responses. It is AMAZING.
There is really almost nothing that I can add to this, but it’s so great it deserves its own post. Among the highlights — Arshavin giving marriage advice, Arshavin discussing whether he considers rain to
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Magnus Bleuveigner commented on the blog post Notre Dame Football: Images of the Decade (2000-2009) 35 minutes ago
Thanks Whiskey, but I’m too busy tryinig to verify if Colt and Shipley were indeed room mates.
It’s a joke. They always talked about him boxing, though I agree, he’s a tough dude. I loved the way he fearlessly returned punts straight up the gut at 100mph.
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texasengr commented on the blog post Rick Reilly Is A Walking Amber Alert 36 minutes ago
I absolutely hate Rick Reilly. He’s the single most annoying ESPN “analyst”… by far. He would be at home on CNN.
But since the following sentence appears to be right on the tip of your tongue the entire article, I’ll go ahead and say it. Fuck liberals. Look no further than the UK if you
Kevin Berger wrote a new blog post: Guard Play: You Have it or You don’t Have IT 37 minutes ago
The best guards are puported to come from Chicago, Illinois because in the windy city, you either score at the goal, or you risk having our J pushed two feet off the mark thanks to the 30 mph winds whipping off Lake Michigan.
To that point about guard play, watching the Big East tournament
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Ag_in_TX wrote a new blog post: Mike Leach with some VERY hot sports opinions 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
Mike Leach after game speeches
Wow. Orangebloods got ahold of some videos of Mike Leach’s after game speeches. Good Lord. More f-bombs than a Quniton Tarintino movie. After the Baylor game – language is highly NSFW:
“We thought we were too good to play Texas Fuckin’ A&M”
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Kevin Berger commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Baylor: Post-Mortem, kinda 1 hour, 24 minutes ago
milksteak, I don’t think that’ll be a problem.
ghostofagroundgame commented on the blog post Rick Reilly Is A Walking Amber Alert 1 hour, 25 minutes ago
Yeah man, Northside v. Southside is old, old news, as is the bas blood there. Booker T is up around Acres Homes, and Yates is in the 3rd Ward.
Magnus Bleuveigner commented on the blog post Rick Reilly Is A Walking Amber Alert 1 hour, 26 minutes ago
Or worse….
ghostofagroundgame commented on the blog post That Silly Away Goals Rule 1 hour, 31 minutes ago
Yeah, but here’s the thing — you have to have some way to resolve draws. Endless extra time is impractical, because these games are played in the midst of regular league and domestic cup features — you just can’t play that much extar football. Penalty shots are even more arbitrary than away goals.
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Jorgrama commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Baylor: Post-Mortem, kinda 1 hour, 36 minutes ago
DO you guys think Brown will be back with the team next year or do you think there’ll be some fallout in general?
P.Drez commented on the blog post Tuesday Champions League: Quick Rundown 1 hour, 46 minutes ago
Ha, well put. I don’t think Arsenal will survive the quarterfinals unless they draw Sevilla. The field is too strong for them.
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P.Drez commented on the blog post That Silly Away Goals Rule 1 hour, 48 minutes ago
Mistakes from nerves should not be a reason to unjustly allow one goal to count as two. It goes against the true laws of the game. No other sport has a “point” (goal in this case) scored by one team counting for more than what it would for the other team. It
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baylorbeer commented on the blog post Baylor v. Texas – Postgame 1 hour, 54 minutes ago
Tweety and Lace are passionate. They are great team leaders. I love it when I see them jabbering creole at UT, showing they are absolutely not intimidated even though for some reason everyone else in the country thinks they should be. This includes the officials – John Higgens really needs to get
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Hiphopopotamus commented on the blog post Big XII Tourney: Day Three 2 hours, 7 minutes ago
Ginger: This team is just so content most of the time, though…drives me crazy.
I thought yesterday was the perfect example of why we could win it all, or get clipped at any time, as I’ve been harping for months now. If a team is fighting (and every team in the tourney will be), we just
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Hiphopopotamus commented on the blog post Big XII Tourney: Day Three 2 hours, 7 minutes ago
Ginger: This team is just so content most of the time, though…drives me crazy.
I thought yesterday was the perfect example of why we could win it all, or get clipped at any time, as I’ve been harping for months now. If a team is fighting (and every team in the tourney will be), we just
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Hiphopopotamus commented on the blog post Baylor v. Texas – Postgame 2 hours, 9 minutes ago
Good stuff, ursa.
I really enjoy watching this Baylor team play. Tonight’s game should be especially fun.
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Hiphopopotamus commented on the blog post One down, two to go 2 hours, 13 minutes ago
Is it just me, or does Kansas have a really annoying tendency (for fans and opponents, I would think) to just play with teams for a while and struggle along before finally going in for the kill? I can’t decide how much of this they control and how much of it is inconsistency.
It’s not just
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Hank Dudek commented on the blog post Top 10 Defensive Lapses 2 hours, 24 minutes ago
Scip.,
Love it. We need some firearms to stop guys from running out on us. Thanks for the correction. Just don’t correct my spelling and sentence structure or I will send Ipowers out to your house with a firearm.
Hank Dudek commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Baylor: Post-Mortem, kinda 2 hours, 31 minutes ago
I am with ipowers on this one. I would rather go down with guys who give a crap then to let guys play who are so selfish they jog back on every defensive fast break . It just comes down to the character of the team and the chemistry. Hamilton and Brown
gingerballs commented on the blog post Big XII Tourney: Day Three 2 hours, 41 minutes ago
The Hawks…well, they’ll just be trying to win, but not for any particular reason other than that they enjoy doing so.
Perfect phrase to capture how much this means, not that much.
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gingerballs commented on the blog post Big XII Tourney: Day Three 2 hours, 45 minutes ago
Quick, staring contest, me and you.
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Magnificent Bastard commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Baylor: Post-Mortem, kinda 2 hours, 49 minutes ago
Unless iPhone’s have an auto-substance feature (or auto-unwad?), I don’t think it really makes a difference.
Hiphopopotamus commented on the blog post Big XII Tourney: Day Three 2 hours, 58 minutes ago
I forgot to mention it above, but I agree on Harris.
If Bryan Davis beats us, I’ll be very disappointed in our front line.
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Blake Stansbery commented on the blog post A Friendly Wager: Hog Tickets for an SEC Tournament Championship 3 hours, 1 minute ago
Man it was a tough season after it looked like they had things heading in the right direction.
The main positives I am taking from this year is that Powell is going to be a great player, and that Nobles and Bryant started to show some good improvement and will be contributors.
I am disappointed in Farmer
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Trips Right wrote a new blog post: Basketball Bets 3/12 3 hours, 4 minutes ago
Big Slate. Keep in mind some of these bets are listed twice because I added some cheddar to them after more research. The first bet is an Ohio State to win the Big 10 tourne future…2 to 1.
good luck with your action…
TO WIN 2010 NCAA BIG 10 CONFERENCE
03/12/2010 @
Trips Right wrote a new blog post: College Bets 3/12 3 hours, 5 minutes ago
Big Slate. Keep in mind some of these bets are listed twice because I added some cheddar to them after more research. The first bet is an Ohio State to win the Big 10 tourne future…2 to 1.
good luck with your action…
TO WIN 2010 NCAA BIG 10 CONFERENCE
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Ag_in_TX commented on the blog post Big XII Tourney: Day Three 3 hours, 10 minutes ago
I’ve been looking forward to tonight’s game since the conclusion of our last one. As I posted on my blog, I think A&M will be hurt by the loss of Dash Harris for this game. He may or may not be healthy enough to play, but he should not play either way.
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kriess said:
September 5th, 2008 at 10:34 am
So Mr Foley…what happens when you drink Dr. Pepper? Well Colt my boy…it just means you’re going to end up living in a van down by the river!
Big XII WarBlog said:
September 5th, 2008 at 10:43 am
That’s neat and all, but he’s still a cum-guzzler.
BRAGGonUT said:
September 5th, 2008 at 10:56 am
He believes in No Soda, No Gut.
Sasha_Is_A_Longhorn_Dog said:
September 5th, 2008 at 11:29 am
I love that boy.
EyesOfTX said:
September 5th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Just one more reason for me to like Colt. I also am a former Dr. Pepper addict – like Colt, I had a sixpack a day habit until I went on the Atkins diet about 8 years ago. I haven’t had one since.
Willy Lump Lump said:
September 5th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
the best part of quitting drinking dr. pepper is having an occastional dr. pepper.
it’s straight out of requiem for a dream.
Woody Bombay said:
September 5th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Ken Stabler, Don Meredith and Billy Kilmer all just committed suicide so they could be buried and then roll over in their graves.
Eric said:
September 6th, 2008 at 6:36 am
I replaced my 6 pack a day of diet Coke with a fifth of Wild Turkey and my life has become immeasurably better.