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Big Time College Athletics: The Taxman Cometh

Posted by srr50 on May 20th, 2009 under Basketball

Over the past 40 years, the concept of a student-athlete representing his college in athletics has been reshaped until their were two new categories: Revenue sports (football & men's baskeball) Everything else. The Congressional Budget Office recently looked at the big-time athletics programs at NCAA institutions and decided that the connection between those programs and their Universities is as weak as Henry James' grip on reality. The CBO put out a report Wednesday that at least 90 Division
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Texas/Missouri Post-Mortem

Posted by Scipio Tex on October 19th, 2008 under

I can't think of a more dominating half of football. Let's get into it. Offense Our QB is a 28 year old Joe Montana Quantam Leaped into a Texas uniform. There, I said it. When your QB goes 29 of 32 with two batted balls and a drop, throws with the accuracy of an English dart pro, uses his mobility in a way that suggest
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Your Week 3 Big 12 Weekend

Posted by Scipio Tex on October 17th, 2008 under Uncategorized

I am currently 8-4 ATS. This is solid work, explicable by basic probability theory. The law of large numbers will catch up with me soon and I'll be unmasked for the fraud I am. Until then, let's live the lie together, shall we? Kansas @ Oklahoma (-19.5) Will Bob Stoops allow a post-Texas hangover? Will he link Venables' headset to a random ham radio frequency and tell his players to disregard his
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College Gameday in Austin?

Posted by BRAGGonUT on September 3rd, 2008 under Football

ESPN announced yesterday that Chris, Kirk, Lee, and Desmond (how does he still draw a paycheck?) are going to be in Gainesville for the Miami-Florida match-up. That should tell you how shitty this week's games are since this is not 2001 and Florida is favored by 3 touchdowns. That will be Florida's 28th appearance on College Gameday which leads the country. Here is the Top 10 list: Rank School Shows 1. Florida 27 2. Ohio State 22 T3. Florida
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View From The North Endzone

Posted by srr50 on September 1st, 2008 under Football

52-10 will look pretty damn good from any angle in DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium-Joe Jamail Field-Taco Bell Jumbotron, but the intitial impression from seats dead in the middle of the new north endzone addition, is that it is a great place to watch a game from. You are close enough to the action that the players don't look like pieces from the old electric football game, and high up enough to give you a coach's film view