Someone is volunteering to sell a Tennessee championship ring.
Well, SEC championship.
OK, SEC East championship.
The gridiron jewelry up for sale on eBay is from the 2004 Vols season, and apparently is made of 10-karat gold & furnished with cubic zirconium designed to look like diamonds.
The seller will only reveal the player who previously had the ring to the winning bidder. But a Knoxville TV station has a good idea of who it was.
At the Chick-Fil-A Bowl, Auburn upended Clemson 23-20 in OT on a 7-yard run by Tigers QB Kodi Burns, breaking the hearts of Tigers fans. But even though the Tigers won, Tigers fans can take solace that their orange & blue-clad warriors did their best.
Unfortunately, the Chick-Fil-A Bowl is just another reminder of how corporate sponsorship has creeped & seeped into the collegiate non-playoff post-season. It’s one thing to attach your name to a game, like the Tositos Fiesta Bowl, but to swallow it hole, like a delicious chicken sandwich available every day except Sunday?
For almost 40 years, this game was known simply as the Peach Bowl. Even up until last year, the event was still called the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl. But a new $22 million sponsorship soon pitted out the Peach.
How many other corporate-named bowls can you match up with their original titles?
PLEASE OH PLEASE TAKE BROADCASTER CORSO INSTEAD! The free-for-all to find a new West Virginia football coach is on and the CHARLESTON (WV) DAILY MAIL has several candidates in the can - including Terry Bowden.
Bowden would appear to be the frontrunner, with the D-M reporting: “The WVU graduate told the Daily Mail in October he wanted to return to coaching next season and that he wanted to replace (Rich) Rodriguez if he had left for Alabama last year.“Bowden has been off the sidelines since 1999, when he was forced to resign at Auburn. The program had been in steady decline since he lead the Tigers to an 11-0 record in ‘93.
The son of FSU coach Bobby Bowden has since been an ABC analyst radio analyst (NEVER trust an official website!) and (what else?) motivational speaker. If WVU is looking to pluck someone from the airwaves, we’re actually rooting for them to take Lee Corso instead.
WAKE’S GROBE 3RD STRAIGHT COACH TO CALL OFF HOGS: After going through a pair of orange Tigers for their head coaching job, Arkansas was zeroing in on a Demon Deacon. Now the Razorbacks are just back at ground zero.
TOMMY LIKES POSSUM RARE, WITH A SIDE OF SPARE TIRE: As we suspected, the numerous Arkansas main media reports that Tommy Tuberville had agreed to take over the Razorback football program were bogus, and probably planted by wishful thinkers in the Hogs’ athletic department.
We’d like any person outside of Joplin, MO., who has taken a “planned hunting trip” to Arkansas that didn’t involve a roadkill roadside snack to please contact us at 1-866-PIG****.
And we had no idea that Tuberville was in such dire financial straits. Anyone who needs to spend a week in Arkansas rooting out wild boar in order to get a raise really needs to consider another line of work. But we suppose it could be worse - at least he didn’t have to do it with Bob Knight.
TUBERVILLE RUMORED TO BE RAZORBACKS’ NEXT COACH: Arkansas didn’t have to go far to nab its next football coach. They didn’t even have to leave the conference:
KNWA-TV reports that Auburn’s Tommy Tuberville will become the next Razorbacks coach. Sources are telling the station that the Tigers’ coach will soon be leaving one SEC school for another.Ex-Hogs coach Houston Nutt just did the same thing, when he left Fayetteville and quickly took the Ole Miss job.
ARKANSAS SPORTS 360 further reports that an official announcement may not come until Saturday, as Tuberville is hammering out details of his contract.So, Tommy’s now off to Fayetteville, and Houston’s already landed in Oxford, where Tuberville had previously coached. Does this mean Ed Orgeron is headed to the Plains, thus completing the coaching circle?
