• Ed Thomas, a popular Iowa high school football coach who saw many of his players make it to the NFL, was shot & killed in the school’s weight room this morning.
• Road tripping, Wisconsin style: Driving home drunk in a golf cart.
• Break out the blindfolds – Oregon’s new football uniforms are here.
• Terrell [...]
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Movie fans were no doubt grief-stricken at the news over the weekend that Sony Pictures axed Money Pit Moneyball, the Billy Beane biopic that, for some reason, was to star Brad Pitt. Maybe it was because they figured there’s no way a movie about sports stats would draw people to the theaters. Maybe it was [...]
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• It’s finally here: Anna Rawson’s first TV commercial as a GoDaddy Girl.
• Tom Brady & Gisele Bundchen are six months away from unleashing Superbaby onto our world.
• Count Brendan Haywood among those who aren’t pleased about Donte’ Stallworth’s light sentence. But Plaxico probably isn’t as judgmental.
• Wimbledon is worried about potentially massive match-fixing.
• Hard [...]
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Depending on who’s doing the talking, the advent of statistical analysis in sports like baseball has been either one of the greatest developments ever or one of the worst. Regardless of your stance on the matter or whether you think a computer wrote the book Moneyball (like Joe Morgan), the newfound love of numbers has [...]
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When the smoke finally cleared on last night’s 18-17 win over the Waterloo Warriors, the University of Toronto Varsity Blues and their 2,562 fans got to celebrate something they haven’t witnessed in the past six years: a football victory.
It was a pretty good first impression for new coach Greg DeLaval – this was his first [...]
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