Mar 01
Jay Paterno tweeted, and then deleted the tweet you see above. In an attempt to make a joke about infallible NCAA leader Mark Emmert, what he really did was remind everyone of his infallible father Joe Paterno. And of course, people quickly let him have it for it. MORE…
Jan 30
The rivalry between the Texas Longhorns and Texas A&M Aggies was arguably the best in college football before the latter school left the Big 12 to join the SEC in 2012. This past season marked the first time since 1915 that the schools didn’t play each other on the gridiron and it appeared it might …
Jan 09
“It was kind of nice,” she told the Associated Press on Tuesday. Legendary ESPN play-by-play man Brent Musburger found himself in a bit of hot water on Tuesday for his audacious act of going on the air during Monday night’s BCS national title game and admitting that a hot woman was hot. Here’s what Musburger …
Jan 07
The divisional playoffs are set and hockey is back. Those are just a couple of things that The Stack is excited about on this Monday morning. The wild card round certainly wasn’t as exciting as we’ve seen in the past. To be frank, it was quite boring. The divisional playoffs, however, should be very good. …
Jan 07
It could easily be the most watched college football game of all time: the BCS National title game, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. the Alabama Crimson Tide. The media hype has been ridiculous; ESPN and the rest of the press have been talking about this game forever. Imagine what the publicity for the Super …
Jan 04
The SEC is playing in its ninth BCS Championship Game, the most of any conference in the history of the modern championship game. The only time that an SEC team lost in the national championship game was to another SEC team. What is it about this underdog conference in Dixie, in a land away from …
Jan 02
Hope everyone had a great New Years Eve and had a great start to the new year. The Stack joins you today ready for another year that surely will have its share of surprises and I hope you keep coming back to read post after post. If you’d like me to talk about something in …
Jan 02
It appears ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit has a soul mate. Or at least someone who shares his feelings that the NIU Huskies don’t belong in the BCS Orange Bowl. During the selection show he called their placement “a joke.” Can’t Northern Illinois get any respect? I guess the nation’s longest winning streak and back to back …
Jan 01
During the Civil War, you often literally had brother vs. brother. According to the Alabama Crimson Tide fight song they are “Dixie’s football pride.” And Indiana (despite the fact that it often votes with the old Confederacy these days in elections) was a Union state. So this Notre Dame vs. Alabama national title game matchup …
Dec 31
One thing I can’t stand about college football are bowl games that have just the corporate shill as their name. There’s no other name for the bowl except the shamelessly self-promoting corporate sponsor. Because you can’t refer to the game as anything else but the brand. Now Buffalo Wild Wings took this corporatization of the …
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