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Interesting topic.

CloseToJumping on Street Agents
 
I’ve written about the freakonomics of recruiting before,
 
Taylor T On Cheating in 10 Parts
 
 
…so this really caught my attention. The fascinating thing about it is how much information about the increasing role of street agents in college football is readily available via google, and how so little is reported. Look, [...]

Who is slated for their comeuppance in 2009?
Some really good coaches, actually. And one or two that are perceived to be.
I will eschew the legalistic prick picks like Utah (the Utes went 10-3 in 2009, crashing down from their 13-0 record in ‘08!!!!) and give you a few of the teams [...]

Now that the July Rubicon has been forded and my mourning for Michael Jackson has ended, our attentions can turn in earnest to college football preview magazines and preseason prognostication. Like many of you, I will purchase several terrible college football magazines with outdated information (Jarvis Humphery’s development at DT will be key for [...]

And the beat goes on for Rick Barnes and company. Daniels is a 6-7 ultra long wing from Woodland Hills, CA. Scout has him ranked #38 in the nation, and he joins an already stellar 2011 class with the likes of PG Myck Kabongo, SG Sheldon McClellan, and Combo Guard Julien Lewis. [...]

It is a great time to be a Texas Argicultural and Mechanical University Aggie. In the most recent bitch slap dealt to our rural cousins from the breaks of the Brazos by the UT Journalism Bias Conspiracy Extravaganza Jamboree-off, subtly engineered by Deloss Dodds, Mizzou (obviously a puppet state) alum Pat Forde ranked the [...]

In what I hope will become a re-occurring tribute to our drooling cousins in College Station, today we bring you BC’s first honorary 12th Man of the Day, Judge Richard Posner.

Idoit, I Am.
Other than merely looking like an Aggie, The Poz has no affiliations to A&M other than thinking like one. Which makes his stacks [...]

BurntOrangeBeat is reporting to have confirmed through both the high school and college program sources that Monroe pulled off the miracle in the classroom and has had his scholarship renewed by the program. If this turns out to be correct, (and I trust those guys and their data above anyone else posting, including the likes [...]

I’ve never played a round of golf. I’ve never even played a hole of golf. I grew up literally two blocks from a public course, but I never set foot on it other than to fish and catch frogs in its pond. I don’t watch golf either. I don’t even read about golf.
But I [...]

in the final Learfield Sports Director’s Cup D-1 Standings.
It’s the award that is given annually to the best overall collegiate athletics program. Actually, its proper name should be the Cardinal Director’s Cup since Stanford has won the award 15 years in a row.
The Director’s Cup, run by the National Association of College Directors of [...]

Apparently the Faculty Senate at A&M, previously best known for successfully blending togas and Carhartts during floor deliberations, passed a resolution yesterday that results in a vote of ‘No Confidence’ for current Chancellor Mike McKinney. You may remember McKinney from Taylor’s excellent piece on the subject a few weeks ago. You may have also emailed [...]

Courtesy of the Golden Nugget.
Games I really like are Texas-3 vs. OU, tOSU +6.5 vs. USC, Notre Dame +1 at Pitt, Baylor +7 at Texas Tech.
A couple of interesting double digit home dogs. Miami +10 at home vs. OU. Notre Dame +10 vs. USC.
Another game of interest. Texas -21.5 at [...]

Erstwhile Barker Bobby Bragg (Co-Publisher of Burnt Orange Beat ) emailed me today about this event:
“Tee It Up for Cole P” Golf Tournament
Texas Exes Chance Mock, BJ Johnson, Sloan Thomas, and the Pittman family are hosting the First Annual Tee It Up for Cole P Golf Tournament on July 11 in Austin, Texas. All Longhorn [...]

Uncredentialed Barking Carnival correspondent Fake Ken Tremendous returns and marks the occasion by getting in his dreamwagon and doing donuts on Bill Little’s lawn. - S.R.

Just when I think I’m going to get a break from my mean-spirited criticism of Bill Little’s cornpone musings, the Longhorns go and lose in heartbreaking fashion [...]

Ole Carl saying CJ Henry is better than Sherron Collins ranks right up there with Shawn Williams being better than Jordan Hamilton. Ease up there, bra. Anywho…
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What’s Wright with Nick Wright

Fast Forward to the 18 [...]

Texas track and field signee Marquise Goodwin set the national high school record in the long jump on Saturday. He was competing in both the junior and senior long jump at the U.S. Championships. He won the junior event on his second jump, and then he passed on his final four attempts to rest for [...]

The final game of the best 2-of-3 series for the College World Series Championship may not have been close, but the buildup was good enough to give ESPN three of the four highest-rated CWS games ever.
The three-game series for the National Championship grew in numbers with each game, until it averaged just under 2.8 million [...]

When we at Barking Carnival heard about Sergio Kindle’s accident, we immediately dispatched our staff photographer to the scene to get some pictures. In other words, I drove by this morning and took some pictures with my iphone before I got breakfast tacos.
The accident occurred at 2704 Rio Grande, and the apartment into which Kindle [...]

Look, I hate the NBA. But because of its ties to the college game, the draft is arm’s length enough for me to post on it. Kinda like the Rockets I suppose but that’s more local interest than anything else. Also I’d be remiss if I didn’t give credit to my true [...]

Here’s the initial report from the Statesman.
Police are looking for a driver who crashed into a West Campus apartment early Wednesday. There were no injuries.
Witnesses saw several people get out of a car that crashed into an apartment at 2704 Rio Grande St., police Cpl. Scott Perry said today.
The people who got out of the [...]

None were hotter.