Barking Carnival

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 Like many of you, I will purchase several terrible college football magazines with outdated information (Jarvis Humphery’s development at DT will be key for [...]

What a great weekend of baseball.

Clark bunts over the wall!
We score 8 runs in the ninth after a key bases loaded double by Brandon Loy to tie it up followed by Preston Clark’s sacrifice bunt that travels 370 feet over the wall for a grand slam and the win.
You have to tip [...]

Go here to catch real-time game updates across all regionals. Click on any pairing for the particulars.
FYI, Oregon State is currently destroying A&M 9-1 in the 7th. The Aggies continue to define clutch postseason play.
Boston College just edged Texas St 8-7 in our regional 2/3 match. There will be much burning of [...]

You know by now that Texas received it’s first blow of the recruiting season when Ahmad Dixon declared for Baylor. Losing an elite recruit to Baylor is like having Pat Boone pick your pocket. Dixon was one of our best five recruits and will serve as the bellcow of Baylor’s class. I [...]

According to ESPN’s Andy Katz:
James remains on the bubble as to whether he will stay in the draft. He’s considered a borderline first-round pick. He said if he can’t get a guarantee in the first round, he’ll “probably go back to school.”
“We can have a great team with Avery Bradley coming in, Dexter Pittman, Justin [...]

They’re making a movie out of the Michael Lewis book The Blind Side and it has the potential to be a good flick. And by potential, I mean that it will be purchased by some studio hack who will turn out a football film similar to Johnny B Goode. Who can forget the [...]

Last week, Tom Osborne received deafening silence for his idea that the Big 12 sit struggling officials. Insiders speculate that this is punishment by other athletic directors for Osborne insisting that he be called a Doctor, despite his doctorate being in something as completely bullshit as educational psychology.

Tom Osborne goes apeshit!
This led [...]

That’s the title of Jon Krakauer’s new Pat Tillman biopic coming this September.
Tillman was a NFL starting safety who walked away from a 3.6 million dollar contract with the Arizona Cardinals to join the Army Rangers with his brother Kevin. He served with distinction in Iraq and Afghanistan and was killed in [...]

Banality strikes back.
Gary Cartwright lanced the boil of modern sports journalism a few days ago and given Cartwright’s unapologetic criticism, I was not surprised to see some of his former peers take offense.
Richard Justice offers a retort written in powerfully annoying folksy prose, suggesting that Cartwright’s generation were unethical, easily manipulated, semi-racist, lazy [...]

Gary Cartwright opines provocatively. You can also read more Cartwright here.
Gary Cartwright is a living Texas treasure and he drives this particular pitch out of the park, past the cotton-candy concessions, over the train tracks, and through a Chevy Corsica’s windshield.
In the footprints of these giants we now find ants. [...]

The board’s favorite object of Sooner abuse has put up an interesting analysis concerning Tim Griffin’s Big 12 Blog detailing Big Game* Bob’s dominance over the rest of the league. I certainly concede the argument to Oklahoma simply on the basis of Big 12 hardware though the postseason letdowns are becoming increasingly brutal for [...]

Ah, you just knew that was going to happen, didn’t you?

In a society that increasingly values name recognition over accomplishment and where dumb notoriety is The New Compelling, Matt Millen has been named as one of ESPN’s lead college football studio analysts and will also contribute to NFL studio shows.
You’ll remember, dear reader, that we [...]

And it’s not to our Honors Accounting program.
Meet 6-5 super sophomore (2011) wing Sheldon McClellan. h/t $$ Burnt Orange Beat
If you like free, here’s a write-up from the Statesman.
And a clip of Sheldon playing a club team of emo boys and random buffoons:

Good work from our Missouri friends at Atomic Teeth in breaking down the Big 12 draft.
Were you surprised that Missouri had the most guys drafted in 2009?
How about the fact that it is Nebraska - not Oklahoma - that has the second highest number of guys in the NFL currently? [...]

This is your open thread.
Speculate on how many times the Jets fans will boo their selections.
What draft pick will be Aaron Rodgersed and face a long, uncomfortable wait wearing a lime green suit and tophat in the prospect pen?
Will Mel Kiper actually offer an opinion that isn’t derivative [...]

Martellus Bennett has been writing a weekly Cowboys Insider blog for the Dallas Mornings News and it is a thing of wonder. In the last few weeks, Marty B has expressed his belief in aliens (and played one in a board game), caught a woman farting in the grocery store, mocked Mel Kiper as [...]

Phillipsburg High School and Easton Area High School are going to settle their score once and for all by replaying their inconclusive 1993 rivalry game. It will also fulfill the secret desire of most thirtysomething males living in New Jersey and Pennsylvania factory towns: namely, going back to high school. (ref: see Springsteen, [...]

The Deadliest Warrior is a new series on Spike and it’s excellent guilty pleasure guy fare. Morning stars crashing into human replica gel-filled dummy heads, katanas slicing pig carcasses in half, and interesting, often ludicrous - occasionally hilarious - match-ups soberly presided over by bio-engineers, ER doctors, paramedics, and IT geeks with computer simulation [...]

Barking Carnival’s Henry James summons The Tortilla Retort’s Dedfischer to his lair. Learning ensues and a football rivalry is healed.

a h/t to EDSBS for the heads up.