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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 [...]

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 [...]

As a big fan of non-fiction writing across all genres, from John McPhee’s takes on feats of civil engineering to Paul Theroux’s travelogues, a good biography on a notable historical figure is hard to beat. A recent article in the New Yorker reviewed new biographies of four titans of 20th century media, starting with treatments [...]

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.

Well here we are, inhabiting this Brave New Digital World, full of Blogoshpheres, Plugins, Links, RSS feeds, trackbacks, pingbacks, and a different brand of new media every week to help Gen X keep its ADHD addled minds abreast of every new technical wizardry that comes down the test tube.
Of course Barking Carnival seemlessly slid down [...]

This is a must-see documentary. As its tagline promises: Time Tells A Different Story.
Boxing serves as the vehicle for much deeper examinations of media manipulation, the nature of courage, racial identity, the power of symbolism, contest of will, the importance of forgiveness.
When I wrote a piece on False Icons in Sport on [...]

First, read Part I.

Would you like to learn about some of the games our kids will be playing? These should prepare them for shooting pirates in the head from the back of a destroyer.
My favorites, with comments:
Ball Wrestling - This is one of the favorite activities of my students.
Well, [...]

I was watching HBO’s Real Sports last night and I came across a follow-up on a story run seven years ago on the battle over dodge ball at elementary schools. Can’t find the video, but the segment included such activities as tag where no child is ever “it”, no-touching policies (no hugs, high fives, [...]

Terrible peril. Want a little peril you say? No. It’s too perilous.
Let me explain.
My second longest running internal debate is rather personal, but since Barking Carnival is such a community of nurturing individuals- communurturers, if you will- I feel okay discussing it here with all of you. I have long suffered from the [...]

Some of you die-hard Barking Carnival regulars may remember the first episode of Tales From The Cable Guy, posted back in December, posted here:  Tales of The Cable Guy
If you remember that little drama, you were led to believe that Comcast had ultimately, finally, at long last, somehow accidentally stumbled upon a solution to the [...]

I’ve always liked Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

A few nights ago I stumbled across Tom belting out one of his many hits on the IFC channel. Though I was about to hit the rack, I decided to watch for a bit. Four hours later I’d just finished watching the best musical [...]

 …and I found it out on Abe Books dot com late last week. 
I’ve spent the last dozen years now building a collection of what I hope now is every book ever written about Texas Longhorn football. As of Thursday, I’m pretty sure the collection is complete.
About four years ago, right as I thought I had [...]

Katy High has now won six state championships in its history, five since 1995.  Southlake Carrol has gotten tons and tons of attention for its incredible record in three different classifications over the last 15 years, and deservedly so.  But Katy’s record is almost as impressive, and five championships in 14 years ranks them among [...]

[Note: I have been engaged for the last two weeks in the most frustrating, yet hilarious, running battle with Comcast to get a simple problem with one of my cable outlets fixed. Early on, I found out the email address of Comcast's Senior VP of Customer Service, a fellow named Rick Germano. Since we're into [...]

“This” is rooting for OU this coming Saturday night.
Honest to goodness, the only times in my life I have openly rooted for Oklahoma to win a football game has been a couple of times when they were playing A&M, and even then, I found myself deeply conflicted on the matter.
Logic tells me that I must [...]

Do you remember when we struggled mightily when we got to Goal to Go situations a few years back? Well, no longer.
In 8 games this year, Texas has had 24 FIRST AND GOAL situations (3 per game). We have scored 23 touchdowns (16 rushing and 7 passing) in 44 plays. That is [...]

From the AAS blog:
“Will will be a great head coach,” Brown said. “He’s smart. He’s tough. He’s got a great relationship with the kids. … He’s demanding, and he’s as positive as he is demanding.”

“Stats are for losers,” Muschamp said. “I like winning games.”
While I tend to agree with Muschamp on almost everything (like the the sun rising in the West and that the earth is flat), I do take exception with the stats part. I, too, like to win games. I like digging into the stats [...]

Now that Tommy Bowden has been fired mutually agreed to step down at Clemson, we can look at potential candidates. Muschamp’s name will surface for every job, but I don’t think this is the one. While traveling the internet, I found these guys as potentials (in my order of likelihood):
Lane Kiffin - the [...]

Barking Carnival is buzzing this week with contributions ranging from looking back to games of yore to gameweek breakdowns.

You do not want to miss these, um, posts:
Trips Right woke up Sunday morning with wood and pointed out four things to be hopeful about:
1. Will Muschamp
2. Johnny Dingle (i.e. our defensive ends versus their offensive tackles)
3. Blitzing
4. Our [...]