and it will have a network of sports blogs at its core. SB Nation, a consortium of regional blogs has raised a seven-figure sum of venture capital to secure a network of sporting blogs across the nation.
SB Nation will be different in that rather than represent regional sporting blogs in selling national ads, they will […]
When the Big 10 created its own cable channel, speculation began that others would soon follow. Not the SEC — they decided that having their broadcast partners (CBS/ESPN) do all the heavy lifting was a better idea, so they signed multi-billion dollar deals that run to 2025.
The Big 12? Maybe, but one school in the […]
I have caught a few and thought some of you might enjoy them. I’m not sure how they actually selected the greatest games, but it is football nonetheless — it will pass the time until August 30th.
You can see the list of Big 12 Greatest Games showings and times for Austin Directv viewers. You […]
…the Russians are cheating! The Russians are cheating!
In one of the least surprising announcements in Olympic history, IOC drug czar Arne Ljungqvist stated today that Russian Olympic athletes were “systematically doping”. This announcement came after 7 of the commie bastards were suspended from participating in the games, which begin this weekend in the smoggiest city this […]
As one of the Award-Winning Barking Carnival’s resident curmudgeons, it will probably come as a surprise to some of you that I’m actually excitedly looking forward to the upcoming football season. Yes, I expect this to be a bit of a down year for Longhorn football, and yes, I think the season’s most likely outcome […]
Dan Cook passed away on Thursday, July 3rd. He was a South Texas sports icon.
Cook covered everything from the Kentucky Derby to the Super Bowl. He also covered The Game. I’m talking about the 1963 Lee-Brackenridge bi-district football game. There have been bigger games in San Antonio, but there will not be one better. You […]
He covered pretty much every sport there was to cover, but I’ll remember him the most for one football game he announced in 1992.
Ouch.
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite
and furthermore always carry a small snake.
One hundred years ago, Barking Carnival would have been blogging enthusiastically about America’s three obssessions: baseball, boxing and horseracing. Blogging back then largely consisted of standing on a street corner crate shrieking incoherent opinions about immigrants while backed […]
ChrisApplewhite on the pontiff.
Scipio on resting up for the Fiesta.
Scipio on Boeckman, Pryor and Tressel.
Scipio on lesser bowls.
TaylorT on the BCS Championship Game.
Scipio on the Sewing Circle.
Huck explains the BCS.
Scipio on RTDB.
CallKev on Colt McCoy.
srr50 remembers Tommy Nobis and the 1965 Orange Bowl
TaylorT on a Longhorn Legend
Barking Carnival hosts the blogpoll Roundtable Round Up
Trips on this year’s squad.
TaylorT’s series on cheating in 10 chapters.