Barking Carnival

The bitterness fades with each bite of jambalaya. This version comes from a seventh-generation and self-described coonass from Slidell. He throws in some outrageous venison sausage—the herd’s got to be thinned out right?—and I washed it down appropriately. I’ve already lost one bet to the Florida fan in attendance: Alabama plus ten losing by eleven […]

At least the BCS renewed my passion for AM radio. The Jones family took in Missouri/Kansas through the magic of the internet, with the 30-second refresh adding intensity and anticipation to a game that was exciting enough in real time for those who actually saw it. We made due with Zach’s call from the back […]

We improve things far beyond their utility in this country. That’s my thought while I watch a vending machine slowly engage an elevator device, moving both horizontally and vertically, carefully select a 16 ounce bottle of Dasani water and gently bring it down to the vending window. Heaven forbid a bottled water drop too violently […]

Miserable. My word for Sunday morning described not any result on the field—my team won easily—but rather that run-over-by-a-truck, what-did-I-do-to-deserve-this?, I’d-rather-be-strapped-to-a-chair-watching-Hee-Haw-reruns feeling. This may have happened because I missed the flu shot clinic at work a couple of weeks ago because, naturally, one of my kids was sick. Feeling a little better on a Monday […]

The AP and the ESPN Poll start out like so.
For our purposes I’m not going to split hairs with respect to the two polls disagreeing on slot number 10. Gonzaga, Purdue. Purdue, Gonzaga. Meh. In fact, in King Solomon fashion, let’s split the baby or in this case the Gene Keady […]

“The new president wants to end the BCS.”
This from the backseat, offered up by the thirteen-year-old future constitutional law scholar.
“Yeah, well that is what he said.” No denying this, at half-time of Monday Night Football, for the love of Pete, the junior Senator from Illinois was asked the most pressing problem in sports. His opponent […]

Too much red wine, that’s the epigram for November 1, 2008 in the Jones household. Serves a variety of purposes, red wine. Purpose one was relaxation on this Saturday night. Then we moved to stress relief, then local anesthetic. The second half brought out the joyful qualities. It even fueled buoyant celebration, the kind brought […]

Here are the results, though all precincts have not yet reported.

Looks like the computers love the Big 12 South. 40% of the BCS Top Ten are from the Big 12 South. Basically, the 5th best team in the Big 12 will have a home game for the Conference championship.
2. Texas Tech
4. Texas
6. Oklahoma
9. Oklahoma State
14. Missouri

My grandfather loved Shakespeare. Grandad was convinced that psychology, a discipline he actually taught at the college level, was unnecessary; Shakespeare had already figured it all out. The conflicts between children and parents, the battle of id and ego, the reviled among us speaking the most eloquent truths, the dangers of pride (and women), tragedy, […]

Here’s is this week’s.
Comments and questions below.

T Boone Pickens hedge fund investments have dropped, but his $200 million investment in Oklahoma State athletics is showing signs of paying off — at least Boone thinks so. Pickens may not be the collegiate Jerry Jones just yet, but some of the signs point that way. Boone is spending his Saturdays in the OSU […]

Enchiladas y Mas used to be a Mexican joint; that’s when it was in the tiny brick building at Dean Keeton and I-35, adjacent to the Roadway Inn, which was one of the places folks stayed for college football weekends back when folks stayed in motels and could easily afford tickets for a family of […]

Please enjoy Scipio’s excellent early take on the BCS.
Here’s this week’s blogpoll.

Texas is in negotiations with North Carolina for a 4-game series, that would start with a game Jerry Jones’ new stadium in Arlington.
The series would be set up where two games would be played at major sites off campus for each school and then have a another game on each others campus.
Jones is bidding for […]

The blood rushed straight to my head; it came with a searing pain moving from both of my ears in a sprint colliding in the center of my skull. I think a ghost hit me with a frying pan. That’s the moment I blacked out. For a brief second, all I saw was a bright […]

We have our latest blogpoll done and look. Texas is # 1.

Here’s a piece of trivia that will only be good to use until Saturday (I think). The first game Texas lined up as the #1 team in the nation during the regular season  and the last regular season game that the Horns entered as the top team in the nation have both ended in a […]

The Big 12 announced their TV games for the October 18th weekend.
ABC will wait until this Sunday to decide whether Texas-Mizzou is the 2:30 or 7 pm slot. Kansas-Oklahoma will get the other ABC slot. I’d guess the winner of the Red River Shootout will be the primetime telecast.
If Texas wins, Austin will […]

So our boy Brian has hit the big time, with his blogpoll becoming the official unofficial ballot on CBS. We’re happy for him and pleased to be a part of it.
We’ll also be hosting the roundtable this week and Scipio should have some questions and answers for our readers and the rest of the […]