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Kicking Off Week 9 With Close Calls and More Wisdom from Lane Kiffin // 10.26.09
GATOR HYPE-O-METEROn a scale of 1 to 100 Steady after a subpar outing Saturday night is offset by Alabama's subpar outing Saturday afternoon and a return to No. 1 in the AP polls. UPS AND DOWNSA look at who's going which way in college football DEFENSEAll but one of the SEC's ranked teams...
Sprints Is Hoping the SEC Won't Suspend It Along With the Officials // 10.22.09
REFGATE Refgate leads to suspension for the crewSlive on what has to be an almost unprecedented action, at least publicly. "I have taken this action because there must be accountability in our officiating program. Our institutions expect the highest level of officiating in all of our sports and...
Sprints Has Not Yet Begun to Fight Bad Officiating // 10.20.09
Team Speed Kills Now at 9 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. CT. Some details are still up in the air at this point, but to mark the Third Fourth Saturday in October, we'll talk with Crimson Daddy and Ghost of Neyland from the schizophrenic 3rd Saturday in Blogtober. And we'll unveil the weekly SEC Power Poll...
Complaining About Officiating: Poor Taste or Civic Duty?
[Ed. Note: Complaining about the officiating is always a sensitive subject, and rarely done right. Kudos to Chris, for handling the issue with class and staying away from the usual pitfalls, while still calling a spade a spade.] I don’t like complaining about officiating. It’s the...
Top 10 SEC-Big Ten Games of the Last Decade: #9 Florida v Iowa, 2006 Outback Bowl
Second in our series in conjuction with The Rivalry, Esq. No matter how valiantly anyone tries to highlight an underrepresented angle of the 2006 Outback Bowl, any discussion of the game always begins and ends with the defining moment: Iowa is down 31-24 with just 1:24 left in the game and, well,...
Golden Nugz for 2.19.09
Interesting article from the New York Times on a couple different fronts. First, it deals entirely with former Minnesota quarterback and Super Bowl winning head man Tony Dungy. But it also discusses what will apparently be Dungy's charge now that he's off the sidelines, that is pushing for...
Recap: Rockets 115 - Nuggets 113
Despite terrible officiating (yes, this block was called a foul on Yao), the Rockets managed to pull out a 115-113 victory over Denver on MLK Day. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan) Summary: After a craptastic defensive effort in the first half, the Rockets managed to hold the Denver Nuggets to 45...
Jack Childress Involved In BCS Title Game?
The worst referee in the history of college football and someone with an apparent personal vendetta against the Florida Gators may be prominently involved in tomorrow's BCS Championship Game. It's likely that ACC veteran Jack Childress will head the crew. Childress is no-nonsense, but sometimes...
It's Only Cheating If You Get Caught
This is nice. Is that polyester? Hey, Beanie, feel this. One thing we all came out of Saturday night complaining about was the obvious holding calls the referees were ignoring all night. Even the Ohio State fans couldn't help but notice their guys were getting away with it. What about the...
5 POINTS: South Carolina vs. Georgia
Having recovering from flinging pillows, remote controls and everything else within reach... 1. The season is not over. After the kind of deflating loss suffered last week against Vanderbilt, it would have been easy for the Gamecocks to mail it in. This team didn't do that. Take away a few dumb...
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