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Review: The Big Scrum - How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football
My immediate thought when I first saw this book was that it would be a sugary glory story about how Teddy Roosevelt dashed in to save college football. In other words, full of more fluff than substance and more myth than reality. I could not have been more wrong. The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt...
Book Review: Death to the BCS
Granted, it doesn't take much to convince me that a playoff is superior to the existing bowl system, but "Death To The BCS" by Dan Wetzel, Josh Peter, and Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports surprised me with their proposal for a 16 team playoff and shooting down almost every reason to retain the...
Book Review - Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played And Games Are Won
Every once in a while a book comes along that alters how you see the world around you. Scorecasting does that relative to sports by, as the book says, "overturn(ing) some of the most cherished truisms of sports and reveal(ing) the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football and...
Review: 1959 Nebraska Oklahoma Game DVD - The Greatest Upset In Nebraska History
I originally wrote this review before the 2010 season began, but then forgot all about it. Suddenly, Oklahoma history is in fashion again! This is a review of a DVD of the 1959 Nebraska - Oklahoma game, available from Husker Video for $19.95. This is not a review of the actual game...
Review: More Than Winning - The Story of Tom Osborne
University of Nebraska press re-released Tom Osborne's More Than Winning a year ago, with the hopes that the book would be taken up by a newer generation of Nebraska fans. The original was written just after the 1983 season. 1983 was a magical year, the year of the "Scoring Explosion" offense that...
Clemson vs Coastal Carolina 49-3, Film review and Drive Chart
Clemson Tigers stats Chanticleers vs Tigers boxscore 1st Drive-Start running the football, and have to call a timeout for having the wrong personnel on the field two plays into the game. Mentally not in the game. They are showing Cover 2 Zone. Parker scrambles for a first. Ford catches a bubble...
Clemson-Miami Film Review
Read below for video clips and review of each drive of our win against Miami. We wont cover the Press conference again this week but will be looking at the coordinator and coaches interviews. 1st Drive Clemson moves the ball well here. A little no-huddle up-tempo. I think the first call on the...
Clemson-Sakerlina Review
Game recap & review of the beatdown none of us expected from Clemson.The keys to this game were the play of the Clemson secondary and the ability of Clemson to run the football adequately against a talented defense that was shaken badly in the loss to Florida last week. Ron Morris predicted a...
Virginia Live Review
Fear the Pergola!Am I the only one that thinks the Tiger Tailgate show sucks now? Back when Russ Cassell ran it, it was great. Learfield has royally fucked it up. I want Love & Hudson back doing Danny Ford impersonations too. I'd make sure to tune in early for a good song and a laugh, but just...
Duke Game Live Review
I'm just loving the stunning play-by-play of Steve Martin, I look forward to it every week. His commentary partner, Doc Walker, has an IQ of about 100, dumber than your average retard.Please retire the Orange pants, this team does not deserve to wear them ever again.1st Q-First Clemson drive...
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