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Thabeet named AP second team All-American
UConn center Hasheem Thabeet was named to the AP's second team All-American squad today. Thabeet, received 238 points in the voting, the most on the second team. Thabeet was one of six Big East players named to an All-American team. He was joined by Pitt's DeJuan Blair (first team) and Sam Young...
Talking points: Monte Kiffin impressed with our obsession at this time, stay tuned edition
Congratulations to former Vol LB Jerod Mayo who was not only the 10th pick in the NFL draft this year but was an almost unanimous choice for the AP's 2008 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year. High praise from Bill Belichick: "He's smart, makes a lot of defensive adjustments and calls for us there....
Talking points: battling the disease of me edition
Quickly this morning, as I just woke up from 12 hours of sleep only to find that instead of getting bored and leaving, that wicked head cold gathered strength. Who's not sick? Eric Berry. Former Tennessee secondary coach Larry Slade calls it the "disease of me," the state of complacency that too...
There were bodies everywhere! Lo, the carnage!
Bruce Pearl almost killed his players yesterday: This was the hardest practice of the year. Practice is over, and I count one, two, three, four, five, six, seven bodies on the floor. I’d say that was a successful practice. Other than that, though, it's still pretty quiet. Eric Berry and...
Morning Coffee Is A Cranky Cynic
Don't go grocery shopping stoned. Or, I learned, write critical blog posts while emotionally crushed by the BCS. MGoBrian was a little taken aback by my verbal thrashing of his draft ballot, but though he's not quite 40, he is a Man and took the fisking in stride. Joining what I wrote myself on...
Big 12 Blogger Postseason Awards
Over the weekend, I took a vote of SB Nation's Big 12 bloggers for several postseason awards. The results are below, and at the bottom is my ballot.Participating blogs: 12th Manchild, Clone Chronicles, Rock'M Nation, Rock Chalk Talk, Double T Nation, Crimson and Cream Machine Player of the Year:...
Your Big Ten POTW Is... No, This Must Be a Mistake. A Hawkeye?!
Little known fact: Cyrus Tate's hands are albino. I was sure I was reading this incorrectly, but I guess they're sticking with it--Cyrus Tate (the motherfucking Virus, baby! WOOOOO!) has been named Player of the Week in the Big 10. Frankly, we're startled; no Hawkeye has won the award since over a...
BHGP's First Annual Awards Show, Part III
Welcome back, readers! We hope you've voted on the first and second categories up for the inaugural Blackies! Time for the third portion of our Blackies celebration, and this is by far the greatest one yet.Here, we'll be celebrating 2007 photojournalism at its finest. We tried to sift through the...
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