Archive: College Football
Hoos Say: Virginia Virginia Virginia
UVa Uva Uva. In recent days, some posters over at The Sabre's Virginia football message board have gotten irritated at the frequency of banner ads that have something to do with Virginia Tech. The explanation they've been given is that they write about Virginia Tech so much that Google...
By Dan Steinberg | February 8, 2008; 01:52 PM ET | Comments (4)
Atlantic 11 Continues to Disintegrate
This is Todd Bozeman. He doesn't look furious. No Local Poll this week. If you're starved for an update, consider this: since last we polled, No. 2 Virginia has lost (by 38), No. 3 VCU has lost (to James Madison), No. 4 George Mason has lost (to Georgia State),...
By Dan Steinberg | January 4, 2008; 08:49 AM ET | Comments (11)
Vegas Says USC-Oklahoma Are Better
Vegas still hates you. (AP) Whew. As of last week, you might remember, Vegas (via Las Vegas Sports Consultants) wanted to see a West Virginia-Ohio State national championship game. WVU, obviously, is no longer in that position. But the thing I love about Vegas is, every piece of information...
By Dan Steinberg | December 3, 2007; 03:41 PM ET | Comments (2)
Inside the Football Coaches' Poll
At least he's the best at compiling humorous football rankings. Still waiting for Las Vegas Sports Consultants' final Top 30 rankings of the season.....very, very, very curiously waiting. In the meantime, Post college football scribe Adam Kilgore just threw himself, literally, into the nitty gritty of the Coaches' Poll....
By Dan Steinberg | December 3, 2007; 12:14 PM ET | Comments (14)
Vegas's National Championship Game Picks
Last week was the season's best test of the Vegas pollsters, whom we need now more than ever with at least three valid claimants on national championship game berths. Let me briefly state my original intentions here: since judging multiple one- or two-loss teams is extremely difficult, and since the...
By Dan Steinberg | November 26, 2007; 02:23 PM ET | Comments (11)
This Week's Vegas Oddsmakers' Top 25/30
The debate is on: Missouri/Kansas? West Virginia? Arizona State? No/no, no and no. If LSU wins out, give us LSU-Ohio State please. That's according to this week's Oddsmakers Poll, featuring 30 teams and the not-to-be-contested wisdom of Las Vegas Sports Consultants, which tells you which college teams are the best,...
By Dan Steinberg | November 20, 2007; 11:39 AM ET | Comments (3)
This Week's Vegas Oddsmakers' Top 25/30
As always, featuring 30 teams and the not-to-be-contested wisdom of Las Vegas Sports Consultants, which tells you which college teams are the best, scoreboard and polls be damned. And now, as I said on the wonderful sports television program Washington Post Live yesterday, is the time when we really need...
By Dan Steinberg | November 13, 2007; 12:44 PM ET | Comments (7)
This Week's Vegas Oddsmakers' Top 25/30
As always, featuring 30 teams and the not-to-be-contested wisdom of Las Vegas Sports Consultants, which tells you which college teams are the best, scoreboard and polls be damned. As of this writing, the oddsmakers and the BCSers both have the same national championship game: Ohio State vs. LSU. The disagreements...
By Dan Steinberg | November 5, 2007; 03:49 PM ET | Comments (7)
This Week's Vegas Oddsmakers' Top 25/30
As always, featuring 30 teams and the not-to-be-contested wisdom of Las Vegas Sports Consultants, which tells you which college teams are the best, scoreboard and polls be damned. Unlike the BCS, Vegas is not at all intrigued by the idea of a scrappy ACC team making a last-minute road comeback...
By Dan Steinberg | October 31, 2007; 11:59 AM ET | Comments (7)
This Week's Vegas Oddsmakers' Top 25/30
As always, featuring 30 teams and the not-to-be-contested wisdom of Las Vegas Sports Consultants, which tells you which college teams are the best, scoreboard and polls be damned. And now, we enter the portion of the season where we compare Vegas's wisdom with the actual BCS standings, which are supposed...
By Dan Steinberg | October 24, 2007; 09:58 AM ET | Comments (8)
Steve Spurrier Dress-Up Doll
Honestly, the Steve Spurrier dress-up doll just confuses me, but I like putting different hats and shoes on him while he remains in nothing but his underwear and then clicking the audio button to hear him talk about pooping around. I would like to see one of these in which...
By Dan Steinberg | October 18, 2007; 03:17 PM ET | Email a Comment
This Week's Vegas Oddsmakers' Top 25/30
As always, featuring 30 teams and the not-to-be-contested wisdom of Las Vegas Sports Consultants, which tells you which college teams are the best, scoreboard and polls be damned. And I'll save you all some work by whining about the following things: Why is West Virginia ranked ahead of South Florida...
By Dan Steinberg | October 17, 2007; 11:14 AM ET | Comments (4)
This Week's Vegas Oddsmakers' Top 25/30
As always, featuring 30 teams and the not-to-be-contested wisdom of Las Vegas Sports Consultants, which tells you which college teams are the best, scoreboard and polls be damned. As mentioned last week, this is turning into a banner season for Vegas to stick by its convictions, never mind results on...
By Dan Steinberg | October 9, 2007; 02:51 PM ET | Comments (4)
Derrick Frost's Socks
. All training camp, I wondered why Derrick Frost wears knee-high socks while he's practicing his punting. Yesterday, he was wearing knee high socks around the locker room. He said I was the first media person who had ever asked. And the answer? "So I don't have to wear...
By Dan Steinberg | October 4, 2007; 12:59 PM ET | Comments (3)
D.C. Attendance Rankings
Metro columnist/blogger Marc Fisher and I have had a running dialogue about the attendance for local sports teams over many months. The latest skirmish came when Fisher included this line in a recent column: The Washington Diplomats of the North American Soccer League -- their cheerleaders were the Honeydips --...
By Dan Steinberg | October 3, 2007; 11:37 AM ET | Comments (37)
This Week's Vegas Oddsmakers' Top 25
As always, featuring 30 teams and the not-to-be-contested wisdom of Las Vegas Sports Consultants, which tells you which college teams are the best, scoreboard be damned. And speaking of Las Vegas, if you're like me, you went to Vegas at the all-star break and put $20 on the Padres to...
By Dan Steinberg | October 2, 2007; 11:13 AM ET | Comments (5)
Duke Dog Decked in Mascot Furfight
It's obviously been an impressive few months for the fuzzy fraternity, from the Oregon Duck-Houston Cougar tailwag to Mr. Met dancing the Bhangra at an Indian wedding to the KC Wolf's starring role last weekend. Good stuff, all. But now, the giant-headed madness has come to our oversized neck of...
By Dan Steinberg | September 26, 2007; 12:54 PM ET | Comments (11)
This Week's Vegas Oddsmakers' Top 25
All those people complaining about Clemson's low ranking last week? Vegas is listening. Vegas loves you. The Tigers soared from 25th to 17th. Vegas will also comp you to the buffet, if you post enough comments below. In the grand tradition of Vegas, it is slow to discard its favorites...
By Dan Steinberg | September 24, 2007; 03:19 PM ET | Comments (5)
This Week's Vegas Oddsmakers' Top 25
Fans of lightly regarded teams who keep sending me hate mail, I don't make these rankings. These are the ineffable wisdom of Nevada Oddsmakers, through the fingers of Las Vegas Sports Consultants. Don't hate the punter, hate the Gambling Industry. Biggest frauds, according to Vegas: Louisville is ranked 11 spots...
By Dan Steinberg | September 17, 2007; 08:29 AM ET | Comments (15)
Censorship in Charlottesville
Via Groh Must Go. What's going on in the C-wealth? First Va. Tech bans harmless chants, and then UVA bans harmless signs? C-wealth people, lighten up. We're talking about football here. Check out this column in the Cavalier Daily, which details the plight of engineering student David Becker, whose...
By Dan Steinberg | September 12, 2007; 02:27 PM ET | Comments (7)
Cheering Censorship at Va. Tech
Finally, Maryland fans and Hokies fans can sympathize with each other. After all the pounding Maryland fans have taken over "Rock and Roll, Part II" nonsense, they'll surely side with the Va. Tech kids who are now being told they cannot chant "Stick It In" at football games, due...
By Dan Steinberg | September 12, 2007; 11:38 AM ET | Comments (11)
This Week's Vegas Oddsmakers' Top 25
Las Vegas Sports Consultants, which helps advise sports books on initial betting lines, ranks the nation's top 30 college football teams. Some notes from this week's new poll. Biggest frauds, according to Vegas: Clemson is ranked at least five spots too high by the AP. Rutgers is ranked six spots...
By Dan Steinberg | September 10, 2007; 10:59 AM ET | Comments (4)
The Big House is Overrated, and Pirates Don't Say Arrgh
College football storylines were coursing through the Redskins locker room yesterday. Like this weekend's Va. Tech-LSU game, for which fellow safeties Pierson Prioleau and LaRon Landry have competing interests. Prioleau was asked whether he might place a wager with Landry. "I'll tell you what, man, he's got a lot...
By Dan Steinberg | September 6, 2007; 11:59 AM ET | Comments (4)
Pat White Has Two Hearts
Now with an extra organ! Meanwhile, LenDale White is playing with two stomachs. (Getty Images) Everybody let's get one thing clear; '08, that's the year of the 'Eer, let's get it going. And with that, a new college football season is joined. I'm hopelessly late on this story, but...
By Dan Steinberg | September 6, 2007; 09:51 AM ET | Comments (3)
This Week's Oddsmakers' Top 25
While gambling is indeed evil, I just won $1 by betting a co-worker that Michigan would fall out of the Top 25 in both major polls today. The daughter gets diapers this week! But Michigan was ranked by the Las Vegas Oddsmakers. As always, the Oddsmakers' Right and True Top...
By Dan Steinberg | September 4, 2007; 04:07 PM ET | Comments (4)
Who Is Mitch Levine?
Boomer's successor is named Mitch Levine. After the great Maryland QB Exodus of '07, with two transfers and the mysterious academic-based loss of Josh Portis from what his mother described cheating on a pop quiz (there was no plagiarism or "premeditated cheating" because it was a pop quiz, she...
By Dan Steinberg | September 4, 2007; 10:29 AM ET | Comments (3)
What Rhymes With Groh?
In honor of Virginia's trip to Wyoming this weekend, a Pokes fan has composed a bit of anti-Cavs poetry, which probably deserves to be quoted in full, before it winds up in one of those poetry anthologies and you have to pay to excerpt it and it becomes "art"...
By Dan Steinberg | August 29, 2007; 03:51 PM ET | Comments (3)
What Virginia Tech's Playing For
The onslaught of Virginia Tech Redemption-Through-Football stories is well underway. On April 16, I was writing about basketball in the Verizon Center, while watching the same thing everyone else was watching. But I have no connection to Virginia Tech, and no connection to tragedy. If the Saints made people in...
By Dan Steinberg | August 27, 2007; 03:39 PM ET | Comments (24)
The Oddsmakers' Top 25 College Football Poll
If you've been religiously reading this space for the last year (hi dad!), you remember that I finagled untold numbers of easy posts by endlessly quoting the Oddsmakers Top 25 College Football Poll last fall. The Oddsmakers Poll is published by Las Vegas Sports Consultants, which advises Nevada sports books...
By Dan Steinberg | August 27, 2007; 10:12 AM ET | Comments (7)
The Terps: Things Fall Apart
In the past two months, my car has been stolen and crashed into uselessness, my cell phone has dissolved into two pieces with little technological bits sticking out of each, my IKEA bed has exploded and, just today, one of my shoes split in half while walking to work. But...
By Dan Steinberg | August 27, 2007; 09:09 AM ET | Comments (3)
Terps Do Yoga
I hesitate to even mention this, for fear that Washington Post corporate partner Slate will make fun of me for laziness. Two years ago, Slate published a piece about football players and their wacky workout habits that described reporters describing these wacky workout habits. A fresh, insider's guide to the...
By Dan Steinberg | August 9, 2007; 10:57 AM ET | Comments (3)
Virginia Tech Closes Practices
For the last two decades, Virginia Tech football practices were open to the media. The Hokies seemed to be pretty good. So when Maryland officials freaked out about letting the media in, I would always snicker and say, "Well, the media spies haven't seemed to hurt Virginia Tech too much,"...
By Dan Steinberg | August 6, 2007; 03:09 PM ET | Comments (1)
Our Local Teams' Odds of Winning it All
I gave myself a window of 45 minutes this morning to accomplish a non-NBA diversion. When the 45 minutes were up, I was the proud owner of an ICAST Classics 50th anniversary calendar, a "Keep'n It Reel" ICAST convention bag, 29 print-outs from the Las Vegas Hilton Sports Book, and...
By Dan Steinberg | July 11, 2007; 05:33 PM ET | Comments (5)
Another Virginia Tech Defection
Josh Barr has already handled this in the Recruiting Insider, but it's interesting enough to mention in multiple places, I think. Earlier in the month, Barr reported that Va. Tech basketball recruit Augustus Gilchrist requested a release from his letter-of-intent because of the shootings. "I want to send my condolences...
By Dan Steinberg | May 23, 2007; 03:59 PM ET | Comments (3)
Signing Day Coverage (by the names)
Since signing day is apparently one of the hallowed days on the sports calendar, I figure I should acknowledge it in some way. And with help from colleague Alan Goldenbach, I realized the most Bog-worthy acknowledgement possible: by the names. Best homage to the Golden Girls: OL Bearthur Johnson, Maryland...
By Dan Steinberg | February 8, 2007; 12:32 PM ET | Comments (13)
Bill Aimed at Couch Burners
The headline writer for the Charleston Daily Mail pretty much nailed it: Bill Aimed at Couch Burners. Lawmakers want to increase the fines for good old-fashioned victory celebrators. Next thing you know, they'll go after the bloggers who celebrate the celebrators, or the people who brought you the Play Like...
By Dan Steinberg | January 22, 2007; 02:42 PM ET | Comments (3)
Andy Rooney: What's a Hokie? Where are my Teeth?
So nearly three full months ago, Notre Dame blogger The House That Rock Built submitted a fake Andy Rooney commentary on college football. The entire thing was quite funny, and it included the following line: Some teams have nicknames. Some are Lions, some are Bears. Some are Nittanies or Bruins,...
By Dan Steinberg | January 17, 2007; 02:54 PM ET | Comments (12)
Vegas Shocker!!!!!!
Man, I love Las Vegas. Anyhow, I figured I'd call some of the guys who put together the Las Vegas Oddsmakers Top 25 poll that I've been pumping all season. There are four oddsmakers from Las Vegas Sports Consultants who are responsible. What they said surprised me. (Aside: You can...
By Dan Steinberg | December 4, 2006; 04:53 PM ET | Comments (3)
Vegas Chooses Michigan!!!!!!!!!!!
Big day in Bogland. 1) We appear to have gotten our first blog comment from a Nats prospect. (Or at least someone claiming to be a Nats prospect. Please reassure the possibly real Collin that we need more of these antics, not less.) 2) We'll debut our area top 25...
By Dan Steinberg | December 4, 2006; 09:46 AM ET | Comments (45)
This Week's Vegas Oddsmakers' Top 25
Comments: 1) Texas could go 0-12 and Vegas would still keep them in the top 10. 2) Ditto with Oregon. 3) In fact, for whatever reason, Vegas seems particularly attached to the Pac-10, with Cal, Oregon and Arizona State all faring much better with the oddsmakers than with the human...
By Dan Steinberg | November 27, 2006; 10:43 AM ET | Comments (2)
Vegas Oddsmakers' Top 25
Thanks to an e-mail from a BYU fan in Plantation, Florida of all places, I've realized I'm way late posting this week's Vegas Oddsmakers' Top 25 poll. And this, of all weeks, is when we actually need Vegas to start breaking some ties and telling us who the best two...
By Dan Steinberg | November 20, 2006; 02:14 PM ET | Comments (2)
ACC Margin of Victory, and OSU Ticket Prices
(DCU defender and "Guts" runner-up Bobby Boswell has been added to the list of celebrity judges for tonight's Funniest Sports Celebrity event. The tally, I believe, is now five judges to six contestants. Give us a few minutes, we'll find a few more judges.) (The Baltimore/Washington Bayhawks pro lacrosse folks...
By Dan Steinberg | November 14, 2006; 02:36 PM ET | Comments (5)
Vegas Oddsmakers' Top 25 Poll
My own singular quest to anoint the Las Vegas Sports Counsultants the official anointers of college football's best teams is running into a few stumbling blocks. These guys just don't care whether a team wins or loses, which means the poll doesn't change that much from week to week. Which...
By Dan Steinberg | November 13, 2006; 03:23 PM ET | Comments (2)
Should the Maryland-Miami Game Be Postponed?
Since my editor has asked me to pose this question to my readers, I'm hereby posing it. (I know who signs the checks around here.) The issue is whether a Miami team that has just had a player killed in an apparent homicide should be expected to play a football...
By Dan Steinberg | November 8, 2006; 02:08 PM ET | Comments (22)
This Week's Vegas Oddsmakers' Top 25
While the BCS wrestles with several doomsday scenarios (undefeated Louisville vs. one-loss Florida, or undefeated Rutgers, or one-loss everybody), my much-touted Vegas Top 25 has problems of its own. LSU keeps rising the ranks despite the two losses, and I might be left with an Ohio State-LSU proposed national championship...
By Dan Steinberg | November 6, 2006; 10:32 AM ET | Comments (8)
BCS Chaos, Anarchy, Destruction, Plus the Vegas Top 25
Why did I watch the fourth quarter of that Oregon State game, praying for the B's to cease with their bizarre implosion and hold on for the win? Because I wanted to see some BCS chaos, naturally. I used to scoff at those people who went on and on about...
By Dan Steinberg | October 30, 2006; 09:40 AM ET | Comments (1)
This Week's Oddsmakers' Top 25
(Yes, United people, I'll get to last weekend, keep checking back.) (My roofer just used the expression "wedge of cheese" in explaining why water comes inside my house when it rains.) Here's this week's Las Vegas Sports Consultants Top 25 poll, with AP rankings in parentheses. Point of fact: When...
By Dan Steinberg | October 23, 2006; 10:39 AM ET | Comments (5)
Should Practices Be Open to the Media?
This is a perpetual battle between media members and sports teams, and the latest skirmish popped up in our area this week. Maryland's leading tackler Wesley Jefferson wore a non-contact jersey during Wednesday's practice, but media members were asked not to mention that fact. The Baltimore Sun, obviously, did not...
By Dan Steinberg | October 20, 2006; 09:17 AM ET | Comments (15)
Why I'm Right About the Vegas Poll
At the risk of completely slamming this thing into the ground, let me revisit this once more. First of all, to those who've been complaining that Vegas is merely trying to get action, and that the poll is thus biased in favor/against certain teams, let me state again that Las...
By Dan Steinberg | October 17, 2006; 04:14 PM ET | Comments (3)
TerpSpeak, in Paraphrase
Continuing my run as "least effective reporter-slash-blogger in recent memory," I've again managed to "tape" 90 minutes worth of material on a tape recorder with no batteries, although the recording makes a lovely humming sound when you press play. In this case, the purported interviewees were members of the Maryland...
By Dan Steinberg | October 17, 2006; 03:21 PM ET | Comments (2)
Beamer Speaks about last Thursday night
Frank Beamer spoke for the first time today about some of the on- and off-field activities that took place during last week's loss at BC. Va. Tech beat writer Adam Kilgore reports.... On the comments of ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit, who criticized the program during Thursday night's telecast: I thought it...
By Dan Steinberg | October 16, 2006; 12:18 PM ET | Comments (1)
This Week's Vegas Top 25
If you missed it, last week we discovered the Las Vegas Sports Consultants Top 25, a "poll" based on the power rankings compiled by the advisors to Vegas oddsmakers. The analysis by wise commenters went over my head, but anyhow, we've pledged to make this a regular Monday Morning feature,...
By Dan Steinberg | October 16, 2006; 09:58 AM ET | Comments (7)
Should Vegas Take Over the BCS?
If you're a careful reader of this blog, you'll recall that earlier this week I suggested oddsmakers might be best-positioned to provide impartial and accurate top 25 polls for college football. Well, today I figured I should call Vegas and see if they'd be willing to play along. Turns out...
By Dan Steinberg | October 12, 2006; 12:44 PM ET | Comments (33)
My Attempt to Get Linked in Texas Blogs
Actually, this was supposed to be about the Raptors' Euro-heavy lineup. Lithuania, Italy, Spain, Spain, Slovenia, Poland. But I went in the locker room, and they all speak perfect English, even newcomer Andrea Bargnani. ("There are, for sure, some differences [between NBA and Europa], but it's too early to understand...
By Dan Steinberg | October 10, 2006; 03:43 PM ET | Comments (6)
Blog Feud Escalates! Drama!
Give me one second as I try to escalate the budding Shanoff-Steinberg Blog War. Although I'm not getting a lot of help on the other end here. Shanoff, if we're feuding, you can't gush all over me. Think "enmity." (Also, the check's in the mail.) Anyhow, he responded to my...
By Dan Steinberg | October 10, 2006; 02:42 PM ET | Comments (10)
On Treacherous AP Voters
Ex-ESPN'er Dan Shanoff is a good local boy, and I'm happy to plug his blog, but I think his post on the individual AP ballots from last week got the issue exactly wrong. At least, his conclusion was different from mine. His conclusion was that Reporters and columnists are entitled...
By Dan Steinberg | October 9, 2006; 03:44 PM ET | Comments (3)
Recruiting Rankings
Obviously the experts don't really know anything when it comes to forecasting athletic achievement. (If they did, these professional experts would not have gone 20-46-12 against the NFL spreads this week, these six professional experts would not have unanimously agreed the Pats would beat the Broncos, and Peter King (5-6-2)...
By Dan Steinberg | September 25, 2006; 11:57 AM ET | Comments (2)
Luthers and Hamdogs and Cavs Writers
So the Cavs' ghastly trip to Atlanta wasn't a total waste, at least not for two deranged beat writers. WaPo scribe Adam Kilgore and Bog Friend Darryl Slater stopped in at suburban Atlanta's Mulligan's, whose American Death sandwiches have already attracted plenty of media attention. Before the game, these ambitious...
By Dan Steinberg | September 22, 2006; 11:58 AM ET | Email a Comment
6'6 240 Speaks
Remember 6'6 240, Hip Hop's "Next 'BIG'' Thing,' "West Virginia's 'Trailer Park Hustla'" and our favorite BCS WVU rapper? (Author of the lyrics, "Them other teams aren't ready for that 3-3-5," and "Don't forget Owen Schmitt, he eats hits for dinner.") Well, I just chatted with him. His real name...
By Dan Steinberg | September 21, 2006; 12:00 PM ET | Email a Comment
Must Groh Go?
And we have lift-off. After months, nay, years of waiting, GrohMustGo pops up, promising bake sales to buy out Coach Wahoo's contract. GrohsGottaGo chimes in, linking to Coaching Football for Dummies promising Groh-isms. (Site slogan: "Doing Nothing for Virginia Football Since 2001.") The fine folks (and Hokie fans) behind PleaseDon'tFireAlGroh...
By Dan Steinberg | September 20, 2006; 10:52 AM ET | Comments (3)
I Attempt to get Beaten Up by WVU Fans
My video camera is out of batteries, thanks to Mike Wise's epic interview session with The Mountaineer. So I headed out to the parking lots with just a notebook and an Official Tailgate Question, provided by Bog friend and Baltimore Sun columnist Rick Maese, who is cleverly trying to wipe...
By Dan Steinberg | September 14, 2006; 07:45 PM ET | Comments (2)
The Mountaineer Weighs in on Gunston
On our way into the stadium we ran into The Mountaineer, senior Brady Campbell, a wood science technology major (really) with a coonskin cap, a musket and a very impressive beard that he started growing last winter, in the run-up to Mountaineer tryouts. Naturally, this chance encounter made me think...
By Dan Steinberg | September 14, 2006; 05:11 PM ET | Comments (8)
More from Morgantown
1) Washington Post photographer Joel Richardson just arrived at the Post's Morgantown bureau, AKA Ruby Tuesday. We are making a spectacle of ourselves. 2) Mike Wise went after three young kids eating lunch while their mom stepped away. "How you doing over there Nicole?" he asked to the eldest, Nicole...
By Dan Steinberg | September 14, 2006; 03:16 PM ET | Comments (2)
Live from the Washington Post Morgantown Bureau
Also known as the Morgantown Ruby Tuesday. The Morgantown Outback was closed. Boss, open up the expense account, we're hitting the salad bar. Frankly, the ride up to Morgantown didn't have the sort of dramatics I was looking for. Maryland beat writer Marc Carig fell asleep. Provocative columnist Mike Wise...
By Dan Steinberg | September 14, 2006; 01:34 PM ET | Comments (4)
Washington Post Gang Tackles West Virginia
(Yes, I am literally listening to my favorite song as I type this.) I'm about to rush out the door to drive Washington Post columnist Mike Wise and Maryland beat writer Marc Carig to Morgantown in a rented red Saturn. We're truckin' through the BCS, together. Here's the plan: we'll...
By Dan Steinberg | September 14, 2006; 08:46 AM ET | Comments (3)
Next week: D.C. Sports Gloop
I thought I had a charming, mildly funny little anecdote about a college football coach and his relationship with the Internet. But former Miami coach Howard Schnellenberger spits on my charming, mildly funny little anecdote. "'Bog,' he says, condescendingly. "'Bog' can't hold my matching handkerchiefs." Is [Larry] Coker a victim...
By Dan Steinberg | September 7, 2006; 09:14 AM ET | Comments (1)
More On Phil Collins
This is what other college football bloggers are blogging about today, right? Phil Collins? (Actually, they're blogging about hilarious family-friendly tailgates, hilarious Chuck Norris videos and this week's shocking blog poll ballot, in which West Virginia was a shocking 13th. Tennessee is No. 1.) Anyhow, for those bloggers who are...
By Dan Steinberg | September 5, 2006; 05:56 PM ET | Comments (9)
On West Virginia and Statues Made of Coal
ESPN.com's TMQ here rips West Virginia for its schedule. ESPN's Colin Cowherd does the same. We're coming to West Virginia's defense. (In general. Not regarding the schedule. The schedule is smelly.) Our reasons for defending WVU are manifold, and not just because the 'Eers are sixth in the AP and...
By Dan Steinberg | September 5, 2006; 03:55 PM ET | Comments (9)
Terps Rock Out
If you're like me, nothing gets you in the mood for full-contact athletics like slow pop songs about doomed relationships. Luckily for us, we have a football team to support: the University of Maryland Terrapins. Yes, that's right, when the school's athletics Web site offered up to the world its...
By Dan Steinberg | September 5, 2006; 02:01 PM ET | Comments (9)
