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Kentucky Wildcats Basketball: "King" Rex Chapman Showed Us How Fortune Favors The Bold
When thinking about a player who might be defined as bold, fearless or daring, the first Wildcat to come to the minds of many in the Big Blue Nation is Rex Chapman. Rex Chapman is mostly remembered for his heroics against the Louisville Cardinals, but in two short years at Kentucky, Chapman made...
Mid-Major Tournament Success No Guarantee Of Success At Next Level
In SI's Luke Wynn's latest college hoops power rankings, he tracks the last 10 mid-major coaches that got hired by major programs the year after reaching (at least) the Sweet 16. I thought the below chart was interesting for two few different reasons. The first (and most obvious) is that Gene...
Oregon coaching search shows that money won't solve every problem
Ernie Kent was fired almost a month ago, and Oregon still does not have a new head coach. There are many adjectives to describe this coaching search. It has seemingly lacked a coherent plan. It has not been realistic, and coupled with the situation surrounding the Mike Bellotti buy-out and...
Matt Daddy’s Sunday Conversation
Since Tako Tuesday's has been on hiatus (drinking beer and watching the tourney), I feel there is a lot of pent-up frustration (name calling) in the ATQ because we haven't had our outlet to discuss mundane things (beer, Hot Tub Time Machines, age of ATQ posters, porn versus wrong, etc). Therefore,...
THE DEFINITIVE IT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW
We know who Iowa's next coach is going to be. It's a familiar name, but a total surprise all the same. And we can prove it. And that's all you get before the jump. SO. Our FlightAware spies alerted us to this strange happening-- a single-prop plane registered to the State of Iowa, flying out of...
Quack Fix: Speculation On Coaching Search; Pac-10 Baseball Starts This Weekend.
The Madness resumes this afternoon as the Sweet 16 gets underway. Let's what kind of madness is swirling around Ducks athletics this morning: Speculation continues as nearly everyone with a keyboard weighs in on Oregon's basketball coaching search. Bob Clark's latest piece focuses on New Mexico's...
Replacing Kent: Searching for the Oregon Ducks' next basketball coach
So as the University begins its arduous journey towards finding a replacement for Ernie Kent I thought I would narrow the list for everyone and give some insight into a number of the guys who's name may come up over the next couple of weeks. Here is my criteria for the next coach of the Oregon...
It's Not Plagiarism If You Link To It Is Sounding the INTERNET RED ALERT
There's no telling whether this Twitter thing has gotten with the program; please advise: We have important news for everybody today. Derrell Johnson-Koulianos--or DJK, as the kids call him--apparently has a Twitter account. We can't verify that it's him or anything, so if he twitpics a closeup...
UNLV and New Mexico square off in conference title "elimination game"
Next Game New Mexico Lobos @ UNLV Runnin Rebels Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010, 8:00 PM PSTTV: CBS College Sports Thomas & Mack Center Complete Coverage > <!-- END WIDGET --> For those questioning the title of this post, follow me on this. Both teams have six games remaining (BYU...
Two for the Road: Fry vs. Ferentz
In the course of six months in 1998 and 1999, then-athletic director Bob Bowlsby completely reshaped the Iowa sports landscape. Hayden Fry retired at the end of the 1998 season after the best 20 year period in Iowa football history. Dr. Tom Davis was forced out as head coach of the men's...
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