Archive for November 30th, 2009

Nov200930

pstrelow

4

Texas two-step(s away?)

There is no coach I root for more in college football than Texas’ Mack Brown. Back in my sportswriting infancy, when major D-1 head coaches were intimidating, Brown went out of his way on several occasions to treat me nicely and with apparent genuine sincerity.
You don’t get that from a lot of big-time coaches.
That said, [...]

Nov200930

pstrelow

12

10 post-USC things

1. How’s this for a kick to the gut following a substantial Clemson basketball victory Sunday night against Butler?
ESPNU follows it with a rebroadcast of Saturday’s football game.
And some folks pretended ESPN wouldn’t unfairly toot the SEC’s horn in order to get maximum value out of its mega-TV rights deal.
(OK, sure, the programming was determined [...]