Every year, we all do it. Every year, we all boast that we have the best conference in the country. The Pac 10 fanatics go on and on about USC. The Big XII shoots off with teams like Nebraska and Oklahoma. The Big Ten? Well we all know the two most talked about teams at the bar on Saturday afternoon. And the SEC? There’s no perfect comment about us.
So who really is the best conference in college football? Let’s go through them and find out.
The ACC Conference
Before Miami brought their brand of smash mouth football (and fight club mentality) from the Big East, Florida State and Virginia Tech were the two teams mentioned in every National Championship talk. With the addition of the Hurricanes, they took a vicious rivalry that only took place every couple of years, and gave it a bigger meaning.
Now things are a little different. Maryland is starting to make itself a powerhouse as well, Wake Forest is becoming a team on the hunt, and Boston College is tr...
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Big Ten Conference News And Notes
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The Big Ten Conference announced recently that it will create its own cable tv channel to broadcast even more games and sports nationally.
The conference just signed a new 10-year TV deal with ESPN and ABC that will carry Big Ten football, men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball games starting in 2007.
The Big Ten Channel will be available to satellite and cable distributors nationwide and also will be available through the Internet, I-Pods, cell phones and other techno... more
Tim Tebow threw for 185 yards and three
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dominant play with a 45-15 victory over No. 23 Florida State.... more
Tebow scores four times as Gators beat up on rival Seminoles
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To earn a national championship, Alabama or Florida will have to win two games matching No. 1 vs. No. 2.
The top-ranked Crimson Tide and second-ranked Gators held their spots in the Associated Press Top 25 on Sunday, setting up the 41st game matching the highest ranked teams in the AP Top 25.
Alabama (12-0) and Florida (11-1) will play Saturday at the Georgia Dome in the Southeastern Conference title game. The winner is virtually guaranteed a spot in the BCS championship game in Miami on Ja... more
With the week almost over, I’ve been scanning and surfing through this atrocity known as the Internet to find the people who have done something so stupid that it warrants a permit to be that off the wall.
After careful deliberation with several people, these seven entities have earned the title of Boneheads of the Week.
And man, have they earned it!
7) New York Yankees
The Yankees are getting this not because of A-Rod’s thumb wrestling war with Lenny Kravitz, or becau... more
I’ve decided to make this a three part series because I felt the urge to tweak the three-team trade between the Seattle Mariners, Arizona Diamondbacks, and the Twins. It is still not perfect, so I am free to suggestions and criticism. Tell me what you think: Minnesota gets:
Adrian Beltre, 3B, from Seattle
Cesar Valdez, RHP, from Arizona (Double A Mobile)
Seattle gets:
Jeff Manship, RHP, from Minnesota (Double A New Britain)
Luke Hughes, IF, from Minnesota (D... more
The Milwaukee Bucks defeated the Denver Nuggets 79-67 Thursday Night, thanks to a horrendous 2nd quarter by Denver, in which they only managed to score 7 points.
Ramon Sessions and Roderick Wimont had 13 to lead Milwaukee, while rookies Joe Alexander and Luc Richard Mbah A Moute, both had 10 points towards the Bucks’ 2nd win of the Summer League.
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I have always wondered what other people thought about Manny Ramirez. Do other baseball fans think of him the same way I do? What is the opinion of general sporting fans on his antics?
My opinion of the world-renowned athlete goes something like this:
I am proud of Manny. He was born in the Dominican Republic in the 1970s, when the only sport down there was baseball. He worked his way from watching the winter league games in his country to further honing his game after moving to New York, g... more
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