Topic: College Sports

April 17, 2013

Fun With Google Alerts: Keeping Up With Noah Davis(es)

Noah Davis

An occasional feature on Google Alert-aided multi-dimensional time traveling, and the exploits of various people named Noah Davis, all of whom are not the Noah Davis who wrote this.

March 18, 2013

A Talent For Winning

Jack Moore

For as long as Bo Ryan has been coaching at Wisconsin, questions have been raised about his teams' persistent lack of NBA-grade talent. He and the Badgers keep answering those questions by winning. Perhaps a better question is how Ryan and Wisconsin keep beating all these star-studded opponents, one year after another.

January 17, 2013

No One Knows

Jeremy Gordon

The Deadspin story that unraveled the tale of Manti Te'o's fictitious girlfriend was a great piece of journalism. The story itself is a wild one, and pretty great in its own right. So why does the whole thing feel so bad?

November 19, 2012

Uphold The Heart: Jimmy King and the Lessons of the Fab Five

Yago Colás

Jimmy King's Fab Five days were more than half a lifetime ago, but he and his team have stuck around in the collective college basketball memory, and still have some lessons to teach.

November 13, 2012

In The Land Of The Fist Bump: Talking With Inman Majors About His College Football Novel, Love's Winning Plays

Jason Fry

A conversation with the novelist Inman Majors, scion of one of Tennessee's greatest football families and author of Love's Winning Plays, an alternately affectionate and savage satire of college football, college football culture, and grown men who wear golf visors at night.

November 9, 2012

The Art Of Bob Hope’s AP All-America Team Introductions: Part V: 1989

Tom Keiser

In the fifth installment of our ongoing series on Bob Hope's endearingly baffling college football zingers, we intersect the time-space-Hope continuum in the year 1989, with Nick Fury impostor Andre Ware, speed demon Rocket Ismail and apparent anti-abortion activist Tripp Welborne.

November 2, 2012

The Art of Bob Hope's AP All-American Team Introductions, Part IV: 1979

Tom Keiser

In the fourth installment of our ongoing series on Bob Hope's gently baffling and profoundly cornball college football zingers, we rejoin our hero in the year 1984, when George Orwell's dystopian vision of a Brigham Young national championship was realized, and Bob met future star Billy Sims, future pro wrestling bad-ass Ron Simmons, and Steve McMichael, who was sort of both.

October 26, 2012

The Art Of Bob Hope’s AP All-America Team Introductions: Part III: 1984

Tom Keiser

In the third installment of our ongoing series on Bob Hope's soft n' baffling college football zingers, we find our hero doing shtick with Mark Bavaro, ribbing a hulking and extremely country Bruce Smith, and looking small next to the giant, puffy steroid specimen who would later become "The Patriot" in the WWF.

October 19, 2012

The Art Of Bob Hope’s AP All-America Team Introductions: Part II: 1986

Tom Keiser

In part two of our series on Bob Hope's soft n' baffling college football zingers, we find the comedy legend collaborating with Brian Bozworth, Jerome Brown, a bunch of beefy white guys with Lego-man hair, and the rest of the 1986 College Footbal All-American team. 

October 17, 2012

Arrogance, Scheming, and The Big Ten: Now In Book Form

Logan K. Young

David Young's sprawling, well-researched and amusingly scummy Arrogance and Scheming in the Big Ten: Michigan State’s Quest for Membership and Michigan’s Powerful Opposition is a history of two schools at their worst and most craven, but also a backhanded tribute to some not very good, but very stubborn priorities.