The Austin American-Statesman‘s latest update on conference realignment reveals that Oklahoma is apparently dead-set on going west to the Pac-12, but Texas is still weighing three options: Pac-12, ACC, or independence. None of that is hugely shocking if you’ve been following this story, but this nugget is very important: The ACC is willing to talk about a unique conference format… Read more »
I was planning to have this done by this morning. As you can see, things did not go as planned. Part of it, most of it I suppose, is that while I have lots of thoughts about September 11, 2001 kicking around my brain, they don’t easily line up into any sort of easy narrative to be placed on the… Read more »
Depending on your time zone, it is, or soon will be, September 11, 2011 — ten years since the atrocity. Above is a photo of the Jason Dahl memorial in the Ken Caryl section of Littleton. The pilot of United 93 was living in Ken Caryl in September 2001, and there’s a nice little roadside memorial in his honor. I… Read more »
What follows below the jump is the piece I wrote after September 11th for the Connecticut College Voice. I was in DC at the time, studying at American University for the Semester in Washington Program, and sent this story in to the paper via email. It ran in the September 14th edition of the Voice, as it was/is a weekly… Read more »
With Texas A&M all but gone from the Big XII and Oklahoma threatening movement, the possibility of a Pac-16 is alive again, a lot sooner than most expected. Although the Pac-12 has publicly stated that they’d prefer to stay at 12, it would almost assuredly move to expand if the Big XII fell apart as a result of SEC accepting… Read more »
I’m blogging again over at Weather Nerd. Here’s an excerpt from this morning’s update on Tropical Storm Nate: Sometimes, in the life of a tropical cyclone, there is a distinct turning point in the evolution of the track forecast, where the computer models suddenly shift toward a new and markedly different solution. When this happens, the National Hurricane Center…generally waits… Read more »
There isn’t much point in blogging the latest conference realignment developments, since they’ll all change in 5 minutes, then change back again. Instead, a sampling of amusing (to me, at least) tweets — extended slightly for the blog format in a few cases — applying Lord of the Rings quotes to Conferencepocalypse. (Credit to Brandon Minich and DocErock on some… Read more »
Thunderbolts and lightning (very very frightening)! Photo via @bubbaprog. College football season started off with a bang — or, more precisely, a loud crack of thunder — with a wild weekend that saw two games (Michigan-Western Michigan and West Virginia-Marshall) called early due to bad weather, and another (Notre Dame-South Florida) last for approximately 83 hours, plenty of time for… Read more »
Well, it certainly wasn’t a pretty opening week for the Pac-12, with struggles against FCS opponents and a lackluster performance by Oregon in the weekend’s marquee matchup of top 5 programs. Still, it wasn’t all bad, with some impressive individual performances, and solid wins by the Bay Area teams. As I’ll be ranking teams based on performance so far, the… Read more »
Also, Go Irish! Beat the Bulls! And Go Boise State, BYU and Oregon! Beat the SEC!