Mizzou Links: Wes Clark's leadership and Mississippi State's visit
Dak Prescott will have a pretty new supporting cast this year at Mississippi State, but he'll be pretty familiar with it by the time the Bulldogs visit Missouri in November. Plus: Wes Clark's becoming...
View ArticleWest Virginia's defense will be nasty, but can the offense avoid becoming a...
Confused? Check out the advanced-stats glossary here.1. Welcome back to the land of the livingFor what it's worth, I like some of the moves he's been making. Promoting Keith Patterson to defensive...
View ArticleIf Bill Snyder has one more big year left at Kansas State, it probably won't...
Snyder takes top-60 classes and turns out top-30 results at Kansas State, but a massive identity change on offense could make a Top-25 or -30 ranking the Wildcats' ceiling in 2015.Confused? Check out...
View ArticleMizzou Links: Marcell Frazier's cleared, Jeff Thomas is fast, DeMarre Carroll...
Marcell Frazier has been cleared to come to Mizzou (according to Marcell Frazier), 2017's Jeff Thomas is the next big-time East St. Louis prospect, and DeMarre Carroll writes a letter to Atlanta fans...
View ArticleOklahoma is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma
The countdown travels to Norman, home of one of the most mysterious, confusing teams in the country.Confused? Check out the advanced-stats glossary here.1. Those damned anti-social statsIf Oklahoma...
View ArticleMizzou Links: Watch lists? Media days? FOOTBALL SEASON IS GETTING CLOSER, YOU...
What's OnDidn't figure it would take long for Mizzou's #SECNTakeover intro to reach YouTube... It's Preview SeasonTennesseePowerMizzou: Study Guide: TennesseeReason for Missouri to worry: Tennessee is...
View ArticleBaylor is the reason OU and Texas aren't OU and Texas anymore
Confused? Check out the advanced-stats glossary here.1. Creating a disturbance"How many years can this go on?" [Oklahoma president David Boren] asked rhetorically after a regents meeting, before...
View ArticleHow good was Chase Daniel in big games? Let's take a look
Tuesday's quarterbacks debate brought back a lot of old narratives. Let's talk about one of them.During Mizzou's SEC Network Takeover, we tossed up a quick post ranking Gary Pinkel's best Tiger...
View ArticleRoger Federer has aged more gracefully than anyone should
We've been talking about Roger Federer's imminent decline for half a decade now. And there he is, the No. 2 player in the world, prepping for yet another Wimbledon semifinal.Sam Querrey has played the...
View ArticleMizzou Links: Shane Ray is healthy and ready, Kentrell Brothers is not kicked...
The best awful internet rumors are the ones that get shot down before you know they exist. What's OnMarkus Golden is the best.Speaking of former Tiger defensive ends in the pros...DenverBroncos.com:...
View ArticleThe TCU football bandwagon is a little too crowded right now
The Horned Frogs' offense is loaded, and Gary Patterson never has bad defenses. But be careful penciling TCU into your Playoff bracket.Confused? Check out the advanced-stats glossary here.1. The case...
View ArticleSaturday live thread: Get to know these Mizzou players for 2015-16
If you haven't been paying attention to this series, start now: The Trib's Blake Toppmeyer is counting down the 20 most important Olympics sports (or whatever you want to call the sports that aren't...
View ArticleSunday Live Thread: 2015 Mizzou Football wallpaper
What are you up to on this increasingly hot, humid day?College football's offseason calendar has incredibly reliable benchmarks for letting you know just how much time there is before the season....
View ArticleMizzou Links: SEC Media Days approach, and the NEBRASKA DANGER come up short
#PigBrown #PigBrown #PigBrown #PigBrown #PigBrown #PigBrown #PigBrown #PigBrown #PigBrown #PigBrown #PigBrown #PigBrown #PigBrown #PigBrown #PigBrown What's OnThis is and will always be the greatest...
View Article2015 Big 12 football power rankings, with Baylor over TCU
The Horned Frogs are set up for success, but the Bears look like the better team. And let's not forget about Oklahoma.At the end of each conference run-through (here's the whole Big 12), I look at how...
View ArticleThe Colorado Buffaloes are improving, whether you've noticed or not
The Pac-12 is so tough, a bad team can get better and still look just as bad. How long until there's no doubt about the rebuild?Confused? Check out the advanced-stats glossary here.1. Two years of...
View ArticleMissouri football 2015: SUMMER DEPTH CHART
We're still waiting for Missouri's new media guide to be made available online, but members of the local press have seen it and passed it along. It's from mid-June and therefore still contains Harold...
View ArticleHow Novak Djokovic usurped Roger Federer, and why no one has done the same to...
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal took men's tennis to a different level, and Novak Djokovic figured out how to surpass them both. But why can't anyone in the women's game catch Serena Williams?In the...
View ArticleMizzou Links: Day 1 of SEC Media Days is in the books
Greg Sankey is a Mike Slive for a new generation, Michael Porter Jr. gets his Kentucky offer, Nick Tepesch is almost back from injury, and Jeremy Maclin and Norm Stewart are adorable. What's OnI am the...
View ArticleThis year, Washington State football seems less likely to totally collapse!
Mike Leach's Cougars dealt with their first disappointment in 2014. Things will be a little better now and maybe a lot better later.Confused? Check out the advanced-stats glossary here.1. A pirate...
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