THE CURIOUS INDEX, 8/16/2012
JERRY KILL IS GETTING THE SAME TREATMENT THE REPLACEMENTS GOT, MAN. Minnesota football's done everything they were supposed to do to attract fans except for winning: build a new stadium, hire a new...
View ArticleDolph Ziggler Believes He Can Fly, Touch Sky
Fly away, Dolph Ziggler. Be free. Chris Jericho's finishing move is one of the least practical in the history of any real or imagined martial art, but once he manages to get you in it you will flap...
View ArticleFor Some Reason, SummerSlam Has An Official Song
SummerSlam, for some reason, has an official song. Kevin Rudolf's "Don't Give Up," is available on Cash Money Records, and is also proof that Vince McMahon recently lost a large sum of money to Baby...
View ArticleTHE CURIOUS INDEX, 8/19/12
BOTTLE SERVICE NOW AVAILABLE AT EVERY LOCKER. USF is located in Tampa, Florida. If Portland is the town where you can and should put a bird on anything, then Tampa is the city where everything will...
View ArticleThe Pac-12 Networks: Broadcasting To You Live From The Future
SB Nation's Spencer Hall was on the scene for the launch of the Pac-12's new TV network, an operation far beyond anything else in college sports. Follow @SBNationCFB Of course Larry Scott has a...
View ArticleYOU'RE LOOKING LIVE...AT TWO MORE YEARS OF LOOKING LIVE
Brent Musburger just needs two more years, baby. Two more years, Chan Lo, and the Triads will get their money. Hell, with a little luck, Ol' Brent might even have a business proposition for you when...
View ArticleTHE TOP 25 REVIEWED: EVERYONE IS TERRIBLE
The AP top 25 came out over the weekend. It made little sense, but this means nothing bad for you in 2012 because years that make no sense are immensely entertaining. 1. USC. The most sensible pick in...
View ArticleTHE CURIOUS INDEX, 8/21/2012
POP TARTS ARE SO VERY IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW. It's so very hot in here right now, like our soul's been placed in a...toaster. The Florida one makes so much sense, because we really are a kind of pop-tart...
View ArticleUSC AND TENNESSEE: CLEARLY YOUR 2012 DOPPELGANGER TEAMS
Tennessee and USC may be doppelgangers. The evidence, shocking as it may be, is there, but let's be clear on the relationship: USC is the light-side Jedi side, and Tennessee is the dark, smudgy mirror...
View ArticleCOUNTDOWN: NINE
When we remember, we are counting down to the season and helping Dan Devine choose a team because he was cruelly not raised around college football. It's okay to choose a team based on a player....
View ArticleTHE CURIOUS INDEX, 8/22/2012
FIELD OF BLOOD. In case you were wondering, Eastern Washington still plays on the most gruesome field in college football, and it remains as eye-searing as you remember. In other color-related stadium...
View ArticleTHE GREAT PRESEASON HARMFUL THOUGHTS PURGE
Our team purges their minds of their final, improper, and indecently honest offseason thoughts before the season gets underway. Texas, I will pretend like you have a quarterback, and not a sack of...
View ArticleCOUNTDOWN: 2
On Bryant: "My favorite Bear story was I sitting in his office one day in Tuscaloosa, and he said, 'You see that helmet over there? That's Lee Roy Jordan's helmet. He was the greatest hitter I ever...
View ArticleTHE CURIOUS INDEX, 8/29/2012
THE STUPIDEST STATE ACCUSATION IS GETTING HARDER TO DODGE. Dammit, old people from the Northeast. You ruin everything, including the proper tint of the Sunshine State in important and scientific...
View ArticleSEC Football 2012: The Every Game Preview
Fourteen SEC teams will play many, many college football teams this year. Someone really ought to write up a preview for every last one of them all at the same time. Oh, here we go. Related: Bill...
View Article10.15.94
1. On October 15th, 1994, the actor Jean Dasté, star of French classics L'Atalante and Zéro de Conduite, died at the age of ninety in his native country of France. The number one album was R.E.M.'s...
View ArticleOPENING NIGHT THREAD: THE SEC QB TURNOVERTURE
Opening night means you dance Gangnam Style to whatever comes on the teevee. Tonight that happens to be the "South Carolina Turnover Overture" followed by "Mike Leach Fondue Inferno," both moving...
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