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January 05, 2010
SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
Yes, well, that aside, Boise State is fast becoming the team to watch in a bowl game. It was a good game and featured another successful trick play (terrific fake punt) which led to the game winning score.
posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 09:01 AM on January 05, 2010
The game started out pretty rough, but that fourth quarter was great. Boise State took a huge risk with that fake punt, and once again the trick play worked for them. 14-0 is an amazing achievement, non-BCS or not.
posted by rcade at 09:18 AM on January 05, 2010
WJC jackpots sending fans on breakaway for wallets....Ticket sellers expect winner to net $100,000-plus at Canada-U.S. showdown
posted by tommybiden at 09:27 AM on January 05, 2010
posted by yerfatma at 09:29 AM on January 05, 2010
Team USA an unconventional success story: It's become fashionable for Canadians to suggest hockey has failed as a sport in the southern United States.
posted by tommybiden at 09:34 AM on January 05, 2010
Boise State Smoise State. 14-0? They barely beat a non-bcs team by 7 in their bowl game. They'll never be big time.
posted by apoch at 10:19 AM on January 05, 2010
Great article, tommy. We're now starting to see kids from Raleigh attending prep schools up north to further hone their hockey skills. One of them is playing at the same prep school in MN that Sidney Crosby went to. A friend of mine from my Mt. Pleasant, MI days used to work for the Saginaw Spirits, but lives down here now. The Spirits call him from time to time to have him scout kids in this area. Apparently one of the things they want him to check out is how the kid's mom is built. Is she large-framed as well? Pretty interesting stuff.
posted by NoMich at 10:22 AM on January 05, 2010
Boise State Smoise State. 14-0? They barely beat a non-bcs team by 7 in their bowl game. They'll never be big time.
And Texas required an overturned play at the end of regulation to beat a one-man team while Alabama needed two blocked field goals in one game to win against a mediocre team, so phhhhhhhhhhhhhhhht
posted by jmd82 at 10:47 AM on January 05, 2010
Boise State Smoise State. 14-0? They barely beat a non-bcs team by 7 in their bowl game. They'll never be big time.
Their football program is much more big time successful than any in Michigan recently.
posted by mjkredliner at 10:55 AM on January 05, 2010
None of them could beat Central Michigan.
posted by NoMich at 10:55 AM on January 05, 2010
Riders' GM Tillman gets full discharge.
posted by Spitztengle at 12:49 PM on January 05, 2010
It was a joke.
posted by apoch at 01:18 PM on January 05, 2010
I thought my sarcasm meter was registering something there.
posted by tahoemoj at 01:33 PM on January 05, 2010
The return of NBA Jam.
Cue the return of Shawn Kemp in 3...2...
posted by dfleming at 03:33 PM on January 05, 2010
The return of NBA Jam.
I would also like to see the return of NFL Blitz and 2-on-2 Open Ice Challenge.
I would also like to be 21 years old again, live near an arcade, but still make the same money I do now.
posted by grum@work at 04:25 PM on January 05, 2010
Flavio Briatore's life ban from F1 was overturned today. An appeal by FIA is pending.
posted by boredom_08 at 07:35 PM on January 05, 2010
Kirk Ferentz just tried to be Chris Petersen. And failed.
posted by boredom_08 at 11:19 PM on January 05, 2010
Boise State win the Rodney Dangerfield Bowl, beat the odds-makers, and Gene Wojciechowski whines about it, apparently buying into the cartel-preserving rationale for matching up the non-BCS-conference undefeateds.