Georgia Southern smacked 14 long-balls on Saturday in a shellacking of Columbia. The long-ball outpoor propelled Georgia Southern to a 26-8 win.

As you’d probably expect, the power-surge set a new NCAA record for home-runs in a game. What you may not know though, is that the previous game-high for homers was 13, which was held by Alabama (who did the trick in 1999), and Cal State Fullerton (1996).

Been a while since I’ve done one of these but I figured it was time. Here’s some quick thoughts on a couple of key sports topics from the last few weeks…

WVU Hires Bill Stewart — I get that he did a magical job in leading the Mountaineers to a thrilling victory in the Fiesta Bowl. The 42-28 score was similar to what most people predicted, the only difference was that we all thought Oklahoma would score the 42. Thanks largely to Stweart’s tutelage and motivational tactics, West Virginia played great and won big. Read the rest »

Without decorated head-coach Rich Rodriguez patrolling the sidelines and game-breaking rusher Steve Slaton carrying the load out of the backfield, the West Virginia Mountaineers found a way to win Wednesday night’s Tostito’s Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona.

Normally known for thier offense, the Mountaineers used a stingy defense and a reserve running-back to throttle the third-ranked Oklahoma Sooners in a 48-28 blowout. With the loss, Oklahoma’s winless drought in bowl-games reached an unimpessive fourth-straight year. Read the rest »

Another week and another couple of upsets. Welome to the world of college football. Here are my 5 thoughts from week-six.

I have seen it all… Read the rest »

Greg Oden received the ‘Lebron James treatment’ in high school. That is, a handful of Oden’s high-school games were televised nationally on ESPN, and at 18-years-old, he was a regular talking-point on sports-talk radio shows everywhere. 

As a high-schooler in Ohio, Oden wasn’t just the talk of the state. He was the talk of the country. He would have been the first-overall pick in last year’s draft had it not been for a new NBA-sanctioned rule that mandates high-school hoopsters to play at least one-year of college ball before being eligible to play with the big-boys. So rather than making an impact as a paint-player on a bad NBA team, Oden was forced to enroll at Ohio State University as the best starting center in the Big-10. Read the rest »

I was hoping for the best, but expecting the worst. On the second-day of the second-round of the Final-Four Tournament, I got what I was expecting.

Of the 16 teams still-alive in the tournament, only 9 are still on bracket. That isn’t good. What is good though is that all of my final-four and elite-eight selections are still playing, which is all you can hope for at this point in the tournament. Read the rest »

I ACCOMPLISHED nothing on Thursday. The same can be said about my Friday, and I was only slightly more productive yesterday. I’ll take the blame for my inefficiency but it isn’t really my fault. It’s “March Madness.”

I sat in front of a television from noon on Thursday until shortly after midnight, a half-day later, watching basketball. Read the rest »

The good news is that my bracket hasn’t yet become insignificant enough to use as toilet-paper. (Which is probably a good thing because let’s face it, computer paper is thicker than normal bathroom-tissue.) The bad news is that the percentage of games I’ve prognosticated properly has decreased each day since the start of the tournament. At this rate tomorrow may end up being my final day ’still in the hunt’ in the most important of the three pools I’m in.

There is a small chance that I could somehow manage to live to fight a few more days though. After all, twelve of my sweet-sixteen picks are still alive and all of my elite-eight selections will still be in the hunt when play resumes on Sunday. Three of my choices for the final-four - UCLA, Ohio State, and North Carolina - have already advanced to the Sweet-16, and the last of my final-four teams (Florida) will get an opportunity to advance tomorrow afternoon. Read the rest »

Was I the only person who felt like today’s Michigan-Ohio State game got way too much hype? Look, I’m just as much about number-1 vs. number-2 in late November as the next guy, but I found ESPN’s pre-game coveraged over the past couple of weeks excessive.

 I’m all about the production pieces aired on SportsCenter, which were put together by many of ESPN’s talented broadcasters throughout the week. I even got enjoyment out of The daily analysis of different aspects of the game each day. But counting down to the game on the bottom-line a week before kickoff was a bit much for me.  Read the rest »