tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84438582009-02-21T11:15:59.571-05:00A blog about sports broadcasting from the great state of Florida. They report. I decide.TSBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14107435758677189286noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443858.post-1126291887405332552005-09-09T13:55:00.000-04:002005-09-09T14:51:51.573-04:00

Michael Vick is understandably a popular subject this time of year. A new NFL season awaits and ever-growing expectations mount on his shoulders. Everyone asks the same question: Will this be the year for the Falcons?Earlier this week Skip Bayless took his turn on writing about how Vick must learn to pass in order to win. Of course, Bayless writes at least one column a month on either Michael

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Quote of the day (and week, maybe month, and possibly season) comes courtesy of ESPN.com's Power 16 rankings. The entry for FSU this week simply states: "You know, suddenly Chris Rix doesn't look that bad." I haven't laughed that hard in a while, and yet, it's completely true.In addition, I have to agree with SI's Stewart Mandel. Neither FSU nor Miami belong in the top-15. I suppose after NC

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FSU 10, Miami 7; the real losers: the viewers at home.1. Low-scoring games can be exciting. They can be classics. Last year's UF-FSU game was an example of this with a final score of 20-13. This game, however was an offensive wasteland. Just brutal to watch.With both teams starting freshmen quarterbacks, you knew there wasn't going to be much offense. However, it seems like neither team has much

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Well, after their ninth straight win, the New York Yankees have broken .500 and are gaining ground in the AL East. Of course, it helps that those nine wins came entirely against Oakland and Seattle, two light-hitting clubs sharing the AL West basement at 15-23. Each would still be under .500 if you discounted their losses to the Yankees in their latest stretch.Once again, unbelievably high

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I'm sure that when Randy Johnson forced a trade from the Diamondback to the Yankees, he thought that he was going to a contender and his days of pitching complete game and despite only giving up one or two runs still losing were over. Turns out he was wrong. Last night Johnson pitched a two-run complete game and still lost to Toronto's Roy Halladay who threw a shutout. Incidentally, the Yankees

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I'm starting to get the itch again. I got extremely busy, then got other interests. I think the Orioles snapped me back into it. More on that later. I noticed between the last post and now, over 600 people have hit the page, mostly from searches and the "Next Blog" button on the Blogger bar at the top. I managed to get two Konqueror hits from a FreeBSD user. One recent hit was even from a

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Yesteday was a bad, bad day for the sports world. First, it broke that Jason Giambi had testified before a grand jury that he used steroids through BALCO after his 2001 MVP season after having used them earlier in his career. His brother Jeremy did as well according to the testimony. Never mind the fact this was an illegal leak of sealed grand jury testimony. But it was a bombshell. Suddenly, it

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It's been too long. If it wasn't already official enough, Steve Spurrier is starting to gather his staff. He's retaining at least three South Carolina coaches, including the recruiting coordinator (a smart move considering he doesn't know the area and hates recruiting). He also has brought his son Steve Jr. over from Arizona. The difference between that and Lou hiring Skip Holtz and Bobby hiring

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By now everyone has seen the Pacers-Pistons fight. Everyone involved should share some blame, but the players deserve more than the fans. There's a difference between being a punk and throwing punches at anything that moves. Supposedly, it's all about respect, but fighting doesn't gain you respect. Tim Duncan is probably the most respected man in the league because he takes a beating every night

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FSU payed the price for idolatry. I knew that before the game they were going to hold a ceremony to rename the place "Bobby Bowden Field at Doak Campbell Stadium." I figured it would include that being painted somewhere inside the stadium, which it was. What I didn't know was that it included a 30-foot high stained glass window (making it one of the 5 largest stained glass windows in the

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Today is a day to right wrongs. Today is a day to return favors. I have waited impatiently for today for an entire year. What do you call an FSU grad with a resumé? An optimist. A year ago, a game was stolen out of the Gators' hands, against their biggest rivals. Mostly in the first half, a series of 5 to 6 horrifically bad calls on fumbles went the 'Noles ways. Obvious fumbles by FSU players

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The current top-6 of the BCS standings: 1. USC 2. Oklahoma 3. Auburn 4. Cal 5. Texas 6. Utah The biggest arguing point right now is whether or not Auburn should be in the top 2 or not, and whether USC or Oklahoma deserve their positions. Really, though, there's a far more interesting subplot developing right now. The rest of the top-10: 7. Michigan 8. FSU 9. Boise State 10. Louisville Yes,

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According to those who think they know, Steve Spurrier has agreed in principle to coach South Carolina next year assuming that Lou Holtz retires. I'm not sure what to make of this. Though Holtz has been hinting all year at retiring, at heart he's an old softy and it will be hard for him to say goodbye to his players. Plus, I don't think it's agood fit for Spurrier. The players who are there were

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Since the Gators won the South Carolina game 48-14, a lot of people are going through don't-know-what-you-got-'til-it's-gone syndrome with Ron Zook. Someone even wrote a reader editorial for the campus newspaper that the Gators should rehire Zook. It does seem now with cooler heads that firing Zook after a loss to a bad team was perhaps a bit hasty, and that the team might be coming together.

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Another homecoming weekend has come to a close. It included such traditions as the parade down University Avenue and a mediocre Gator Growl (the world's largest student-run pep rally). It included a beat down on a bad SEC East team. All of the elements were there indeed. The Gator's victory over South Carolina was not all that unexpected, though some self-styled trendy analysts had South

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Right now the baseball winter meetings are going on. All of the general managers and agents meet here in Florida to catch up and discuss business. It's the time when most major free agent signings go on, basically. ESPN has put together a top-50 free agents list, and there is some bad news (Carlos Beltran will probably end up a Yankee). However, there is some good news as the experts there seem

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Anybody got a spare $10,000? The University of Iowa has put its football stadium scoreboard up for auction. Not only that, but they put it on eBay. I realize that if they're going to replace it, they would probably want to get something for the old one, but eBay? Wow. They even will take personal checks for it. The description says "It has recorded some of the most memorable victories in football

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Well, I thought I was done talking about the UF head coaching job until it gets filled, but I was wrong. First, the position has been listed on the University Athletics Association website right along with two computer positions. The job requirements include a bachelor's degree, something I have not gotten yet, so unfortunately I can't apply. Second, Ron Zook has finally started to stick up for

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After a long weekend up in Nashville, it's good to be back in Florida. I just wish I could take the weather from up there and bring it back down here. It was good to see the Gators get back on the right track despite a first half full of turnovers and more questionable calls against Florida. It's almost as if after all of the furor over the ACC refs last year, the SEC refs wanted to remind

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I really don't have much to say right now other than there won't be any kind of formal post today or tomorrow as I will be traveling to Nashville for the Florida - Vanderbilt game. We'll see about Sunday, depending on how late I get in and how much real work I will still have to do. Friggin' real world. Primoz Brezec did have a pretty good night overall with 15 points and 9 rebounds, and even

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Today Steve Spurrier pulled his name from the running for the UF head coaching job. He explained that he meant what he said about being done with coaching at the University of Florida when he resigned in 2002, and he repeated his line that he thinks a coach should stay at one school no longer than 10-12 years. He also said he is not actively looking for a coaching job. This is a very good thing

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The inaugural season of the New Magic got off to an exciting start last night with a 93-92 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks thanks to a last-second layup by newcomer Steve Francis. He was back in Stevie Franchise form with 26 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists after seeing his scoring average plummet under Jeff Van Gundy in Houston. Cuttino Mobley had 12 points on a dismal shooting night, hitting

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I've been really busy today and it will only continue, so this is going to be short. Tonight really is the start of the NBA season with nearly all of the teams playing. So far the Magic are falling behind the Bucks, unfortunately, and the lineup keeps getting shuffled around quite often. It will probably be like that until Johnny Davis can really get a handle on which conbinations work well.

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This blog is not political and will stay that way, but if you don't vote, you forfeit your right to complain for the next four years. Today marks the start of the NBA 2004-2005 season with a whopping three games on the schedule! You have a rising power versus the defending champs (Houston at Detroit), a track meet (Sacramento at Dallas), and a hypefest (Denver at L.A. Lakers). Overall, they

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Today the Orlando Magic traded G Keith Bogans to the expansion Bobcats in return for F Brandon Hunter, an undersized bruiser who Charlotte acquired from Boston in the expansion draft. At 6'7" he is not big enough to play power forward that often (especially with Dwight Howard filling that roll) so he will fight for small forward minutes with Grant Hill, Pat Garrity, and Hedo Turkoglu. This trade

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