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Baseball has gotten very strange. The Diamondback's were in first place not long ago, but nearly just got swept by the Pirates. The Reds successfully intimidated the Cardinals a few weeks ago, but seem to be unable to keep from dropping farther below the Brewers. The Cardinals lost two of their starting pitchers coming out of spring training and their best player over the last ten years, Pujols, has been hitting like a defensive-specialist second-baseman. Despite that and flinching at the Reds unkind words, St. Louis has the best record in MLB. Boston, a team that was supposed to still be having problems this year, is also in first place, having just swept the Yankees in the Bronx.
The prize for attending a local indoor pro football league game? A Big Ten football schedule! Huh?!? I can't imagine a little card given out a thousand miles from the nearest Big Ten school is going to affect the Big Ten Network's ratings much. And that has to be the goal, right? What would I do with, say, a Big East Basketball schedule except recycle it?
The SWAC has decided it doesn't want to be known as the Schools Without Academics Conference, banning Jackson State, Gambling and Southern from various conference championship games for the season because of NCAA sanctions. The only problem I see with this trend is that professors are likely to see more pressure to pass athletes "for the good of the school."
The SEC wants a double round-robin basketball schedule. Twenty-two conference games a year?
Though I'm studiously still not caring about Ohio State Football worries/scandals/games this year, I do wonder how Nebraska will do. They've got a tough schedule and if Big Ten Football isn't spectacular in many offensive categories, it is bruising. I expect Nebraska to win most of their games, of course. But I think they could easily lose three conference games.
The prize for attending a local indoor pro football league game? A Big Ten football schedule! Huh?!? I can't imagine a little card given out a thousand miles from the nearest Big Ten school is going to affect the Big Ten Network's ratings much. And that has to be the goal, right? What would I do with, say, a Big East Basketball schedule except recycle it?
The SWAC has decided it doesn't want to be known as the Schools Without Academics Conference, banning Jackson State, Gambling and Southern from various conference championship games for the season because of NCAA sanctions. The only problem I see with this trend is that professors are likely to see more pressure to pass athletes "for the good of the school."
The SEC wants a double round-robin basketball schedule. Twenty-two conference games a year?
Though I'm studiously still not caring about Ohio State Football worries/scandals/games this year, I do wonder how Nebraska will do. They've got a tough schedule and if Big Ten Football isn't spectacular in many offensive categories, it is bruising. I expect Nebraska to win most of their games, of course. But I think they could easily lose three conference games.