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Pete on November 28th, 2007

(Or: Two Things You Don’t Need To Understand to Work for the Washington Post or blog Auburn Football) I’m starting to wonder if maybe there is no liberal media and, rather, that the media that we have is just completely incompetent. Take, for example, this piece of tripe about how horrible Nick Saban is for, uh, [...]

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Pete on November 8th, 2007

So… the culmination of the last few crazy weeks is a mock trial competition in Buffalo this weekend. We’re leaving a little later this afternoon and won’t be back until… who knows when. Sunday night if things don’t go so well, Monday night if they do. At any rate, we’re going to have some fun-filled nights [...]

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Pete on November 5th, 2007

In Tuscaloosa and around the college football world, fans cheer in unison. Taunting cheers, kick-off cheers, fight songs… all of it. The crowd does it together. It’s impressive if you’re standing down on the field. Never in my life, though, have I heard fans SO in-sync that they could sound like a skipping CD! [...]

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Pete on November 3rd, 2007

CBS’s announcers kept yammering on about tonight’s game between Alabama and LSU being a so-called “referendum” on Les Miles. The whole idea is silly… LSU has far superior talent, they’re deeper, and they’ve had a lot more continuity over the past 2 years than Alabama has. So the only sense in which this was a [...]

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