The Blue Workhorse

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The NBA Draft is tonight, so we’ve got a basketball heavy round of the Workhorse Link Roundup featuring 9 Around the Country, 6 NBA Draft, 2 Hometown, 1 Awesome YouTube Song, and 1 Megan Fox is Ungodly Hot:
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* Iowa FB Coach Slain in Weight Room - Yahoo/AP
* Sports All-Time Sidekicks - Rumors & Rants
* Retina Burning Unis (no Shareef Abdur-Rahim green Hawks uni?) - MoonDogSports

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John Adams has solidified his position as the sports journalism community’s biggest imbecile.

Luckily, he is buried in the small market of Knoxville where only orange-colored-glasses wearing readers are subjected to his absurdity. Adams latest display of ignorance and arrogance is his recent article on Tennessee’s signing of Knoxville Catholic High School prep standout Daniel Hood. According to Adams, if Lane Kiffin wants to maintain any credibility he should automatically disqualify Hood from any oppotunity at a football scholarship because of his troubled past so that Kiffin distances himself from the off the field woes of the Phillip Fulmer era.

And frankly, Adams is about as qualified to comment on this situation as Barack Obama is to run a car company.

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hidebound \HAHYD-bound\, adjective:

1. stubbornly conservative
2. narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible

Usage

One reason Urban Meyer has been so successful earlier in his career is because, unlike many veteran “old school” coaches, he doesn’t fall into the trap of hidebound playcalling when trying to hold onto a lead late.
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I’ve got a lot of links lying around that I haven’t gotten a chance to put up, so 6 are a little old, 6 are new, and 6 are Superbowl related:
6 Old -

* Rangers’ top farm system rankings - ESPN’s Keith Law
* Whiniest college football coaches (half from the SEC) - FOX Sports
* Rays’ OF Fernando Perez has some moves - YouTube

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I’ve got a lot of links lying around that I haven’t gotten a chance to put up, so here are 7 old, 7 new, and 2 nasties:
7 Old -

* Awesome site if you ever collected baseball (or other sports) cards - A Pack A Day
* How baseball has changed - Mop Up Duty
* Bone Crushing Hits - The Angry T

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If anyone saw yesterday’s press conference where Mark Sanchez announced he will forgo his senior season at USC and enter the NFL draft, one had to be alarmed. Not necessarily with the decision, but alarmed by the way USC coach Pete Carroll handled the decision.

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All we heard about this college football season was the gunslingers from the West and the high-powered, high-oiled Big 12 South offensive machines. Choke-lahoma regularly scoring 40 in the first half, the resurgence of Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and the “Air Raid”, Texas and Colt McCoy putting up massive numbers.

Every Saturday night (it seemed), we had to watch each installment of the Big 12 South showdowns. Brent Musberger roaring about the offensive proficiency and how good these teams seemed to be. This season was the Big 12’s moment. This was their time to shine….

Until the bowl season came upon us.

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Jeff Jagodzinski is an idiot.

He has every right to be an idiot, but that does not make him any less of an idiot. He put himself in the position to lose a job where he has been in the conference championship the past two years just to interview for a job, I believe, he has no chance of getting.

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