The Offseason

Posted and filed under quotations, sports.

I’ve been reading Gregg Easterbrook for more than fifteen years. He writes the Tuesday Morning Quarterback (TMQ) column for ESPN. (He has also written for Slate and The Atlantic Monthly, and many other publications. And he’s a very good author.) Every Tuesday morning during the NFL season, Easterbrook delivers incredibly detailed analysis of (almost) every… Read more »

Clear Eyes.

Posted and filed under media, sports.

“The show will be remembered more as one about a marriage than one about football.” I don’t know how I missed this article at Grantland: An Oral History of Friday Night Lights. It’s great fun for anyone that loved the show. I was thrilled to read that the actor Kyle Chandler (Coach Taylor) gave a… Read more »

If You Hate Tim Tebow, You’re Probably Doing It Wrong

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Alex Smith is quarterbacking the 49ers in the NFC Championship game this year, his seventh in the NFL. In his first two years in the league, Smith played in 25 games. He threw seventeen touchdowns and twenty-seven interceptions. He also rushed for two touchdowns. The 49ers went 11 – 21 those two years, and didn’t… Read more »

Football Feeds

Posted and filed under College Football, sports.

If you’re a football fan with a feed reader, you should be following the following: General Smart Football (rss) Every Day Should Be Saturday (rss) Friends of the Program (rss) Heisman Pundit (rss) ProFootballTalk (rss) Gators TimTeblog (rss) Swamp Things (rss) SB Nation (rss) The Bull Gator (rss) Dooley’s Desk (rss) Rivals.com Gator News (rss)… Read more »

On Football

Posted and filed under books, College Football, sports.

As I get older I find it increasingly difficult to explain my love of football. You’d think that the opposite would be true, that I would find it easier to tell people how wonderful it is as I understand the game more. But that is simply not the case. I follow Stewart Mandel on Twitter… Read more »

GatorNotes

Posted and filed under College Football, sports.

Update: Want to know more about the Florida / Tennessee rivalry? Read Hate Week, by EDSBS If you’re a college football fan you really should take a look at this sweet list of iPhone apps for the pigskin crowd. On Saturday in the Swamp, Tim Tebow has a chance to join UF’s Danny Wuerffel and… Read more »

Florida Gators 2009 Football iCal Schedule

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Apple iCal users: You can once again easily subscribe to the Florida Gators 2009 Football iCal Schedule! And I can’t promise anything, but Windows Outlook users might be able to subscribe with this link, or by using the link on the GatorZone schedule page. Both published by Yahoo! Sports.

Friday Five: Football Games I Attended

Posted and filed under College Football, My Life, sports.

The five best games I saw from the stands: The Greatest Game Ever Played in the Swamp November 22, 1997 Florida State Seminoles 29 – Florida Gators 32 “The Seminoles came in ranked #1 while UF came in #10 with a record of 8-2. Down 25-29 with 2:33 remaining in the fourth quarter, the Gators… Read more »

Hiking or Football?

Posted and filed under College Football, sports.

My little sister is recording the event while mountain climbing somewhere in Oregon, so she asked me not to SMS her any information about the SEC Championship Game. Intentionally planning something of any importance — a mountain expedition, a wedding, bachelor party, childbirth, etc. — on a Saturday in the late Fall (or early Winter)… Read more »