Fresno State (5-0, 2-0 WAC) rolled up 568 total yards while earning its 17th straight home victory — the third-longest streak in the nation.
Posts in the category “sports”
Rankings
Have you ever visited Jeff Sagarin’s College Football Ratings Page? I can’t believe that this guy’s report carries such weight in the BCS rankings.
Football Physics
A University at Buffalo researcher hopes this week to put into place the final piece of the puzzle for a never-before-quantified phenomenon in football. After spending the past six years probing the physics of how a football travels during flight using computer simulations and the videotape of a single forward pass from a 1976 professional
Wish I could be there …
Gator Expo 2001. I wanna go! Note: I can’t believe how silly the web site is! Who made it? It looks like “HTML for Dummies” …
20,000 Point Challenge
Predict who will score Monday Night Football’s 20,000 point for a chance to win a trip for four to a Monday Night Football Game.
Baseball Chips In
Major League Baseball and the Players Association donated $10 million and announced the creation of the MLB-MLBPA Disaster Relief Fund on Wednesday to aid the victims of last week’s terrorist attacks in the United States.
UF / UT
The Florida vs. Tennessee football game has now officially been rescheduled for Dec. 1, and the SEC Championship game will be played Dec. 8. Also, the Florida vs. Miss. St. game on Sept. 29th will be televised by CBS and will be a 3:30 p.m. ET kick-off.
Curt Schilling
Here is an awesome letter from Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Curt Schilling to the citizens of America. link via xero79.com Update: In the 20+ years since I originally wrote this post, Curt Schilling has somehow morphed into a right-wing lunatic. And the link to whatever he wrote and published on the Yahoo! MLB website has disappeared.
Hats
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Sewing machines at New Era Cap Co. on Friday began stitching American flags onto the caps major league baseball players will wear when they resume play next week. That is so American I don’t even know what to do with myself. Once again, some simple little story brought tears to my