Archive for August, 2010
A mathematical formula has been created to measure the extent to which a football coach will be forthcoming regarding his personnel – at least when it comes to Bay Area coaches. The postulate, created not by Albert Einstein or an MIT graduate but some lowly sports writer, is represented by the equation F = 1/E, where ...
Aug 31st, 2010
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The Pac-10 has a brand-spanking new Pac-10 logo for this season, with plans to break out its Pac-12 logo version next season. The only problem is, the conference may be neither the Pac-10 nor the Pac-12 next season, but the Pac-11, leaving the conference, Larry Scott and the football and basketball schedules in an awkward ...
Anybody can pick the best players in a conference after the season, but it takes some courage (or stupidity) to select the top players before the season. So we present our top 20 Pac-10 players for the 2010 season. Note that we did not say most important players or best pro prospects. Rather, this is ...
Nothing can stir the discussion pot better than a Stanford vs. Cal debate, regardless of the topic. Since our website is not equipped to document the relative merits of Nobel Prize winners from the two esteemed Bay Area colleges, we will resort to a subject that has a greater impact on the condition of our planet — ...
The preseason polls are kind of silly, since they are based on nothing at all. Well, you could claim they are based on the expertise of coaches or media members, but they base their opinions on whatever magazines they happen to read and whatever people tell them. But those are all based on last year’s ...
Semantics are an important part of a coach-speak. The good ones – the guys who have been dealing with the media for ages — can seem to say one thing, but literally say something else. It’s the verball hidden-ball trick. Sometimes the words may seem innocuous, and they usually are, but if you’re in the ...