The Chancellor’s Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics came up with some interesting numbers regarding the fiancial woes of the Cal athletics program when it released its report the other day. Normally we don’t care much for numbers. Colleges offer classes in “How to Lie With Statistics,” and you can prove and suggest virtually anything you want if you ...
We are going to make a case for a guy being in the Pro Football Hall of Fame even though he has never started an NFL game, never scored a point, is on the field for only a handful of plays every game and is probably unknown to most of you. How can that be, you may ...
We’re trying to imagine the reaction of Stanford athletic director Bob Bowlsby and Cal A.D. Sandy Barbour when Pac-12 salesman supreme Larry Scott triumphantly strolled in and said: “Hey, I got Colorado to agree to join us, and all I had to do was promise those guys they would be in a division with the ...
Grammar seldom enters into our discussions at JakesTakeOnSports, because, quite frankly, we ain’t got no reason to be complaining of the inference of the way our words we makes use of. If you catch my drift. However, the World Cup provided a nice reminder of subject-verb agreement, a literary formality my former employer, the San ...
Texas reminds us of Eddie. You may know him as Jimmy or Rex or Zeke or Hambone or Slick, but they all represent the same person. Eddie was the guy who made the choices for your clique of five of six junior-high boys. Either by force of his physical stature or his personal charisma or ...
Did you hear that domino fall? It was one lone thud, and not a loud one at that. But it was the domino that had to fall first. The most important domino, of course, is Texas, and when the Longhorns decide which conference to grace with their presence, the rest of the dominoes will fall in ...
Basketball as we know it on the West Coast would cease to exist if those six Big 12 schools were added to the Pac-10. About the only thing that would remain the same in roundball out here is that the ball would remain round. Unless Larry Scott has other ideas about that too. (We could ...
The Super 16 Football Conference. Hmmm. Creates goosebumps, doesn’t it? The news that the Pac-10 plans to invite six members of the Big 12 to join the conference did not come completely out of left field – more like left-center field, just to the right of the 385-sign. Hints that the Pac-10 would try to expand ...
The Oregon State women’s basketball program had hit rock bottom about a week ago, establishing an unofficial record for the depths that a program can reach. Well, today we are reminded of that age-old adage first uttered, we believe, by Attila the Hun: Records are made to be broken. (Of course, our man Attila thought ...
Because P90X has become a leader in total fitness with its concentrated workouts and nutrition guides, it was a logical step for P90X to add a nutrition-rich drink that promotes rapid recovery from the intense P90X workouts. It came up with the P90X Recovery Drink. No after-workout drink is worthwhile if the athlete won’t use ...
