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Oh, NOT AGAIN

YOU KNOW, ONE OF THESE DAYS, Michigan will actually win its home opener and stay in contention for the national championship for longer than, oh, three hours. Today's 25-23 loss to Utah was not the way I wanted to start the college football season. Although the loss was nowhere near the magnitude of last year's horrific loss to Appalachian State, today's game brought with it plenty of pain and suffering for Wolverine fans. Still, it could have been worse, for the following reasons: * We wer read

On Any Given Sunday

Good Morning Gentle Readers, Chatelaina* and the Reverend Jack kick off college football, Southern Style. FATHERS North: Expect their daughters to understand Sylvia Plath South: Expect their daughters to understand pass interference. HOMECOMING QUEEN North: Also a physics major. South: Also Miss Mississippi, or Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee etc. PARKING North: An hour before game time the University opens the campus for game parking. South: RV's sporting their school flags begin ar read

What's On Tonight: U.S. Open, Primeval, Naruto

What's On Tonight: U.S. Open, Primeval, Naruto Posted Aug 30th 2008 4:06PM by Bob Sassone Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free At 7, USA has coverage of The U.S. Open. At 8, ABC has College Football, Alabama vs. Clemson. Disney has a new Disney Channel Games 2008 at 8, then a new Cory in the House. TCM has Woman of the Year at 8, followed by The African Queen. At 8:30, HGTV has a new Deserving Design, followed by new episodes of Color Splash, and Divine Design. At 9, FOX read

HDTV Listings for August 30, 2008

Filed under: ABC, ESPN-HD, HBO-HD, HDNet, Listings What we're watching tonight: USA (1080i) continues U.S. Open coverage at 7 p.m. Discovery (1080i) presents Dangerous Season at 8 p.m. ABC (720p) premieres Saturday Night Football with Alabama/Clemson or Michigan State/Cal at 8 p.m. TLC (1080i) has Making It Home at 7 p.m. and Hope for Your Home at 8:30 p.m. ESPN HD (720p) has college football with Illinois/Missouri at 8:30 p.m. ESPNU HD (720p) has Boston College/Kent State at 7:30 p.m. read

Permanent Link to SI.com Game of the Week: Clemson vs. Alabama

SI.com Game of the Week: Clemson vs. Alabama Posted by Anthony Stalter (08/30/2008 @ 1:00 pm) Cory McCartney breaks down the Clemson-Alabama contest – SI.com’s Game of the Week in college football. Three Things You Should Care About 1.Clemson has tons of talent and tons of hype. Can it live up to its billing? The Tigers head into the Georgia Dome with their highest preseason ranking since 1991 and 15 returning starters, including James Davis, Cullen Harper and C.J. Spiller, who finishe read

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Mississippi State - LaTech Preview

Mississippi State - LaTech Preview August 30th, 2008 Louisiana Tech is one of those teams. The homecoming team that lets you win a game in front of all the alumni and feel good about yourself. For Mississippi State, they are a game you expect to win. They are also a team that can sneak up on you. So what can State expect coming into this game? Here is the rundown on the LaTech Bulldogs. Their workhorse running back, Patrick Jackson, rushed for 940 yards last year. Their QB is going to be tra read

SportsLink: WSU hoping for a day to remember

COUGARS Sometimes it is easy to forget this is the season opener for everyone, from the players to the coaches to the officials to us media types. The number of things we forgot to bring across the mountains is mind-boggling, which is why we're awake at 6 a.m. Ah well, my absent-mindedness is your early morning gain. Read on. •••••••••• • I realized one thing I forgot when I woke up this morning and starting getting ready to link: Most of the items we write for the morning paper on Saturday is read

My Saturday

It is a profoundly gleeful day in my house. It is a perfect storm of HelenKay happiness over here. See, I love college football, am a political junkie and am fascinated by true crime. And how, you ask, are these things related? Well, today is the first day of college football. In fact I am watching my undergrad alma mater (Syracuse University - go Orange!!!) play right now.* The presidential campaign just got more interesting. And I’m reading a book called FATAL JUSTICE that analyzes the Jeffre read

Local college football season begins

While many local residents plan to watch the Alabama and Auburn openers this evening, two of our local colleges will begin their seasons this weekend. First of all, the UAB Blazers will start their 2008 season this afternoon at historic Legion Field against Conference USA foe Tulsa - kickoff’s at 3 p.m. Meanwhile, Miles College held a rally on campus Friday to help get ready for their Battle of 20/59 on Sunday evening at the Old Gray Lady. They’ll be taking on Stillman College starting at 6 read

Saturday Spotlight: Big Men on Campus

The 2008 college football season is less than a day away. Today Eric Loomis turns the spotlight on the most important players for all 120 Division 1-A teams. Each team has that one special player. The guy who makes the team go. He makes the plays and he is the reason the team succeeds for fails. These players are the keys to their team. They are The Big Man on Campus. Air Force-Travis Dekker, TE, Sr. With the departure of Chad Hall to graduation, there will be a void in the Falcon’s offense. read

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Cable TV Distributors To Launch Big Ten Network

US Cable, headquartered in Montvale, N.J., and the Big Ten Network today announced that US Cable will add the Big Ten Network to its channel lineups beginning Aug. 29. read

Big Ten Network

Where are all the alternate channels? I have AT250 and the Sports Package, but no other alternate games. I am only getting the OSU game now and would like to watch other games too. read

As busy as ever

Former Boilermaker and NFL offensive lineman Ian Allen (pictured) has plate full these days as he makes his Big Ten Network debut with game coverage later today. He's also composing and producing music, and co-owns a pro football team in England and helps his wife with her clothing line. Read more here. read

That time of year again!

AT 12:00 PM ET, August 30, 2008 Beaver Stadium , University Park , PA Big Ten Network read

Senator Barack Obama Speech at the 2008 DNC Invesco Field

This was one of the most amazing speeches Senator Obama has given. But it is the best speech, because it was done before 38 million people. In this Invesco Field. On this August Thursday. Senator Obama made the case for Liberalism and did so better than anyone of our generation. Here's the text from an email by PR Newswire : Democratic Convention Thursday, August 28th, 2008 Denver, Colorado As Prepared for Delivery To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin; read