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NCAA bracket tools — the majors

Mar 16

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ESPN’s tool is super easy to use. Can make picks first time right from the ESPN main page.

SI — where is your brain? Shoving me to Facebook and forcing me to let some other random Facebook app smash through my privacy wall? Wow this seems dumb dumb dumb. How can a sports media site let fantasy sports activity slip off their site??

CBS Sports also good, easy to enter, also a nice bracket manager for your own pool. They have a facebook thingy too but it is an optional side thing, much more rational.

Foxsports. Visually clumsy — orange, too much Hootersness, and the bracket layout is hard to parse. Not my fav. Oh and registration seemed more onerous.

Yahoosports seems good, nice bracket manager too.

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OSU can never beat Minnesota by too much

Mar 15

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Nice to see the Buckeyes wrap up the Big10 title in dominating fashion, onto the dance! And especially nice to wipe out Minnesota, too bad they weren’t knocked out of the tourney altogether. Why the hatred for the hapless Gophers? It all goes back to this incident, which pretty much flattened the OSU program for the next 10 years and ended Witte’s career. The Minnesota thugs got wrist slaps, Winfield went on to a successful baseball career which always galled me.

Here’s hoping the Gophers flame out in their first game.

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NCAA Financial Reports Database | IndyStar.com

Mar 5

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NCAA Financial Reports Database | IndyStar.com. Great site that lets you slice and dice revenues and expenses for all division 1 teams. OSU is #1 in football ticket sales revenue, #2 overall athletic revenues behind Texas. Texas kicks OSU’s ass in football advertisements. LSU is #1 in concessions/parking. Fun stuff.

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NCAA Football Camps Open!

Aug 4

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Countdown to camp: Big dates on USC’s schedule – USC - OCRegister.com. — SoCal papers are already highlighting the Sept 13 game against OSU.

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FanDome

Jul 22

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FanDome – NCAA College Football – Ohio State Buckeyes Team Page — useful buckeye link page, lots o videos.

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NCAA APR — Another Preposterous Requirement

May 9

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SportingNews.com – Your expert source for NCAA Football stats, scores, standings, and blogs from NCAA Football columnists

Rather than some sort of conspiracy, the APR and its sanctioned, slow strangulation of smaller schools unable to pay for massive academic support centers is the result of something even more unstoppable and faceless: bad policy.

Exactly. The big schools have the dollars to pay for staff and facilities to manage APR. Small schools do not. That is why 35 out of 37 schools punished this year come from non-BCS conferences. Just another face of the ridiculousness of the current “student-athlete” pretense.

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