February 2012
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What's the Big Deal About Stefon Diggs?
Stefon Diggs, a five-star recruit from Maryland powerhouse Good Counsel, was one of the last highly-coveted high school players to announce his college decision, and Maryland football fans had their fingers crossed as tight as they could, hoping he’d pick the less-traveled route and choose the Terps over Auburn, Florida, and Ohio State.
Last night, I got a text alert from Baltimore Sun...
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USC Football: Strapped by Scholarship Limits,... →
My roundup on USC’s Signing Day for isportsweb.
Love that we can sign ten fewer players than everyone else (15 instead of 25), and we only sign 12, and we STILL pull a top-10 recruiting class. Seriously. Love.
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Marine pumped to join Aztecs | UTSanDiego.com →
“Justin Aysse just turned 25. He didn’t graduate from high school. Instead, he got a GED certificate and a four-year tour of duty with the Marines, including deployments to Iraq (2007-08) and Afghanistan (2009). He said he will sign with San Diego State Wednesday after getting a scholarship offer from the Aztecs to play offensive tackle.
“My entire time in the Marine Corps, I was like, ‘I...
January 2012
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“To be fair, the blame for this shouldn’t really fall on Driesell. It should fall...”
– So far, it seems like John Feinstein and I completely agree on the current state of Maryland athletics.
His brilliant take on the Lefty Driesell - Gary Williams - court-naming situation ends with a statement that could’ve been pulled directly from my brain:
Mark Turgeon has the program...
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Quick Thoughts on Maryland-Duke
Man. I thought we had a shot there for a second.
Must. Shoot. Foul Shots. I think the Terps were shooting 57% from the free throw line heading into the game, so I was (pleasantly) surprised when they made six or so to open the game. Too bad it didn’t last. If it did, that L might’ve been a W. Just sayin’.
Still, we looked a lot better than I thought we would against Duke, at...
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“God has never made a mistake. He has never made one mistake. It ain’t about one...”
– Ray Lewis, post-game speech (via baltimoresportsreport)
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“If “ifs” and “buts” were candies and nuts, it would be...”
– Words of Wisdom from Phill of The Daily Phill for all you Ravens and Niners fans reliving yesterday’s painful games.
Yeah it stings - a lot - but in the end, it’s a game. There are more important things. Hug someone today. It’ll make you (and them) feel better.
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Talk About a Bitter Ending....
I’m not going to talk much about it right now, because blogging while angry is like drunk-texting your exes - not a good idea.
I don’t want y’all thinking I’m in my room pouting because we lost, though (more like indulging in a little online retail therapy but hey, whatever works, yeah?) so I’m going to just leave you with a few thoughts about the game as quickly...
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Sports in Stilettos on...Ravens-Patriots
This week I made my first appearance on The Voice of the Fan’s live radio show, repping the Baltimore point-of-view for a segment on today’s playoff games. This is everything I was prepared to say if I’d had to argue my point more thoroughly.
I’m always wary of being too confident of a ‘W’, but since I picked the Ravens to win narrowly last weekend and they...
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You Can Hear Me on the Radio....
A little bit before 9 tonight, I’ll be a guest on TheVoiceoftheFan.com’s live broadcast.
Whooooooooooo!!!!!!!!
Talking Ravens-Patriots, so tune in! (Link to the archived podcast will be posted later, as long as I don’t embarrass myself….)
Wish me luck and Go Ravens!
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GO RAVENS!
So excited for today’s game!
I’ll (probably - depending on how intense the game is) be chatting live on Twitter (@SportsStilettos) and on Facebook if you want to join in!
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Deadspin Made My Day.
Seriously, you guys, I can’t even.
[Presented in the order of increasing ridiculousness in which I found them]
Good:
NFL.com has used the miracles of the internet to imagine what the hypothetical spawn of Tim Tebow + [insert celebrity here] would look like. For the record, Tebow and Oprah would have some cuuuuuuute babes. But Tebow and Michele Bachmann would have Justin Bieber. Too...
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BCS Championship Game: Will LSU remain the...
If you’ve been following Sports in Stilettos for even a little while, you know I love college football above and beyond just about everything else, so you’d think I’d be just a little bit excited for tonight’s “national” championship game.
Here’s the truth: I’m not.
I wish this game wasn’t even happening.
I hope LSU wins (though if I were...
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BCS Championship Game: Saban vs. Miles is a tough...
Before the first LSU-Alabama Game of the Year this year, I wrote a look back at the head-to-head match-ups between Alabama under Nick Saban and LSU under Les Miles. Man, is this ever a rivalry. At the time, the series was evenly split, with each team having two wins in very close games. Obviously, LSU pulled ahead with the win in the regular season matchup, but it was a 3-0 win in overtime, so...
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December 2011
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“Many say it is demeaning to think that God cares about touchdowns, but given...”
– Buzz Bissinger makes a compelling point in his piece about Tim Tebow and Denver losing to New England on Sunday.
[From: Tim Tebow Crashes to Earth as Denver Broncos Get Walloped - The Daily Beast]
And if you’re not Tebow’d out already, this week’s SNL skit featuring #15 and his...
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Mike Leach and John Gray: The Pirate of the... →
Washington State head coach Mike Leach is one of the most entertaining characters in college football, and he just got more interesting.
From Seattle Weekly comes the news that Leach’s business partner, John Gray, isn’t necessarily in the line of work you’d expect: he ”presides over a regional strip-club-guide empire.”
Who knew there were guides to strip clubs?...
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What- What- WHAT ARE YOU DOING??
Kevin Anderson, I’m talking to you, bud.
Do you hate football? Do you hate organized sports in general?
You’re the athletic director at Maryland, and I assumed some sort of appreciation for sports might be a prerequisite for that position, but perhaps I’m wrong, because you sure seem to be doing everything you can to run the football team (and, by extension, much of the rest...
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“To anyone who’s spent the last two decades listening to James speak...”
– Craig James is running for Senate??
More or less of a travesty than Trump (or, um, a number of the other candidates) running for President?
I have to agree with the above quote. PLEASE get a new team on Thursday night games!