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Sprints Hopes Its 'Refresh' Doesn't Gouge Your Eyes Out // 11.03.09
Yeah, we look a little bit different this morning. Can you guess what we did? Just what they're calling a "visual refresh," which we are assured is not a redesign. Team Speed Kills Now at 9 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. CT. Still working out a few of the details, but at the least we'll have resident LSU fan...
Sprints Is Hoping the SEC Won't Suspend It Along With the Officials // 10.22.09
REFGATE Refgate leads to suspension for the crewSlive on what has to be an almost unprecedented action, at least publicly. "I have taken this action because there must be accountability in our officiating program. Our institutions expect the highest level of officiating in all of our sports and...
Sprints Plays Defense, Needs Offense // 09.04.09
South Carolina 7, N.C. State 3. Your humble correspondent can only imagine that this was a difficult game to watch if you were not a fan of one of the teams, but college football and SEC football have officially begun. As for Gamecock fans -- any shelter in a storm. Gamecock Man finds ... um, the...
Sprints Wanted to Make the Coaches' All-SEC Team // 07.17.09
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Sprints will not appear next week and will return Tuesday, July 28.] Coaches' All-SEC team revealed; everyone pissed. The SEC coaches released their All-SEC team Thursday. It landed with a resounding thud. First, the particulars. Florida's 16 selections are tops in the league, as...
Sprints Would Take a Home-and-Home with Michigan // 07.02.09
Scheduling conflict. It was an interesting rumor while it lasted, anyway. Some sources tell me that the Athletic Department is looking into a home game against the University of Georgia in 2010, one that would also bring the Wolverines to Athens in 2011. Big Ten hearts, in particular, seemed...
Sprints Is Not Going to Online Camp This Year // 07.01.09
You see that? July is here, meaning college football is even closer and the SEC Media Days are three weeks away. This year, it should be more fun than ever. This edition of Sesame Street brought to you by the letters H, B and C. Steve Spurrier -- who would have you know that he now prefers "Head...
Sprints Has Complete Confidence in the Weekend // 6.19.09
Play Ball! An SEC team will be in the championship series of the College World Series -- we just have to figure out which one. LSU and Arkansas square off on ESPN 2 and ESPN360 at 2 p.m. ET today. If Arkansas wins, there will be another game tomorrow. A single LSU win ends it. Anthony Ranaudo will...
Sprints Appeals to Get Its Victories Back from the NCAA // 06.18.09
Alabama will appeal. This is one of the very few news-ish things happening right now in the SEC. Alabama will appeal some of the penalties from Textbookgate -- we don't know which -- and will ask the NCAA to retroactively grant them seven additional football national titles. President Robert...
Sprints Is Scheduling Another FCS Team // 06.15.09
Dentists take a look at scheduling teeth. It's only a couple of months before SEC and other BCS-level teams start devouring cupcakes, so the kvetching about weak out-of-conference scheduling begins. Among the 65 teams in the six Bowl Championship Series conferences, only 34 percent of their...
Sprints Is Being Forced to Vacate All Its Wins From Last Season // 06.12.06
The Process: Now with five fewer wins. Unless you were asleep all day, you know this, but Alabama was slapped with three years of probation and forced to vacate what turned out to be 21 wins as a result of the NCAA investigation into Textbookgate. Long story short: Athletes used bookstore discount...
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