Andy

My genius school scheduled 2. I'd worry about only 1 of them counting towards bowl eligibility, but we actually have to win both for that to matter.

Anyone who doesn't have their team down as a 'team of interest', let me know so I can add them. Top 25 games ------------------------ San Jose State at (1) Alabama (7 pm) Marshall at (2) Ohio State (7:30 pm Thursday, BTN - Regional) (3) Boise State vs (10) Virginia Tech – in Washington, DC (8 pm Monday, ESPN) Miami (OH) at (4) Florida (12 pm, ESPN) (5) Texas vs Rice – in Houston (3:30 pm, ESPN) (24) Oregon State vs (6) TCU – in Arlington, TX (7:45 pm, ESPN) Utah State at (7) Oklahoma (7 pm) Western Kentucky at (8) Nebraska (7 pm) Eastern Illinois at (9) Iowa (12 pm, BTN – Regional) New Mexico at (11) Oregon (3:30 pm) (12) Wisconsin at UNLV (11 pm, Versus) Florida A&M at (13) Miami (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPN3) (14) USC at Hawaii (11 pm Thursday, ESPN) (15) Pittsburgh at Utah (8:30 pm Thursday, Versus) South Carolina State at (16) Georgia Tech (1 pm, ESPN3) Tennessee Tech at (17) Arkansas (7 pm, ESPN3) (21) LSU vs (18) North Carolina – in Atlanta (8 pm, ABC) Youngstown State at (19) Penn State (12 pm, BTN – Regional) Samford at (20) Florida State (12 pm, ESPNU) Arkansas State at (22) Auburn (7 pm) UL Lafayette at (23) Georgia (12 pm, SEC Network) Coastal Carolina at (25) West Virginia (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Games of interest ------------------------ SE Missouri State at Ball State (7 pm Thursday) Southern Miss at South Carolina (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPN) Minnesota at Middle Tennessee (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPNU) Towson at Indiana (7:30 pm Thursday, BTN - Regional) Northern Illinois at Iowa State (7:30 pm Thursday, CSN Chicago and FSN Midwest) Western Michigan at Michigan State (12 pm, ESPN2) Illinois vs Missouri – in St. Louis (12:30 pm, FSN/CSN) UConn at Michigan (3:30 pm, ABC – Regional) Kentucky at Louisville (3:30 pm, ABC – Regional) UCLA at Kansas State (3:30 pm, ABC – Regional) Purdue at Notre Dame (3:30 pm, NBC) Jacksonville State at Ole Miss (3:30 pm, ESPN3) UC Davis at California (4 pm, CSN California) UT-Martin at Tennessee (6 pm) Elon at Duke (7 pm, ESPN3) North Dakota State at Kansas (7 pm, FCS Central) Grambling at Louisiana Tech (7 pm, ESPN3) Sam Houston State at Baylor (7 pm) Stephen F. Austin at Texas A&M (7 pm) Northwestern at Vanderbilt (7:30 pm, ESPN3) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------- On TV Arizona at Toledo (8 pm Friday, ESPN) North Texas at Clemson (3:30 pm, ESPNU) Washington at BYU (7 pm, CBS College) Memphis at Mississippi State (7 pm, ESPNU) Washington State at Oklahoma State (7 pm, FSN/CSN) Cincinnati at Fresno State (10:30 pm, ESPN2) Tulsa at East Carolina (2 pm Sunday, ESPN2) SMU at Texas Tech (3:30 pm Sunday, ESPN) Maryland vs Navy – in Baltimore (4 pm Monday, ESPN) ESPN3 games Presbyterian at Wake Forest (6:30 pm Thursday, ESPN3) Norfolk State at Rutgers (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPN3) Villanova at Temple (5 pm Friday, ESPN3) Weber State at Boston College (1 pm, ESPN3) Syracuse at Akron (6 pm, ESPN3) Western Carolina at NC State (6 pm, ESPN3) Richmond at Virginia (6 pm, ESPN3) Stony Brook at South Florida (TBA, ESPN3) I-AA games of interest --------------------------------- Quincy at Southern Illinois (8 pm Thursday) Nationally available games outside I-A ------------------------------------------------- West Texas A&M at Grand Valley State (8 pm Thursday, CBS College) Delaware State vs Southern – in Orlando (12 pm Sunday, ESPN)

Little disappointed Boise State isn't higher.

watch espn for live sports and don't ever watch it otherwise. i guess pti is okay... maybe. I like PTI because it's the only time an ESPN personality expresses an opinion and it's not staged.

Excellent. I was wanting to see the Bulls this year, anyway. OKC also got a christmas day game (wtf) against Denver? That's pretty high praise There are 5 Christmas games (Bulls @ Knicks is one), so it's a nice thing but I wouldn't call it 'high praise'.

My friend and I always go to Wrigley for a few days each year, and we haven't done it yet this year on account of him being unemployed. He just got his job back last week after a 17-month layoff so I was browsing September ticket prices on StubHub, and bleachers for the Giants series in September are going for 10 bucks. The point is, scalper prices right now probably aren't too bad.

Gotta say, I'm pleased that in my fifth year of posting here I'm finally putting forth a respectable HR Derby showing.

I'm actually kind of excited for the Panthers' ESPN preseason game to check out the new-look team.

Last year's was awful. Country music intro? For a Chicago team? Really?

I'm much too happy about not having to watch Ryan Theriot everyday anymore. Not quite Neifi-level happy, because that's basically an unreachable level. But quite happy.

I'm going to do it once the preseason AP rankings are released. I'm completely in your boat. Speaking of which, anyone want their teams added to the "teams of interest" column that isn't there already?

It should be something else, one conference that can't count is plenty enough.

And the way the Cubs spent the next few days acting they probably put a lock on the clubhouse door along with a crude picture of Z that said "NO ZAMBRANOS ALLOWED" on it.

Apropos of nothing, Miami scheduled a home and home with Toledo. I'd love to know how Toledo got that deal. Ball State is hosting South Florida in 2012 as part of a home and home, but they aren't "The U".

Aaron Miles is hitting .327 in his very limited ABs in St. Louis. I'm SHOCKED.

Looking at that Cardinals lineup, the first thing that comes to mind is "How the hell is that team 10+ games ahead of us?".

Notre Dame and Miami will play in Chicago in 2012, at ND in 2016, and at Miami on Thanksgiving weekend 2017. The latter is the best news - ND hasn't had a marquee game after USC in odd-numbered years (when they play at ND in October) in quite a while. The 2012 schedule now has USC, Michigan, Miami and Oklahoma (assuming the latter is finalized) on it. Not too bad. Also, Pat Haden is mercifully leaving the NBC ND booth to be AD at USC, where he was previously on the board of trustees.

A replacement 1B for one. So we throw a bunch of money at a replacement 3B instead of a replacement 1B, when good hitters are far easier to find at 1B?

I went to play NCAA Football when it was 7-1. Go figure.

Yeah, I realized right after I arrived at work that Atkins pitched...falling behind 5-0 in the 1st clouds one's judgment.

It was a joke, friends. Calm down. I like Stevens, I'm just hoping for some improvement.

Did you know... - Carlos Silva sucks at pitching - Jeff Stevens is mediocre at best at pitching - Justin Berg sucks at pitching - Bob Howry really, really, really [expletive] sucks at pitching

Phil Steele's schedule ratings are out, and Iowa State has the most difficult in the country. 1 Iowa St 2 South Carolina 3 UCLA 4 Mississippi St 5 Minnesota 6 Oregon St 7 Washington 8 Miami, Fl 9 Duke 10 LSU

The games were decreasing on WGN steadily anyway, but I do think the fact that the Trib is gone accounts for the stark drop in games this year. I think there were 70-some WGN games in recent years and this year there are under 60. It looks like it was 60 regular season games last year and 63 the year before. Like I said, clearly the sale has nothing to do with the decrease in WGN games. 8-)

Sciambi did at one point do college basketball games on the ESPN networks, I believe he still does.