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Bah dah bah bah bah. Let's start with this. I wasn't there. Tyler wasn't there. We broke our 3-year streak of either him or me covering a game in person last March when I had to leave Omaha to attend to a personal matter

Exactly two days after I graduated from the University of Illinois in May 1997, my father and I packed up my 1993 Toyota Camry and drove across the country to Los Angeles, where I was scheduled, one week later, to start a job at U. The National College Magazine. Older

I didn't include all of the usual bullet points that go at the end of nearly every gamer on this site. So I need to fix that real quick. (I think that's the first time I've ever used the word "gamer" here.

I have an unofficial research department. His name is Nathan. And he's been looking things up (and building spreadsheets for me) for 10+ years. When I think I see something for the first time – like the combined three point shooting in the Oakland basketball game last month – I

This has been unlike any other bowl week for me. I wrote about it the first day I got here and it remains the same tonight less than 18 hours until game time. These SOC posts are always a long ramble down Here's What's On My

Yes, it's after 11:00 pm EST and I'm just now remembering to publish Those Were The Days. Hey, it gives you two things to read in the morning. You can read the SOC and you can read what Detlef thought about the 1994 Liberty Bowl.

This one…was never in doubt. Chicago State is quite simply one of the worst teams in college basketball. This is evident by record - they are one of only three winless teams in D-1 college hoops (Jackson State, Canisius, and Alcorn State are the others), and this is evident