Gameday Staying In Texas
Monday, October 13, 2008
So instead of heading back into SEC territory for Week Eight of the College Football season, ESPN's College Gameday is staying in the same State as this past weekend. The crew will be making the three hour trek south, from Dallas to Austin, TX, and will on hand for the UT-Mizzou game this Saturday. Via the Statesman....
ESPN’s “College GameDay” should just change its name to the “Texas Longhorn Report.” For the second consecutive week, the ESPN pregame show will air from a Longhorns game.There were a few other choices (OSU-MSU, Vandy-UGA), but in the end it was either following Oklahoma back home to play Kansas, or the game they picked. Seems like the right call even though Mizzou lost last week to Oklahoma State.
“GameDay” will broadcast Saturday morning from the Forty Acres, hours before the primetime ABC clash between Texas and Missouri. The show always draws thousands of clever-sign-waving fans to see Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso and Chris Fowler do their thing (even though those attending can’t really see those guys do much of anything).
No announcement on the location for the set has been made yet (the Myers Stadium soccer field has been used in the past). But ESPN’s CollegeGameDay.com Web site makes it clear that it’ll be in Austin one week after originating from Dallas.
ESPN to bring ‘College GameDay’ to Austin for Mizzou game (Bevo Beat)
Tossin' ice inntertube, Sirah!
Monday, January 15, 2007
Kansas' Freshman phenom guard Sherron Collins scored a career-high 23 points to help the Jayhawks close out a very tight game against arch-rivals the Missouri Tigers.
Missouri is playing the "forty minutes of hell" style that we haven't heard much about since the Arkansas teams of the 90's. Let me tell you, it is a scary thing - they get a hand on everything, run and shoot quickly, and generally run a team ragged. This should be a welcome change from Quinn Snyderball.
But back to Collins. After the game, Sherron gave a post-game interview that showed remarkable poise for an eighteen-year-old, with one small problem: he was winded and high on adrenaline, and mostly forgot to use consonents.
Fortunately, a lifetime of parsing Avery Johnson speeches allowed me to translate the following: "Erelly swami mutumbo sedda scree n'ah toot a shah winfrey oprah".
Translation: Sherron would like to thank his teammates for setting the screens, which enabled him to take the open shot, which more often than not resulted in three points.
Good luck in English 101, rook.
The good news is, while Sasha "Chaka" Kaun played well, he did not star in the game, so we were not forced to sit through a post-game speech by the Siberian transplant, whose interviews have often located all of the consonants Sherron dropd and then thrown in a few more than are strictly necessary.
But seriously, what a great game by both teams. I'll be looking forward to the rematch in Columbia, MO later this season.
