Opinion 2012: The Year in Sports Funny
January
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NEWS
Greatest Conference Ever Sets the Sport of Football Back 30 Years
Detroit Tigers' Team Nutritionist Resigns
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Picture SEC Fans are Nothing if Not Confident
Let's just make it into two countries along those lines and be done with it.
News Big East Resting Comfortably, Surrounded by Family and Friends
"It's over. It fought the good fight, but it's time to say goodbye," said former Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese, who said his goodbyes to the conference today. "Memories will never die. The Big East will live on wherever there are people who care about college basketball."
The conference has been left for dead repeatedly in recent years as it fought for survival, but its recent loss of Rutgers to the Big Ten followed by the conference's basketball-only schools looking to leave were too much to endure.
"I thought the Big East was gone when Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College left," said SEC commissioner Mike Slive. "But they fought on, even through the loss of Pitt and Syracuse. It was inspirational. Sad, but inspirational."
Picture Lane Kiffin's Face Suggests He is a Liar
Also, all other things Lane Kiffin does suggest he is a liar.
Picture Bobby Petrino Looks Like Western Kentucky's Big Red Blob Mascot
They both apparently were skinned bloody after skidding across pavement.
Opinion Recent Heisman Winners: Where Are They Now?
RG3 is the greatest young quarterback ever.
2010: Cam Newton, QB, Auburn
Cam Newton works as a professional quarterback in the NFL and is the former greatest young quarterback ever.
2009: Mark Ingram, Jr., RB, Alabama
Today Mark Ingram is known primarily as a running back that fantasy football team owners kick themselves for picking.
2008: Sam Bradford, QB, Oklahoma
Bradford's main claim to fame in present day is being the Heisman-winning Oklahoma quarterback who had a slightly better pro career than Jason White.
2007: Tim Tebow, QB, Florida
Five years after winning the Heisman, Tim Tebow works as a sports debate topic.
Opinion The 7 Best Sports Christmas Carols
O Little Town of Buffalo
Oh, little town of Buffalo
how still we see thee lose.
Why do you go to all these games?
The only reason's booze.
Do They Know It's Christmas? (SEC Edition)
There's a world outside your conference
And it's a world of misery
Where the only bowls they're winning
Are the Belk and Liberty
And the athletes that play there
Are so slow and full of doom
We'll, tonight, thank God, it's them
Instead of you
