Stories tagged with "mike smith"

The Shotgun/Throwdown: Brawl Hangover (1/31/12) Edition

by WVUIE97 on Jan 31, 2012 8:31 AM CST on The Smoking Musket

Welcome, By-Godders, to the Shotgun/Throwdown, WVU's nationally recognized best place for sports links, information, sophomoric humor and daily distractions. We're being brought to you today by Avery Brewing's Maharaja IPA. Seriously, I hate Hate HATE losing to that team. Did I mention that I...

The Shotgun/Throwdown: Capital Classic Hangover (1/19/12) Edition

by WVUIE97 on Jan 19, 2012 8:21 AM CST on The Smoking Musket

Welcome, By-Godders, to the Shotgun/Throwdown, WVU's nationally recognized best place for sports links, information, sophomoric humor and daily distractions. We're being brought to you today by Blithering Idiot Ale. Today we have complete coverage of the Mountaineer victory last night in the...

Demaryius Thomas and Calvin Johnson leading ACC Alum in NFL Playoffs

by BirdGT on Jan 10, 2012 7:00 AM CST on From The Rumble Seat

In the 2011 NFL playoffs, 5,524 yards of total offense were accumulated in 4 wild card games. Over 72% of that yardage came from BCS conference alums. The SEC alums led all conferences with 1,561 yards of offense in the NFL wild card round. The ACC was second with 1,278. The B1G, Big 12, Pac 10,...

Uh Oh Bango Strong In The San Pasqual; Out Of Bounds Takes The Sham With A Late Rally

by Matt Gardner on Jan 7, 2012 7:51 PM CST on And Down The Stretch They Come

The first three-year-old graded stakes race in Southern California took place today at Santa Anita with Out Of Bounds running past Breeders' Cup Juvenile Sprint winner Secret Circle in the final furlong to win the G3-Sham Stakes. Out Of Bounds, a son of Discreet Cat out of an Unbridled's Song mare...

Jason Cole Calls Drew Brees Classless

by Dave Cariello on Dec 27, 2011 10:28 AM CST on Canal Street Chronicles

In his latest Yahoo! Sports article, Jason Cole discusses last night's Saints vs. Falcons Monday Night Football game and Drew Brees' record-breaking performance. Unfortunately, he's not too happy about the way Brees, head coach Sean Payton and the Saints went about breaking that record. Here's...

Saints Sign Offensive Lineman Mike Smith

by Jon Banks on Jul 26, 2011 3:33 PM CDT on Canal Street Chronicles

The Saints have now signed/negotiated their twelfth undrafted free agent. The latest is offensive tackle Mike Smith out of Nebraska. The news comes from California Strength, Smith's training company: Congrats to our ProDay/Combine prep guys! Oregon WR Jeff Maehl headed to the Houston Texans and...

Weekend Stakes Re-Cap

by Matt Gardner on May 31, 2011 2:26 PM CDT on And Down The Stretch They Come

Tizway rolled in the Met Mile. Keertana beats the boys at Churchill. Amazombie gets taken down at Hollywood after Mike Smith and Chantal Sutherland trade paint in the stretch. Eight-year-old Awesome Gem wins a race for senior citizens everywhere. And the Breeders' Cup Classic division looks like...

PREAKNESS 2011: Reviewing The Day at Pimlico

by Matt Gardner on May 22, 2011 10:23 AM CDT on And Down The Stretch They Come

The thoughts below will follow no particular pattern, sort of like the Preakness at Old Hilltop yesterday. You spend all these days looking at the form and the past performances and you get to a point that you envision a certain pace scenario. Yesterday, that scenario looked like a speed duel...

2011 PREAKNESS RESULT: Shackleford Denies Animal Kingdom (with Video Replay)

by Matt Gardner on May 21, 2011 5:26 PM CDT on And Down The Stretch They Come

Shackleford, the 4th place finisher at the Derby after leading most of the way, survived a quick duel in the opening quarter mile and then relaxed on the front-end and held off a hard charging Animal Kingdom to win the Preakness at Pimlico. Animal Kingdom, the Kentucky Derbby winner, split horses...

PREAKNESS 2011: Results and Open Thread

by Matt Gardner on May 21, 2011 8:07 AM CDT on And Down The Stretch They Come

Time to get your Preak on! The 136th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico is set to go to post at 6:18pm Easter Time this afternoon. Animal Kingdom made it from Fair Hill to Pimlico this morning on what is looking like a very nice day in the Baltimore area.(Blood-Horse: Animal Kingdom Arrives...