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Darin Erstad Named New Nebraska Baseball Coach
The Lincoln Journal Star has confirmed that Darin Erstad will be named the new Husker baseball coach at a 3:30 PM press conference this afternoon. Erstad has never been held a head coaching position, having served last season as the team's volunteer coach. He was supposed to help the team increase...
CURIOUS INDEX, 8/7/09
'Cause it's Friday, you ain't got no football, and you ain't got s#!t to do. Break yo' self, fool -- the preseason USA Today Coaches' Poll has been released in all its premature, ghostvoted glory. Rest assured Holly and I will get around to a withering dissection of everything that's...
TERRY BOWDEN, CYCLOLNE?
We're attempting to do about seventy different things at once this morning--packing, filing a column, various bureaucratic tasks of a a nature so mundane they don't bear specifying, dissolving bones in lye huh?--that we almost didn't notice this: (Note: Read in Foghorn Leghorn voice for maximum...
SPURRIER IS BOWDEN HEAD EXPLODING THANK YOU
Live long enough, and you will see your hero become your oppressor, and then morph into your doppelganger, and then just at the end will change into your demon tormentor just long enough to reach through a wall, grab you with its ferocious claws, and scream until its head falls off just like the...
CURIOUS INDEX, 12/4/07
Show me your scruples... If you weren't quite convinced that this whole BCS system is a giant, steaming pile of elephant dung, you will be once you get through the coaches ballots. Among my favorties: **Lllloyd Carr - the 4 L version - voted his Wolverines 21st, a full ten spots ahead of...
BLOGTOBERFEST!!!REGGIE BUSH'S SECOND FUMBLE
You don't make mosaics without breaking a little pottery. Here's today's fine tilework. Before Photoshop, life was a dull, grey waste, filled with marauding hyenas and only the chill of the north wind to keep you company. Via the standard chain of labyrinthine links (Heisgirl to BurntOrangeNation...
WHEN DID THIS START?
When did FSU begin this long, slow, and sad descent into mediocrity? Who cares? It really doesn't matter, as long as it's dead, right? For historical purposes, we think the long slide to tonight's Emerald Bowl loss (positive thinking positive thinking positive thinking) began long, long ago with...
BOWLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: EMERALD BOWL PREVIEW
Name: The Emerald Bowl. Our fingers really just wanted to keep typing here--whaaa? No improbably clunky secondary sponsor? No long modifiers? No Pioneer Purevision Bell Helicopteredness?--but that's it. The Emerald Bowl, brought to you by Chan Gailey. Actually, as we'll remind you several times...
COACH KILLER: EBAY
No supplements needed on Bobby Bowden's explanation for his son's inability to call anything besides a square-in, jump ball, or blown-up screen as an offensive coordinator: As for why things didn't work out, he didn't point to statistics or won-lost records. "Because you all ignited it," he said to...
CHOW NOT GOING TO FSU. ASK KING BIRENDRA ABOUT IT.
We have five simple rules to life. They are based upon observation, experiment, and peer reviewed statements made in numerous bars across the world between the hours of seven p.m. and 4 a.m. They are: 1. Things will go wrong. 2. People never change, and never will. 3. People continue to make the...
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