Motivation/Inspiration
Whatever happened to that old-time SEC parity?    SEC teams have taken four straight BCS championships, and the conference is overwhelmingly favored to make it five in a row.  Yahoo! Sports, 7-19-10
 
Study: winning football games favors incumbents    A new study, “Irrelevant events affect voters’ evaluations of government performance,” shows a link between the success of major college teams and the likelihood of incumbent re-elections.  PNAS.org, 7-6-10
 
June 2010
Love and Basketball: John Wooden as Coach    Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author probes some unique slants of John Wooden’s mastery of coaching.   Pat Dobel, Point of the Game.com, 6-10-10
 
May 2010
Spring game attendance for BCS schools    The Final Four is over, football season has begun, and spring games have drawn record crowds.   Sporting News.com, 5-5-10
 
Can You Hear Them Now?   Penn State is moving its student section at Beaver Stadium in order to take advantage of the stadium’s unique structure in a way to help amplify the crowd noise. acoustics.org, 5-6-10
 
April 2010
College FB's best home-field advantages   Home games result in more W’s than away games, but for some football programs the advantage is more pronounced than others.   Sporting News, 4-27-10
 
Year-round madness     From the lunacy of March Madness to ubiquity of ESPN Everything/Everywhere, sports in America have become bigger than ever. Is this healthy?   Christian Science Monitor, 4-3-10
 
March 2010
College Ball's Talent Deficit (and Why It Doesn't Matter)   The sheer ability of players on the floor is down, but March is as mad as ever.   Wall Street Journal, 3-18-10
 
Mastering the Art of Upsetology   Forget slumps, streaks and threes—WSJ research shows turnovers matter most; look out for Old Dominion.   By Darren Everson, Wall Street Journal, 3-16-10
 
February 2010
The Emergence of Harvard Hoops   Behind Coach Tommy Amaker and star guard Jeremy Lin, Harvard is breaking new ground and making a name for itself in an area other than academics.   Sports Illustrated, 2-1-10
 
Calipari, UK score with ‘Hoops for Haiti’    The frenetic coach morphed into TV producer/host to round up donors, auction items, gifts and anything else anyone could think of to. He had 90 minutes of live TV to fill.   By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports, 1-21-10
 
January 2010
UA Athletics assists Lift Up America    More than 130 Razorback student-athletes participated in a weekend food load-up for the Northwest Arkansas Food Bank.  arkansasrazorbacks.com, 1-23-10
 
Sorry Kentucky, No One Will Beat Indiana's Undefeated Record    Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author muses on the unlikelihood of another big-time men’s basketball team running the table. By Terence Moore, FanHouse, 1-21-10
 
“Military efficiency” is not an oxymoron    AD Eric Hyman has parlayed his military background into sage and sound stewardship of South Carolina’s athletic department. The State, 1-24-10
 
Shifting Ground on the Sidelines   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author writes about football coaches behaving badly, and then being fired for it. By Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed, 1-13-10
 
Tennessee Upsets Top-Ranked Kansas With Six Scholarship Players   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author – a Tennessee football nut – took in a UT men's basketball game versus #1 Kansas – and guess who won?   By Clay Travis, Fanhouse, 1-10-10
 
Abuse by coaches a disturbing trend    Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author explores the evolution of tough-guy football coaching.  By Joey Johnston, Tampa Tribune, Tampa Tribune, 1-10-10
 
A very long time without   Northwestern University, famous for academics and an occasional good football team, has never been to the Big Dance. SI.com 1-11-10
 
When the press conference is the highlight   Clips Eyewitness Report   Our Clips correspondent took in an Illinois and # 23 Gonzaga men’s basketball game recently at the United Center in Chicago. It was a great game, but our man focused on the press conference.   Kevin Long, MVP Media Training, 1-5-10
 
ESPN picks the ‘Aughts’ best college basketball players and coaches   The “Staff” at ESPN selects the decade’s best college basketball players and coaches.  ESPN.com, 12-31-09
 
ESPN ranks the decade's best college basketball games   The “Staff” at ESPN selects the decade’s best college basketball tournament and non-tournament games.   ESPN, 12-28-09
 
FOXSports: The decade's best in college football   Fox’s Peter Schrager has selected his version of the best of the ‘Aughts.   FOXSports, 12-21-09
 
ESPN: Best teams of the aughts   From the sagacious scribes at ESPN comes their opine of the decade’s best teams and programs.   ESPN.com, 12-31-09
 
December 2009
The 10 best NCAA basketball players of the decade   To commemorate the winding down of the decade of the aughts, the Yahoo! Sports “Dagger” has been churning out one top ten list after another. Here’s their take on the 10 best college players of the 2000s.  Yahoo! Sports, 11-27-09
 
College basketball’s best and worst of the aughts   The year-end brings on a rush of lists, and here’s are the picks of SI.com’s Seth Davis.   SI.com, 12-16-09
 
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