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Tuscola Kid, Part 5

Posted on December 22, 2006 | Comments Off on Tuscola Kid, Part 5

Colt, the Big 12’s offensive freshman of the year, is cleared to play in the Alamo Bowl, according to Cedric Golden in the Austin daily:

"McCoy has been evaluated regularly since sustaining a severe pinched nerve in his neck against Texas A&M on Nov. 24. [Texas athletic trainer Kenny] Boyd said McCoy passed a thorough group of on-field and off-field tests before being released to play."

Of course, you remember that he was cleared to play for the A&M game, after his first nerve injury against Kansas State. So who knows? You would suppose if it doesn’t happen again against Iowa, we can figure he’s okay and the Horns’ hopes for 2007 are in good shape. And if it does happen again, his career might be over before it really begins, and then we’d have to see if backup QB Sherrod Harris, a high school standout and 4.0 student, is anything special in college ball. For more on Colt and his fans, see this site.

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Snead to Ole Miss

Posted on December 18, 2006 | Comments Off on Snead to Ole Miss

Jevan Snead, the tall, blonde former freshman Texas QB who almost saved the Longhorns against Kansas State when redshirt-freshman QB Colt McCoy was injured and left the game in the first quarter, has committed to play for the University of Mississippi. I guess we can be happy he at least won’t be playing in the Big 12, since he’s good enough to pose a threat. Strange kid, in a way. You’d think he’d have been willing to gamble on riding the bench a while longer, considering Colt was injured twice in the same way–pinched nerve–in back to back games and isn’t certain for the Horns’ bowl game. Transferring means Snead’ll have another year of ildness, sitting out all of the Rebels’ games in 2007 under NCAA rules.

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Vince, the roll continues

Posted on December 17, 2006 | Comments Off on Vince, the roll continues

Jacksonville 17, Tennessee 24. All the stats here. Story as soon as there is one.

UPDATE  Story here. It wasn’t Vince’s game, until the very end, but considering the worst defense in the league spent most of the game on the field, and won the game forcing turnovers, you have to believe Vince’s charisma had something to do with it. Oh, yeah.

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12th Man or 12th Imam? You decide.

Posted on December 13, 2006 | Comments Off on 12th Man or 12th Imam? You decide.

While the mad Iranian president hosts his make-believe conference of the history-challenged discussing whether the Holocaust actually occurred, Roger L. Simon has come up with a brilliant idea: a counter symposium on whether the 12th Imam actually exists, or is this mythic religious figure proof of insanity in his believers–like the president of Iran? We already know he’s mad.

I have just the venue, the Holiday Bowl in San Diego. Because it could be that a tragic misspelling has been at work here all along. In other words: is the 12th Imam a genuine religious figure? Or merely the misunderstood 12th Man of Texas A&M University football?

Will the 12th Imam (12th Man?) make an appearance at the 50 yard line at the upcoming game when Texas A&M surely will beat California? Will the mad president of Iran be in a luxury box? Will he be suited up in maroon to step in to aid the team? Or are his followers just maroons? Watch the game Dec. 28 and find out!

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Vince

Posted on December 11, 2006 | Comments Off on Vince

The Longhorns sure missed him this year–and the Houston Texans–but he’s got bigger fish to fry.

"He doesn’t believe he’s going to lose. He’s comfortable with the game on his shoulders, at his best when the stakes are the highest."

Via Houston Chronicle 

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The computers have spoken

Posted on December 4, 2006 | Comments Off on The computers have spoken

Go Gators, Badgers, Trojans, Scarlet Knights, Sooners, Red Raiders, Aggies, and Longhorns! Oh, and the Owls, too.

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Rice gets a bowl

Posted on November 29, 2006 | Comments Off on Rice gets a bowl

Nice to see Rice University going to a bowl game this year, for the first time since 1961–the New Orleans Bowl on Friday night, Dec. 22. Especially after their disastrous 1-10 season last year. Though they are often no more than a doormat to the Longhorns in the regular season, the Owls nevertheless are a pretty fair team, usually, and one suspects their 7-5 season this year has a lot to do with their new offensive coordinator Major Applewhite, still the favorite quarterback of many Longhorns fans (including me), or at least a close second to Vince.

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