GETTING THE CARNIE FOLK TO GO GREEN by Neate Sager, Out Of Left Field Happy July 4, eh. No doubt on the birthday of the greatest country of the world, you're mulling over the reality that it's pretty slow time on the sports calendar, nothing but baseball all the way until about Labour Day. Well, it doesn't have to be that way. The CFL season is upon us - frequent kicking, single points for missed field goals and ties, you bet! (We've got the NCAA-style overtime shootout, but it ends after two possessions per team, so it happens.Kansas Jayhawks vs Colorado Buffaloes Basketball Tickets.

There's Cupcakery Afoot Tickets, You can accuse Syracuse football of many things but one of them, even despite the fact that Northeastern is sitting on our upcoming schedule, is that we do not have a history of cupcakery. But who are the kings of cupcakin'? Leave it to the Wizard of Odds to figure.t out. One note though.".this is NOT a study of how difficult a team's non-conf schedule actually was. Instead, this study attempts to measure how difficult a non-conf schedule a team tried to arrange.".Fair enough. What.

2008 One-and-Dones - Was It Worth It? Kansas Jayhawks vs Colorado Buffaloes Tickets, Happy Fiscal New Year, everyone!  Along with the turn of the fiscal calendar, July 1 also represents the turn of the academic calendar.  This is particularly appropriate for hoopheads, as the NBA's season has ended and the draft madness that dominated bandwidth for the last two months after the Mario Miracle has died down to a whimper (well, there's always 2009, right?).  All there really is to look forward to until October is the Ego Known as Kobe Bryant's attempt.tore American hegem.

ESPY Nominees Announced I know this seems like a filler post (and it us), but I figured I'd give ESPN a spot here on a slow news day. Here are your ESPY Award finalists for 2008 and there are certainly some interesting categories and nominees to talk about. Most notably and almost sacreligious is the fact that ESPN has nominated Barry Bonds for Best Recording Breaking Performance. I don't know if they have something worked out ahead of time but after the way ESPN covered him the past year I don't know if he's showing . NCAA.

Date(s) w Kansas? Kansas Jayhawks vs Colorado Buffaloes, From Gary Bedore on KUSports.com KU vs UCLA? Adam Zagoria of zagsblog.net writes that KU will begin a home-and-home series with UCLA in 2009-10. KU senior associate athletic director Larry Keating, who is charge of the Jayhawks? scheduling, said if that series happens, it'd be part of the Big 12/Pac 10 Hardwood Challenge series.We?d like to play them? Keating said of the Bruins.We?ve talked in general about it with them in the past. We play Arizona this year (in the challenge).

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Celtics Get Wings at Draft J.R. Giddens  With their 1st round pick (30th overall), the Celtics drafted J.R. Giddens. a 6? 5? wing player with some incredible pre-draft measurements including leaping ability (42-inch vertical), wingspan (6? 11?) and standing reach (8?8?). The wing span is exceptional for sure, only an inch shorter than Michael Beasely and Kevin Love, taken 3 and 4 in the draft.  Giddens was named co-Western Conference Player of the Year last season, when he averaged 16.3 points on 51.5 percent shooting. College Basketball.

Miami Heat Draft Recap: The Ghost of Harold Miner Has Been Exorcized tickets, When NBA commissioner David Stern walked up to the microphone last night and said?With the second pick in the 2008 NBA draft the Miami Heat select? there was a collective sphincter-clenching angst .that shot across Heat Nation.Oh shit? we all thought breathlessly'are we going to hear any other name besides Michael Beasley, and if so, are we allowed to riot immediately? Would the Heat actually have their own version of the Miami Dolphins 2007 NFL Draft when, rather than taking a potentia.

Finally, Darrell Arthur is drafted. at No. 27 The Hornets draft Kansas's Darrell Arthur, who dropped in the drafted because of a kidney issue, with the No. 27 pick. ESPN is reporting that Portland has traded with New Orleans for the rights to Arthur, who averaged 12.8 points for the Jayhawks last year. Next up: Memphis (via Lakers).tickets.

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