Your MLB Announcing Schedule For The Weekend Well this little schedule looks familiar doesn't it? I'm sorry to say it Baseball fans but you're stuck with the Red Sox and New York and Chicago teams for just about the rest of the Summer. ESPN is even going the whole month of July with either a New York team or Boston on Sunday Night Baseball! Well you do get to see the stellar Rockies take on the Mets on July 13th. So you've got that going for you.which is nice. I'm sure Joe Buck will be extra prepared this weekend, so enjoy the games.Louisville cardinals Basketball Tickets. 2008-2009 College Basketball Pre-Season Rankings Tickets, Here's an early look at our pre-season College Basketball Rankings since the NBA Draft is over with. 1. North Carolina Tar Heels The Tar Heels have to be the clear-c.ut favorites for next year. Basically everybody returns, Player of the year Tyler Hansbrough is back along with speedy PG Ty Lawson and sharpshooter Wayne Ellington. UNC will be deep and talented. Their guards will be one of the best in the nation. Backup PG Bobby Frasor is back from injury and Danny Green decided to pull. Not Much Left in Cardinals' Nest If Louisville fans didn't have enough to scream about, last week's report that 20 scholarship underclassmen have left Steve Kragthorpe's team since the end of spring practice in 2007 certainly put them over the top. Reasons for the departures vary. Some players were kicked off for behavior problems, some transferred to other teams and others simply quit. Although Kragthorpe says he will have.5 scholarship players this fall, he has lost what amounts to a full recruiting class. Given the turnov. Louisville cardinals Tickets. Top 10 Underrated Non-Conference Games NCAA, Hey, this is Eric from the blog Saturday Sound Offs. I'm glad to have joined the crew over here at In the Bleachers! Here, we have, at least what I consider to be, the ten most underrated non-conference games of the 2008 season. So, yeah, most on the list will consist of non-BCS programs. These games are listed mainly due to a mixture of the meaning of the game, how good it will actually be, and the hype surrounding it. So let's begin: 10. Central Michigan @ Georgia This is a game. Olney's Latest: Wolf, Lohse, Sabathia, Fuentes, Oswalt, Bailey Louisville cardinals, Buster Olney has a new column up. Let's take a look: He suggests Randy Wolf.".possible trade chip.".with the Padres looking increasingly out of it this year. One problem: Wolf has veto power over trades to 14 teams. He's been decent this year, with a 4.13 ERA and 89 strikeouts in 98 innings, but nothing to get too excited over. Gossip item: the Mets could have had Kyle Lohse for what the Cardinals are paying ($4.25MM), only Omar Minaya passed. Olney doesn't see much in the speculation about . CURIOUS INDEX, 6/27/2008 Football is thug-roman-a-cleffish: Pat White really, really likes him some Hov. His Heisman promo site features a ten-song playlist from his iPod, and seventy percent of it is Jay-Z. No selections from the Grey Album, a travesty we'll have to correct by sending him an email in his inbox, another feature of the site where you are free to ask him drooling questions about what it's like to be touched by Erin Andrews. Football is technical and awesome. PROST! Brian's 2007 piece on zone . NCAA College Basketball Tickets. Creative Defenses in Contract Litigation College Basketball, The sports fans among you may have seen the story about the University of Louisville suing Duke University (dear alma mater) over football games that weren't played. In short, the two schools signed a contract to play a series of four games, but Duke backed out after one (a 40-3 pasting at the hands of the Cardinals, if I recall). The contract specified that Duke would owe damages if UL could not reschedule against.".team of similar stature.".The punch line is that Duke football is currently. Fresno State Wins National Championship Not only did the cinderella team, the Fresno State Bulldogs, defeat the favorites, the Georgia Bulldogs, but they destroyed Georgia's pitching staff in the process.nlikely champions, who happened to be the lowest seeded team to win any College Championship, tied USC's record for most runs scored in a single College World Series (62). Fresno State went 4-0 in the WAC tournament, and defeated Nevada 6-4 for the championship on May 25th. The Bulldogs went 5-0 in elimination games throughout.tickets. Kentucky to Papajohns.com Bowl? tickets, Always an early starter, ESPN's Mark Schlabach takes a deep, early look into his college football crystal ball and offers beat-the-pack bowl projections for 2008. Good news, Kentucky. Mark sees Rick Brooks' team in its third consecutive bowl game. This time, the Papajohns.com Bowl in Mobile Birmingham would be the destination where the Cats would play Rutgers. Not to worry, Louisville. After a one-year absence, the Cardinals will be back in the bowl mix, says Schlabach. He has Steve Kragthorpe. Duke Football: So Bad, Even a Judge Agrees .".Blue Devil must taste like chicken.".- commenter CardsOneCatsTwo in the Louisville Courier-Journal HOW BAD IS DUKE FOOTBALL? Consider the following. The Duke Blue Devils backed out of a contract to play the University of Louisville Cardinals in football. This annoyed the Cardinals, which sought to enforce a contract provision that would require Duke to pay $150,000 per game if a team.".similar stature.".could not be found to play Louisville as a replacement. But Duke's lawyers successfu.tickets. |