Off on a Tangent by Dean Austin With a nod to the great Peter King at SI. I religiously read his Monday Morning Quarterback every week and even if he does go on a bit much, sometimes, about Mary Beth and various Coffee antics – he still rocks. Ten College […]
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Big West Offseason Update
Big West Offseason News Update by Dean Austin You know, when one of the biggest pieces of news during the off season is one school putting in a new scoreboard, it might be time for a little more excitement in your conference. Certainly no conference wishes to go through the […]
989 Sports Final Four 2003
Review: NCAA Final Four 2003 by Dean Austin Title: NCAA Final Four 2003 Publisher: 989 Sports Platform: Playstation 2 Score (out of 10): 6 Help support Hoopville. Click to purchase through Amazon.com Seconds to go in this tight MAC Championship. Top seeded Central Michigan with the ball and down […]
Abar Rouse
Can it get any more Wacko in Waco? by Dean Austin Ever read the Phil Taylor column on si.com? You should; intelligent, provocative and never boring, Taylor is the epitome of today’s top sportswriter. He’s also flat out wrong when it comes to the case of Baylor whistleblower Abar Rouse. […]
March Madness 2003 Review
Review: NCAA March Madness 2003 by Dean Austin Title: NCAA March Madness 2003 Publisher: EA Sports Platform: Playstation 2 Score (out of 10): 7 Help support Hoopville. Click to purchase through Amazon.com In many ways the sport of college basketball has been an after thought in the very successful […]
Off on a Tangent
Off on a Tangent by Dean Austin I’m back from summer vacation as Hoopville Managing Editor Andrew Flynn watches his beloved Diamondbacks, known here in Northern California as the Eight-and-a-half Backs, plummet in the NL West standings. I had thought it difficult to envision a more surreal off-season and then […]
Patrick Dennehy Coverage
All the News That Isn’t Fit to Print by Dean Austin I write this today on our Nation’s birthday (although it will be posted later) and my thoughts turn to our rights, of the First Amendment, our right to privacy, the presumption of innocence and the right of due process. […]
Neuheisel, Nuances, and the NCAA
Of Neuheisel, Nuances and NCAA by Dean Austin Once again I find myself fascinated; apparently this will be a continuing theme, by a current news story. This time it is the attempt by the University of Washington to fire their football coach Rick Neuheisel. Curiously the spellchecker threw up nutshell […]
Off the Front Rim
Off the Front Rim by Dean Austin find myself fascinated by the story of Jayson Blair, the disgraced former New York Times scribe who resigned after allegedly filing false reports. Tom Goldstein in an article well worth reading in the San Francisco Chronicle opinioned, “No breach of faith in modern […]
