Subject: College Football

• Linehan Vouched for Troubled Football Star Jerramy Stevens

  January 28, 2008

• Linehan Vouched for Troubled Football Star Jerramy Stevens

  January 28, 2008

• Cleveland Rocks! Week on A to Z

  August 18, 2008

• Mizzou Football Has Arrived

  October 6, 2008

• Scott Linehan: I Can See Him Now

  October 20, 2008

• Pinkel's Sportsmanship Has No Place in BCS Universe

  November 10, 2008

• Everyone Can Read Your Facebook Page -- Don't Put Racial Slurs On It (Texas Football Content)

  November 13, 2008

• The Ballad of Turner Gill

  You know, at heart, I'm really an optimistic person. It's hard to spot, I know, as there is this very thick, crusty layer of bitterness and hatred for mankind slathered over that gooey center, but it is there.And then something happens that really shakes that optimism, that makes me think that maybe we really are all too stupid, too ugly, and too violent to ever be what we should be. That maybe that fish that climbed up on to the land a million years ago might just as well have returned to the w

  December 16, 2008

• What to Watch for Tonight as We Remember the Alamo

  Tonight, our beloved Missouri Tigers will take on Northwestern University in the prestigious Alamo Bowl. Well, okay, not "prestigious" in the typical sense. But definitely prestigious in the way that, um, well, um, huh. Maybe prestigious isn't the best word in any sense of it. At any rate, they will be playing. And I'll be watching. Maybe you will be too. 

  December 29, 2008

• Fuzzy Math: Why the BCS Doesn't Work

  So I was in my automobile last night, driving along as I often do, and I heard something really interesting. So interesting, in fact, that I very nearly drove right off the road into some nice person's front yard. Luckily, my reflexes were good enough to save both myself and someone rhododendrons. What I was listening to was that new ESPN affiliate on the FM side of the dial. The number is 101.1; I don't remember what the call letters are (Ed. Note: WXOS). Anyhow, Doug Gottlieb was on, and

  January 8, 2009

• Goal-Line Stand

  December 2, 1998

• The Weekend Rundown

  What we missed in the world of sports this weekend.- The power of Christ compels him. Kurt Warner leads the Arizona Cardinals (!) to the Super Bowl.- Get Bunk and McNulty on the scene. There was a homicide in Pittsburgh on Sunday when Big Ben and Troy Polamalu killed Baltimore's AFC championship dreams.- Just a tad better than last year. SLU beat George Washington 63-59 on Saturday, scoring 43 more points than they did against the Colonels last year when they set a modern record f

  January 19, 2009

• 2009 St. Louis Rams Draft Preview: Offensive Linemen

  I gotta tell you, I think that the NFL draft may be my favorite thing about the NFL. Seems a little weird, I know; one would think that I might prefer, oh, you know, actual games and things like that, but nope. I love the draft in just about every sport, but the NFL draft is the granddaddy of them all. It's like Christmas. Right now, the NFL combine is going on, and players are being judged on pretty much everything but how well they actually play football. They're being measured, and timed

  February 23, 2009

• The 5 Greatest Coach Meltdowns Ever Filmed

  After seeing Jim Calhoun, men's basketball coach at the University of Connecticut, lay into a reporter who asked him about giving back a portion of his salary to help and offset the state's budget shortfall (Calhoun is, in fact, the highest paid state employee in Connecticut), I found myself thinking. No, not about the political or social ramifications of state-funded universities with huge coaching salaries on the books when disability benefits are being curtailed or things like that. No,

  February 24, 2009

• Hit Parade

  March 10, 1999

• Nothin' But Net

  March 24, 1999

• AND NOW, SOME SUPERFICIAL QUESTIONS

  February 2, 2000

• Unreal takes back the Big Red, talks to a Steeler, and dances the inaugural night away
  

  January 28, 2009

• Just for Kicks: St. Louis will field a new professional women's soccer team next spring

  October 1, 2008

• Tigers Attack!

  August 27, 2008

• Faster Than a Speeding Rocket Scientist: Cards rookie Brian Barton chooses baseball over aerospace engineering — for the time being.

  June 25, 2008

• 7-Up vs. Coke, Part 1: From dot-com darling to disaster, the spectacular flameout of Andrew Gladney. Heir to a fortune, Andrew Gladney went from John Burroughs to Yale and came home to found Savvis Inc. Then he squandered it all.

  February 6, 2008

• Benny Benassi

  November 7, 2007

• Gateway to Fun

  This Classic Weekend has it all -- even LL Cool J!

  September 22, 2004

• Get Pucked Up!

  April 4, 2007

• Alley Cat

  Somebody forgot to tell Emil Williams Jr. that bowling is for fat, beer-guzzling honkies

  September 21, 2005

• A Mathews-Dickey coach does all he can to take black kids out to the ballgame.

  April 11, 2007

• Basketball by the Book: A Riverfront Times Investigation

  November 1, 2006

• News to Muse

  The Year in Review: A Quiz

  December 29, 2004

• Schuss, Little Darling

  December 22, 2004

• Best High School Athlete

  September 29, 2004

• Tallboys

  The answer to Larry Bird's prayers for a white basketball savior might reside just off Highway 67 in Poplar Bluff

  September 1, 2004

• Where's Florissant?

  Some Lou denizens feel dissed by Miss USA (but Unreal still loves her!), a Pattonville student is treated criminally, and an 84-year-old grandma praises the Rams in song; plus, we clock local athletes on our gaydar

  April 28, 2004

• Bobs and Weaves

  You gotta have style at Spring Bling '04

  March 24, 2004

• Know News?

  The year in review: A quiz (For answers, see last page)

  December 31, 2003

• Best College Athlete

  Brad Smith
  University of Missouri

  September 24, 2003

• Best Ram

  Aeneas Williams

  September 25, 2002

• The Midas Touch

  February 7, 2001

• Grading the Rams Draft

  It's been over a week now since the NFL draft, specifically since the Rams' draft. I suppose you're wondering at this point, is this guy just really lazy, or a little slow on the uptake? Well, I freely admit to being both of those things, but I also have a reason for writing my draft grades this long after the draft. 

  May 5, 2009

• Nelly and Titans Quarterback Vince Young Make It Rain, Spark Internet Outrage

  Fresh off the St. Lunatics reunion concert at the Pageant this past Sunday, Nelly has taken his show on the road and people have started to take notice. It would be nice if a new hit single was attracting all the attention, but instead he'll have to settle for a struggling NFL quarterback tossing a few wadded up stinkies into the crowd at a benefit concert for a man currently locked for committing felony fraud. (Take a second to process that last sentence. Slam your head on your desk a few time

  May 21, 2009

• Mizzou Earns National Ranking the Easy Way: Doing Nothing

  Tigers: Their back.​For the first time since upsetting University of Illinois in week one of the college football season, the Mizzou Tigers are a "ranked team," earning the No. 24 slot in this week's Associated Press poll. The football team slid into the Top 25 by doing something it hasn't done all season -- not win a game. For the past several weeks the undefeated Tigers had been on the cusp of a national ranking, appearing as one of the top vote-getters among teams not ranked among the natio

  October 5, 2009

• Rams Snatch Defeat From the Jaws Of Victory Against Vikings

  Wikimedia Commons​As miserable as the past seven days have been in the St. Louis sporting world, local fans can take solace in the fact that it could be a hell of a lot worse.Take Seattle and their unfathomably depressing 2008: the Mariners lost 101 games, the Seahawks went 4-12, the once-proud University of Washington (this writer's alma mater) football program didn't win a single game, and the Sonics -- the city's only franchise to win a championship (not counting the WNBA, of course) -- mov

  October 12, 2009

• The Morning Brew: Thursday, 10.15

  ​ Kitchens of the future, featuring your very own biosphere. (Washington Post)California bill would mandate labels for sustainable seafood. (Contra Costa Times)Worlds largest cocktail party at University of Georgia - University of Florida football game gets pooped. (The Sporting News)Archaeologist and founder of Dogfish Head Brewery recreate ancient beer. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

  October 15, 2009

• Will Statue Synonymous with Rejection Help Sell Cars?

  Back off! I'm just here for the trophy.​As everyone has heard by now, times are tough on the auto lot.Even after the incredibly popular "Cash for Clunkers" incentive in August, sales of new cars this year are trailing last year's numbers by 11 percent. As such, auto dealers are trying anything and everything to get customers into the showroom. We're just not so sure that the following is the right, um, sales vehicle for the job. Today the public is invited to visit Auffenberg Nissan

  October 20, 2009

• College Football Fans Make Asses of Themselves on Internet to Win Game Tickets

  There are few easier ways to make an ass of yourself in public than by being a college football fan. The face-painting, the (usually off-key) singing, the shouting, the chanting, the marshmallow-throwing, the growling, the grunting, the hooting, the horns-hooking. The only redeeming factor is that when you do all these things, you are usually surrounded by a stadium full of like-minded idiots.flickr.com/photos/finitefocusUniversity of Missouri fans. In case you couldn't tell.​Now Hershey's has

  October 23, 2009

• 7 Coaches Who Should Replace Charlie Weis at Notre Dame

  Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis could be out at the end of the season. But should replace him?​As we near the end of another college football season, one of America's favorite subjects rises again: What happens to Notre Dame? Why is this non-story a story? Yu don't have to look far -- whether in St. Louis or in any other part of the country -- Notre Dame fans, however obnoxious or uppity, are everywhere. Since Lou Holtz left the Irish after the '96 season, the national relevance of the pr

  November 19, 2009