We are one week away. Only 7 days. Next Thursday evening. Its college football time again.
The lineup may not be laden with heavy hitters, but there are some pretty good matchups, I think. The marquee game will be the Gamecocks of South Carolina versus the Wolfpack of North Carolina State. This game will carried by ESPN, with a kickoff time of 7:00 p.m. eastern.
As the Ol’ Ball Coach prepares for his 5th season as the top cock-of-the-walk, he does so with the expectations of being “middle of the pack” in the SEC east. Visiting Raleigh to play the Wolfpack will not be the easiest feat, but the Gamecocks need this win. Without that momentum, it could be a very difficult following week with a trip to Athens, Georgia waiting on them.
Other games on Thursday night see North Dakota State visiting Gene Chizic’s former troops at Iowa State, and North Texas at up-and-coming Ball State (David Letterman gives a cheer from the Ed Sullivan Theater!)
And finally, for those who can’t sleep on Thursday night, don’t take a Tylenol PM. Just keep your television on ESPN, and at 10:15 pm EST you will see Oregon at Boise State. And before you snooze in your recliner, this may actually be the best game of the night. Oregon enters the game at #16, and Boise State enters at #14. There is a lot on the line for these two programs.
And just in case your double espresso of college football on Thursday night doesn’t get you through to Saturday’s big kickoff day, you can tune in to ESPN on Friday night and catch Gus Mulzahn’s former Tulsa team square off in the Big Easy against the Green Wave of Tulane. Friday night on Bourbon Street. Could it get any sweeter?
Saturday’s lineup looks like this:
For all you early-morning Bloody-Mary types:
12:00 Noon Eastern
Kentucky at Miami (Ohio) ESPNU
WKU at Tennessee SEC Network
Navy at Ohio State ESPN
Minn. at Syracuse ESPN2
1:00 PM Eastern
Jax State at Ga. Tech ESPN360
For the Tailgating crowd:
3:30 PM Eastern
Georgia at Okla. State ABC
Jackson St. at Miss. St ESPNU
Missouri at Illinois ESPN
Baylor at Wake Forest ESPN2
And finally, for the Dinner-Time night games:
7:00 PM Eastern
La. Tech at Auburn ESPNU
Mo. State at Arkansas ESPN360
8:00 PM Eastern
Alabama vs. Va. Tech ABC
10:00 PM Eastern
Maryland at California ESPN2
10:30 PM Eastern
LSU at Washington ESPN
So…hope you get enough college football next week…it’s the first full week. Don’t be like the little boy at the church dinner-on-the grounds, though. He ate so much that it made him sick. He never wanted to see another spread of food like that again. At least, until the next time.
WJLaneSR.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Swine Flu Alert
The H1N1 virus is a serious threat. The World Health Organization raised the pandemic level to 5 a couple of months back, which basically meant that it was spreading from country to country.
The company I work for has taken the H1N1 threat very seriously. We have put into place contingency plans “just in case” the pandemic becomes a problem.
But let’s be honest. The H1N1 flu hasn’t been as fatal as first thought. In fact, more people are dying in this country from the REGULAR flu strain than from H1N1.
Of course, autumn isn’t here yet, and that’s when flu season really begins.
Which begs the question….when all of us tailgater, road-tripper, football fans gather in large stadiums this fall….will we be subjecting ourselves to the H1N1 flu? I don’t know.
But Ole Miss sure seems to be concerned about it.
In a press release from their Althletic Department, Ole Miss has reacted quite strangely to the H1N1 threat. Here is the release and I quote: OXFORD, Miss. - In an abundance of caution regarding the potential exposure of various flu strains, Ole Miss officials announced Tuesday that Saturday's planned "Meet the Rebels Day" has been cancelled for this year.
"After consultation with our team physicians and Coach Houston Nutt, we felt it was in the best interest of our football team to cancel this year's 'Meet the Rebels Day'," said Ole Miss Athletics Director Pete Boone.
"While we may be over cautious regarding the flu, our season opener is less than three weeks away and we can't take any chances," Nutt said. "We certainly regret not being able to interact with our fans at this time."
I gotta tell you, I don't know if I have ever seen anything quite like this. I was TOTALLY taken back by this announcement from the Rebel Athletic Department.
But after thinking about it a while, I finally understood.
You see, H1N1 is also known as……SWINE FLU.
The Reverend Head Coach Houston Nutt has tried very hard at Ole Miss to distance himself from his days at Arkansas as the Head Boar Hog. He won't even use the name "Arkansas" around Oxford...only calling it "that school." And it makes perfect sense that he wouldn’t want anything swine related around his current football program. They are a pre-season top ten pick, are coming off a great year last year, had a very good recruiting year, and some say will contend for the SEC West championship. Why would he want to upset his apple cart over H1N1?
After all, you could say it was “swine flu” that got him run off from Arkansas.
WJLaneSR
The company I work for has taken the H1N1 threat very seriously. We have put into place contingency plans “just in case” the pandemic becomes a problem.
But let’s be honest. The H1N1 flu hasn’t been as fatal as first thought. In fact, more people are dying in this country from the REGULAR flu strain than from H1N1.
Of course, autumn isn’t here yet, and that’s when flu season really begins.
Which begs the question….when all of us tailgater, road-tripper, football fans gather in large stadiums this fall….will we be subjecting ourselves to the H1N1 flu? I don’t know.
But Ole Miss sure seems to be concerned about it.
In a press release from their Althletic Department, Ole Miss has reacted quite strangely to the H1N1 threat. Here is the release and I quote: OXFORD, Miss. - In an abundance of caution regarding the potential exposure of various flu strains, Ole Miss officials announced Tuesday that Saturday's planned "Meet the Rebels Day" has been cancelled for this year.
"After consultation with our team physicians and Coach Houston Nutt, we felt it was in the best interest of our football team to cancel this year's 'Meet the Rebels Day'," said Ole Miss Athletics Director Pete Boone.
"While we may be over cautious regarding the flu, our season opener is less than three weeks away and we can't take any chances," Nutt said. "We certainly regret not being able to interact with our fans at this time."
I gotta tell you, I don't know if I have ever seen anything quite like this. I was TOTALLY taken back by this announcement from the Rebel Athletic Department.
But after thinking about it a while, I finally understood.
You see, H1N1 is also known as……SWINE FLU.
The Reverend Head Coach Houston Nutt has tried very hard at Ole Miss to distance himself from his days at Arkansas as the Head Boar Hog. He won't even use the name "Arkansas" around Oxford...only calling it "that school." And it makes perfect sense that he wouldn’t want anything swine related around his current football program. They are a pre-season top ten pick, are coming off a great year last year, had a very good recruiting year, and some say will contend for the SEC West championship. Why would he want to upset his apple cart over H1N1?
After all, you could say it was “swine flu” that got him run off from Arkansas.
WJLaneSR
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