WTH?! (What the Heck?) moments are attempts to find the memorable and the off-beat perspective on Longhorns sports. Here are some interesting moments from the Texas’ game against the Wildcats. Pre-Game Respect. A great decision by the UT brass to have a moment of silence before the game for the Oklahoma State’s tragedy of losing two of their women’s basketball coaches in a plane crash. Nice touch with the OSU logo on the Godzillatron. 1st Quarter (11:03) WTH Ash?! David Ash needs to realize that you do not need to jump when you throw the football. He has a tremendous upside but the decision making is suspect. Wildcats put the first points of the game after the turnonver. 2nd Quarter (3:02) WTH Blue Chip?! Way to take the momentum right out of the stadium. Coach Brown decides to go for it on fourth down at their own 41 yard line. Tray Allen false starts which kills the drive and ends up leading to a punt and the turning point of the game. 2nd Quarter (2:51) WTH Refs?! I am getting sick of these judgment calls! The KSU punt returner, Tramaine Thompson, fumbles the ball and the Horns recover in great field position. The ref felt that the returner was scared of the oncoming pressure and decided to throw the flag. Best Mack Brown meltdown ever. 2nd Quarter (:57) WTH Mack?! KSU was trying to get into position for a score before the half. Wildcat Sheldon Smith did his best tight rope act along the sidelines with a 24 yard catch which the refs really enjoyed by deciding to make the judgment call that it was a catch. Mack you have got to challenge that call. You do not need the timeouts so why not get the booth to review it. 3rd Quarter (3:43) WTH McCoy?! I guess the golden horseshoe is back in place. Case McCoy steps in an orchestrated a 6 play – 79 yard touchdown drive. Great designed play by Coach Harsin for McCoy to hit senior Blaine Irby for his first touchdown of the year. End of Game (:00) WTH UT Defense?! What an incredible display of domination by this unit. It was sad to see the effort was wasted with a loss. The Horns held the Wildcats to 121 yards of total offense. Collin Klein, aka Honey Badger (please), had 4 net yards of rushing on 26 carries. The other telling stat is that the Wildcats had 9 series which they had 3 plays and punt. Next up for the Longhorns are the Aggies for the final time? at 7PM on Turkey Day. Thanks for following my WTH articles throughout the season. I appreciate the opportunity to rant about the greatest University sports program in the country. You can continue to follow comments on all of UT sports on twitter at 40AcresSports or follow me at Horns1991 . HOOK EM!!
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WTH Moments – Texas vs. Kansas State
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ESPNDallas.com’s Jeff Kaplan writes about the Battle for the Iron Skillet, which resumes as other rivalry matchups fade amid conference realignment. UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas — Wailing is reverberating across this great nation as the rude awakening of conference realignment threatens to rip the heart out of the very fiber of college football tradition — the rivalry game. Nebraska-Oklahoma is history. Texas-Texas A&M, a rivalry born in 1894, is headed the way of the turkey on Thanksgiving Day. The backyard brawl pitting bitter neighbors Pittsburgh and West Virginia is headed for the hills. BYU and Utah played this season as non-conference rivals for the first time in 113 years and in September as opposed to ski season for the first time in 53 years. After 2012, the game goes dark until 2016. Ah, but find solace and reason to rejoice college football fans. All is not lost. The great rivalry is not dead. The near-century-old Battle of the Skillet, TCU vs. SMU, is on and is as heated as ever, which many know hasn’t always been all that heated. Although the schools went their separate ways — not by choice — when the grand old Southwest Conference dissolved, the two religious-based private schools 40 miles apart keep making the cross-town trek to knock heads. The rivalry resumes at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Fort Worth between two 3-1 teams prior to crucial conference games for each. It is the 92nd meeting of a once moribund series that is growing in stature and local interest on both ends of the Metroplex thanks to TCU’s national emergence and next season’s membership into a BCS conference, and SMU’s deep-seeded desire to do the same. Read the rest of the story here .
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TCU-SMU rivalry alive and well
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Aldemir, a 2.07m center who shone for Pinar Karsiyaka in the 2010-11 EuroChallenge, will be with Turkey at the U20 European… Source: FIBA Europe
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Turkey Aim To Strike A Balance
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It’s alright, Thad. No one saw. 10) Dogus Balbay — If you are a fan of defense, you need to watch Texas ’ senior guard. The Turkey native is relentless on that end of the court. 11) John Calipari — Either you love him or hate him, there’s just no middle… Source: FOX Sports
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68 things to know as NCAA tournament heats up
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Here’s what we know for sure as December nears: absolutely nothing. At least nothing we can write in ink or even really solid pencil. But with our basketball appetite whetted by a week’s worth of feasting, we have learned a thing or two — such as Lorenzo Romar has more sartorial nerve than any other basketball coach in Maui and Herb Magee needs to offer a nationwide tutorial on free throw shooting. A few other salient points we’ve gleaned from our turkey week gobbledygook: 1. So Duke is good … ESPN.com has learned: OK, this doesn’t exactly qualify as stop-the-presses news, but for the handful of detractors who thought the Blue Devils were merely overblown hyperbole we offer you this: 28.1. That’s the margin of victory for Duke through six games. Granted, the Devils aren’t biting off the best of the best, but they did dismantle Kansas State with surgical precision and are doing what good teams are supposed to do: smoking the competition. 2. Too much tryptophan is not good for basketball: More than a few teams looked like they either ingested too much turkey or at the very least, opted to play like one. The day after Thanksgiving — and fresh off beating No. 20 Temple — Cal put up five points in the first half against Notre Dame. Meanwhile, Temple followed its loss to the Bears with a loss to Texas A&M. And then there is the Pac-10, which heads into the holiday season as the land of misfit toys. We’ll give Washington a pass. Losing to Kentucky and Michigan State isn’t criminal. And Arizona played well before succumbing to Kansas. After that? Let’s see, USC has lost to Rider, Bradley and Nebraska this season. UCLA crossed the country and lost twice in New York. Oregon State has dropped games to Texas Southern and Seattle and Stanford needed overtime to oust DePaul. 3. The Big East was undervalued: The general consensus held that this was a rebuilding year for the Big East. Instead the league has won six of the early-season tournaments (Maui/Connecticut, Coaches vs. Cancer/Pittsburgh, Charleston/Georgetown, Legends/Syracuse, Great Alaska Shootout/St. John’s and Old Spice/Notre Dame) and finished as runner-up in two others (Puerto Rico/West Virginia and NIT/Villanova). Mix in Louisville’s beatdown of Butler, Cincinnati’s stomping of Dayton and Marquette’s respectable performances in losses to Duke and Gonzaga and rebuilding has quickly turned into reloading in the BEast. 4. NCAA investigations aren’t a distraction: Connecticut is waiting for the final word from the Committee on Infractions and Tennessee is awaiting a letter of allegations. And while pundits and talking heads were convinced the Huskies and Vols would be bothered by the pending bad news (this pundit/talking head included), the Huskies and Vols insisted they’d be OK. Yeah, they were right. Connecticut stomped its way through Maui and Tennessee plowed over Villanova to win the NIT Season Tip-Off. Connecticut, in fact, reminds me of Syracuse from a year ago. When I watch the Huskies I have that same sort of “where did this come from” feeling I had while watching the Orange last season. With the way Kemba Walker has broken out (think: Wes Johnson), the Huskies strike me as an equally legit team as Syracuse of a year ago, not a fluke team that caught early lightning in a bottle. 5. If you’re panicking over Michigan State, don’t: By Dec. 1 of last year, the Spartans already had lost to Florida and North Carolina. By Dec.
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O’Neil’s Feast Week observations
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Thanksgiving is all about the turkey and football. If you don’t have that then you really don’t have the great American holiday that it is. Everything culminates tonight with the Texas A&M/Texas game but until then we’ll need to get by on some NFL action. Source: Crimson and Cream Machine
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Turkey Day Football Thread
Filed under Football, News by on Nov 25th, 2010. Comment.
Australia vs. Slovenia; Turkey vs. France; Russia vs. New Zealand; Greece vs. Spain and Lithuania vs. China . The second-ranked women’s volleyball team broke a school record for blocks in a three-set match with 20 as the Longhorns easily handled Florida … Source: Austin American-Statesman
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U.S. finishes 5-0 in basketball pool play
Filed under Basketball, News by on Sep 3rd, 2010. Comment.
Here are 10 “fearless” predictions in advance of the 2010 season. 1. No team will go undefeated in conference play : You may have heard this: The Pac-10 is deep with good teams but appears to lack a dominant team. It would be a fairly substantial surprise if the Pac-10 champion goes 9-0 in conference play. It’s more likely the champ will win a tiebreaker with a couple of other two-loss teams. 2. A Pac-10 player will go to New York for the Heisman Trophy ceremony : No conference boast as many obvious Heisman Trophy candidates: Oregon State RB Jacquizz Rodgers , Washington QB Jake Locker , Stanford QB Andrew Luck , Oregon RB LaMichael James , etc. One of them will emerge from the “pac” and get invited to New York for the ceremony. Who? What are we: Nostradamus? 3. The Pac-10 will go 23-8 in nonconference games : UCLA is not going to beat Texas. Arizona State’s chances at Wisconsin aren’t good. Arizona and Washington will be underdogs at home vs. Iowa and Nebraska, respectively. Oregon should handle Tennessee. Oregon State is going to beat either TCU or Boise State. I feel pretty good about California’s chances against UC Davis. USC won’t lose a nonconference game because no team outside of the Pac-10 can beat USC (it hasn’t happened in the regular season since 2002). I’m not going to write a phrase about 31 games, but you can feel free to do so below. 4. Chip Kelly will provide a brief answer to many, many questions : Chip, are you worried about your QB making his second career start in front of 105,000 at Neyland Stadium? “No.” Coach, tell us about your recruiting philosophy? “Speed.” What are your feelings on LaMichael James’ 229 yards rushing? “Good.” Coach, I bet my sister I could get you to say two words. “Lose.” Coach, you just won Pac-10 coach of the year for the second time in two years as Oregon’s coach? “Thanks.” 5. Arizona DEs Ricky Elmore and Brooks Reed will combine for 18 sacks : The qualifier is both staying healthy all season, but this is the best pair of defensive ends in the Pac-10. When you scan the offensive lines in the conference, there aren’t a whole lot of teams that will match them with equally capable tackles. 6. Lane Kiffin will order a turkey sandwich; controversy will ensue : Who does he think he is ordering a turkey sandwich in this economy? Turkey? He’s not qualified to eat turkey! The Pilgrims ate turkey for golly-gosh sakes, and Kiffin is no Pilgrim. Isn’t ordering a turkey sandwich a secondary NCAA rules violation? He hasn’t earned that turkey sandwich! He didn’t order a turkey sandwich: He called the counter guy a turkey and starting ordering him around. What actually happened: He got a recruiting hostess to order the turkey sandwich for him, which sounds corrupt even if it isn’t. Oh, sure, Lane: That’s your dream turkey sandwich, right! We have just as good turkey back here in Knoxville, I’ll have you know. Did you hear: He falsely accused the turkey of being ham! 7. Arizona State’s offense will be better — and its defense worse — than most folks think : The Sun Devils have better talent at the skill positions than many think and the offensive line — if it can stay healthy and jell — will be at least adequate, as will QB Steven Threet . This unit could average 25-26 or so points a game. Meanwhile, the defensive line depth has taken a couple of hits of late and, despite talent at all three levels, the fact remains that seven starters from last year’s strong crew are gone. 8. Five teams will end up ranked in the final AP poll : Or at least they will deserve to be. The question will be will a 9-4 team in the Pac-10 get the respect it will deserve? As for who those teams will be, here’s one: Oregon. Got to move on to No
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Pac-10 fearless predictions
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Good morning. YESTERDAY: we sat back and digested National Signing Day, and felt stuffed like we do on Thanksgiving afternoon, after the turkey and during the Cowboys game. TODAY: the sun will make a reappearance just as we put
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