"This certainly doesn't look like the worst defense in the Big Ten ( Read more... )

What have we learned from the Hoosiers today?

• Tracy Porter is a Very Bad Man™ and should be thrown in the other team's way as often as possible.
• He's no James Hardy, but Marcus Thigpen has his moments and shouldn't be counted out.
• Blake Powers has a pretty good arm, but not much else. He doesn't carry the ball very well (or, more importantly, when ( Read more... )

Yay!1 I got to hear the first down song!1

The bad news is, i had to wait until 7 minutes into the third quarter for it.

The good news is, i got to hear it four times in the next couple of minutes.

The worse news is, we followed up that drive with an interception by UConn. *sigh*

Here at the Squatter's Inn, we'd like to take a moment here in the second quarter of the UConn-IU game to say that we are now officially fans of Tracy Porter. In the last 30 seconds, he's knocked away a would've-been-a-touchdown pass and blocked a field goal attempt, which was then returned for something like 25 yards. He's also had two ( Read more... )

Surly and i are hanging out and watching the Iowa-Illinois football game today. My prediction is that Juice Williams will be a really fantastic quarterback by the time he's a senior, provided he gets some good coaching. He's got a hell of an arm--we've seen two passes from one end of the field to the other--and he's got a better running game than ( Read more... )

(Or a shameless attempt to get more of my family members to read my LJ. Yes, ZZ, i'm lookin' at you.)The Colts finally had a nice preseason game tonight, with Peyton and Shawn King each playing half of the game (my boy Sorgi's still out with a shoulder injury, sadly). I'm a pretty big fan of King--he did good tonight, and he's definitely showing ( Read more... )

hung out with Joel and Surly yesterday, and then just as we were breaking up and heading our separate ways and i was getting set to go to Musical Night, we found out Bro Surly was on his way into town for the evening and would we like to get dinner with the Surly clan? so off we went to Momma Surly's, for some good home cookin', and then it turned ( Read more... )