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Manti Te'o on Manti Te'o 4 weeks, 1 day ago | Tipped by Quickish |
#manti teo +6
By the time the N.F.L. Combine ended, Te’o says, “I thought, There, I answered all the questions. It’s over.” He says he started feeling something like normal. “Honestly, I’d say I’m never going to be completely normal,” he says. “Never. It’s still with me now. It’s always going to be something that’s just there all the time, in the back of my head. Every day, in every situation with people—conversations, getting Facebook messages—I’m thinking about all the angles. What does that mean? Wait, stop, who really is this person? What should I be thinking? What should I be doing now?” Ned Zeman(via Vanity Fair)
"College Football Playoff" 1 month ago | Tipped by Quickish |
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College Football Playoff name was smart bc purposely excludes "NCAA", sponsor can be added later, doesn't need to change when field expands Yahoo Sports' Dan Wetzel(via Twitter)

MORE: "College Football Playoff" clocks in at No. 5 on the USA TODAY Sports ranking of "Best Sports Championship Event Names."
Sports x Pop Culture: "Mad Men" Name-Checks Cotton Bowl '68 on 8/4/13 | Tipped by Quickish |
#pop culture +8
In summary: In a single reference, Matt Weiner manages to allude to a possible upset for the reigning champion Draper, add an integration angle, and add historical context by quietly noting the ascent of football to the front of the American viewing palate. If you wonder why people on the internet write so much about Mad Men, this is why: you can unfold one casual reference into a full dinette set with ease, and then have a substantial meal on it. Spencer Hall(via EDSBS.com/SBNation.com)
The Story Behind Ole Miss' Amazing Recruiting Class on 7/2/13 | Tipped by Quickish |
#cfb +7
Freeze flatly denies any NCAA malfeasance. He insists he and his staff had a plan and executed it with the aid of some good fortune. In fact, it wasn't so much of a plan as an all-in recruiting gamble. If it hadn't worked -- if Nkemdiche, Tunsil, Treadwell, cornerback Tony Conner, receiver Quincy Adeboyejo and offensive tackle Austin Golson hadn't signed their names and dialed a 662 fax number on Wednesday -- Freeze and his assistants would have had to scrap everything. They would have wasted a year recruiting, and they would have overhauled their entire player-gathering operation because of it. But they didn't waste that year. The plan worked. Andy Staples(via SI.com)

MORE: SB Nation's great list of the most notable signing-day memes.
National Signing Day's Big Winner: Ole Miss on 6/2/13 | Tipped by Quickish |
#cfb +7
It's nice to see a school like Ole Miss shoulder its way to the top in this bizarre little sport. (Assuming, for now, that the Rebels got there clean.) But the real sport starts in the fall. All those stars next to the names fall away. Ole Miss still has to play Alabama and LSU every year. If Hugh Freeze does his job on the field as well as he's done it in the living room, maybe we'll end up saying that Alabama and LSU have to play Ole Miss. Tommy Tomlinson(via SportsOnEarth.com)
"National Signing Day" Name to Know: Robert Nkemdiche on 5/2/13 | Tipped by Quickish |
#cfb +7
Multiple sources on the Ole Miss side of Robert's recruitment -- including teammates and coaches at Ole Miss -- all point to the period following Rebels' 30-27 loss to Texas A&M on Oct. 6 as the beginning of a "stronger sense of confidence," in a potential commitment. And yes, the culprit was brotherly love. Steven Godfrey(via SBNation.com) , on the winding road of circumstances leading the nation's No. 1 high school football recruit to a presumptive commitment to Ole Miss tomorrow morning on "NSD."
Johnny Manziel's Trick-Shot Video on 24/1/13 | Tipped by Quickish |
#johnny manziel +7
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The Gobsmacking Manti Te'o Story on 16/1/13 | Tipped by Quickish |
#manti teo +6
There was no Lennay Kekua. Lennay Kekua did not meet Manti Te'o after the Stanford game in 2009. Lennay Kekua did not attend Stanford. Lennay Kekua never visited Manti Te'o in Hawaii. Lennay Kekua was not in a car accident. Lennay Kekua did not talk to Manti Te'o every night on the telephone. She was not diagnosed with cancer, did not spend time in the hospital, did not engage in a lengthy battle with leukemia. She never had a bone marrow transplant. She was not released from the hospital on Sept. 10, nor did Brian Te'o congratulate her for this over the telephone. She did not insist that Manti Te'o play in the Michigan State or Michigan games, and did not request he send white flowers to her funeral. Her favorite color was not white. Her brother, Koa, did not inform Manti Te'o that she was dead. Koa did not exist. Her funeral did not take place in Carson, Calif., and her casket was not closed at 9 a.m. exactly. She was not laid to rest. Tim Burke and Jack Dickey(via Deadspin)
Alabama Rolls On: Last Word (For Now) on 8/1/13 | Tipped by Quickish |
#alabama +5
It felt like one team was approaching this with grave seriousness and the other was just playing a silly little game. It's what Saban does so effectively: He can lead you to question your presumptions about yourself, to combat complacency, by forcing you to look inward. I imagine most football coaches would like to think they have the ability to do this — I imagine Brian Kelly thought he'd prepared Notre Dame about as well as he possibly could for this game — but Saban studies it, and hires psychologists and counselors to help him achieve it, and has no real interest in pausing to observe the macroscopic at the expense of all the little things that allow this factory to run. It's a fun thing to joke about, and it's a frightening thing to consider, because it makes you wonder if he's the only one of us who isn't wasting his time away. Michael Weinreb(via Grantland)
Alabama: "Untouchable" on 8/1/13 | Tipped by Quickish |
#cfb +5
Alabama is a modern college football dynasty. I suspect Nick Saban will enjoy that for about a day. And then it will be time to think about next year’s team. Tommy Tomlinson(via SportsOnEarth.com) , adding: "This is why so many people hate Alabama football. They can’t enjoy the moment. They can’t let up. They can’t savor the very thing they worked so hard to get. This is also the reason they get what they work so hard for."

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