Tag Archives: College

Do us all a favor, baseball, and go back on strike [MLB]

By Matt Mitchell | Published: November 5, 2009
Congrats Yankees fans! I’m really happy you won your 27th championship. You’ve got a great franchise there that has dominated like no other franchise in the world of sport. But then if you hadn’t, you could be called the greatest bust in the history of sport. Because nobody else can field the players you can, right? So [...]
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SEC Championship

By Matt Mitchell | Published: December 5, 2008
A very, very good friend of mine has scored 4 tix for the SEC Championship game in Atlanta tomorrow and has graciously offered one of them to me (FACE VALUE!!!). So I’m off, once again, to Atlanta, for fanfare and hopefully to see the Crimson Tide kick hell out of them damn Gators. If you liked [...]
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College Age Dropping?

By Matt Mitchell | Published: November 7, 2008
Our education system is, well, I won’t say it’s in a shambles, but it’s pretty darn rueful. America, once the proud home of the world’s brightest and most innovative people, is failing to match a large portion of the rest of the world in aptitude. Sure, we still have our share of brilliant people, and [...]
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MITOpenCourseWare

By Matt Mitchell | Published: June 9, 2008
Did you know MIT posts all their course material online? And that it’s freely available to anyone on the internet (they call it MITOpenCourseWare)? If you want a little light summer reading, give it a try. This guy is, and he’s going to blog about the experience. It won’t count towards a degree, but if [...]
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College Football Playoff: To Be or Not To Be?

By Matt Mitchell | Published: January 17, 2008
This was originally published on my sports blog, Real Men Wear Houndstooth, but its a topic that’s getting a lot of press these days, and, since my opinion differs from the majority of fans, I thought I’d cross post this here as well. Please to enjoy. “Chris” has left a particularly inflammatory comment on my post [...]
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The 2-Loss National Champion [LSU]

By Matt Mitchell | Published: January 8, 2008
LSU won the college football national championship, which comes as no surprise to me. I predicted a 2-loss national champion way back on October 7th, which might make me a better college football analyst than Lee Corso. For more sports commentary from me, refer to my sports blog: Real Men Wear Houndstooth.
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