If Kyle Whelliston is right about the “Sports Bubble” — basically, the idea that sports (and “sportz“) are massively overvalued right now, and it’s all gonna break, and soon — I wonder if we’ll look back on yesterday’s events as the crest of the bubble’s rise, to be followed by a gradual, and then accelerating, decline as the bubble bursts…. Read more »
In 2005, basketball writer extraordinare Kyle Whelliston (seen at left with yours truly at the 2007 BracketBusters game at Butler’s Hinkle Fieldhouse) caught ESPN’s eye with his 100 Games Project on his blog, The Mid-Majority. Impressed, the Worldwide Leader hired Kyle to be a freelance mid-major correspondent. Truth be told, it was always an odd pairing: Kyle is both an… Read more »
Twitter: #sportsbubble RT @mmils56: I imagine the slowed economy is a factor in the decisions of the FCS schools not wanting to move up.
I’m hesitant to uncritically read too much into Cal cutting its baseball program — also lacrosse and gymnastics — partly because I haven’t read very much about it, but also because I suspect that it may have less to do with broad #sportsbubble trends than with conditions unique to the Great Recession and the ridiculous, wolf-face crazy budgetary clusterf**k that… Read more »
Twitter: #sportsbubble!!! @whelliston RT @GottliebShow: Cal dropping 5 sports, including baseball. ONLY 14 FBS PROGRAMS ARE IN THE BLACK!
Twitter: #sportsbubble RT @BrianGrummell: Per Andy Katz, group of people including NCAA administrators worked against Pac-10 expansion moves.
Twitter: #sportsbubble RT @ramzyn: ESPN paid a retainer to keep a league that’s 72% unwatchable from getting Fox’d. Then Beebe added some zeroes. Done!
I’ve been doing most of my March Madness talk on Twitter, but with less an a week till Selection Sunday, it’s high time for a bubble overview. Here’s where things stand right now, per a slightly tweaked version of Andy Glockner‘s breakdown: LOCKS: Arizona, BYU, Cincinnati, Duke, Florida, Georgetown, Kansas, Kansas State, Kentucky, Louisville, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Ohio State,… Read more »
If “March Madness” hadn’t officially arrived yet, it definitely made its presence felt yesterday. ‘Twas a crazy day of hoops, capped off by a buzzer-beating bank-shot 3 for West Virginia, beating Cincinnati and ending the Bearcats’ longshot NCAA hopes: The day’s theme was bubble teams doing their damndest to play themselves out of the conversation, as SI’s Andy Glockner explains:… Read more »
FriendFeed: Orangebloods: Arkansas to the Big 12 / Sports Bubble Ten [Eleven?] … and maybe Notre Dame, too?!?