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Review: Draft Season - Four Months on the Clock (What It's Like Preparing for the NFL Draft)
In the interest of full disclosure, I recently received a copy of Draft Season - Four Months on the Clock from author Bobby Deren who was kind enough to autograph it for me. Deren is a senior writer for Rivals.com. He also makes frequent radio and television appearances, sharing his expertise...
Lane Kiffin getting more mileage out of fewer secondary violations
By far, the most interesting take on the recent story about Lane Kiffin talking with prospects while ESPN cameras were rolling comes from the recruiting guru himself, ESPN's Bruce Feldman. I blame old age, politicians, and trans fats for not thinking of this earlier (despite the fact that we not...
Rocky Top Tennessee: 128 pages of ad-free Tennessee Volunteer football content
Now that everything's been submitted and the pre-order page is (kind of) ready, I can announce what's been causing me to do almost nothing more than Talking Points for RTT for three months: I've been serving as Editor for Rocky Top Tennessee, a publication by Maple Street Press that will be on the...
RTT exclusive interview with Bruce Feldman, author of Meat Market
I am as jacked as Lane Kiffin at a booster function this morning. Somebody stop me before I say something inflammatory. Why the sudden infusion of energy? Because yesterday afternoon Rocky Top Talk completed a ten-question email interview with five-star author Bruce Feldman. For...
Bruce Feldman's Meat Market: the Big Orange perspective
‘Tis National Signing Day Eve, 2009, and fatigued high school football players all over the nation will dream tonight of text messages, fax machines, and NFL draft days. Tomorrow, internet recruiting sites will bow and creak under the weight of 100 million hits from fans...












