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False Start!
I came across an unlikely statistic on a site called cfbstats.com, which sounds like a place Huckleberry goes when he wants to get away from it all. Over the past five seasons Texas has led the nation by a good margin in forcing visiting teams into the collective missteps that fall under the guise...
Penalty Parade: How The Stars Have Slowed Their March To The Box
For about the first quarter of the season, Dallas Stars fans, and probably the team's coaches and players, were driven more than slightly crazy by the team's habit of taking silly penalties at critical moments. And as the season has worn on, though, things seem to have gotten better. Although...
Penalties, Turnovers, and Mistakes, Oh My! Gamecocks Defeat Huskers 30-13
You had to have a sneaking suspicion that this was not going to be Nebraska's day when South Carolina blocked the extra point after Nebraska's first touchdown and returned it for a two-point conversion. But even with that miscue, the Huskers seemed to controlling much of the game the rest of the...
Dallas Stars Daily Links: Team Believes Flyers Game Not A Setback In Discipline
Glen Gulutzan isn't really on the same page with the media who cover the Dallas Stars. Most of those outlets wrote something to the effect of "The Dallas Stars slid into their old, penalty-filled ways in Wednesday's 4-1 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers. Gulutzan, however, isn't sure how that became...
NCAA: Justice is a Dish Best Served Cold
One year ago tomorrow, Ohio State announced that five players would serve five-game suspensions apiece for their involvement in a tit-for-tattoos scandal. Today, after a tumultuous year of media brutality, suspensions and the loss of its head coach, the NCAA said to Ohio State: 'no soup for...
Can Nebraska Fans "Hate" Iowa Yet?
"Who hates Iowa?" If you go to a Minnesota game, you're bound to hear that at some point. Yes, that even includes basketball and other sporting events. You can even hear it when Minnesota isn't playing Iowa. And here we are. It's time for the last game of the season. Iowa was set up as our season...
What's wrong with Utah and how can it be fixed?
We knew heading into this season there was a possibility the Utes could struggle. 2010 was less than spectacular and while they returned more experience at key positions, there were still questions surrounding the ability of Utah to contend right out of the gate with the second-tier Pac-12...
Bits: The Conference Finals Begin (And Links)
The Eastern Conference finals began last night with the Bruins being drubbed by the Lightning who came out of the gate with furious anger. The game was essentially over mid-way through the first period as Sean Bergenheim kicked off a 3 goal in 85 second barrage that dug the Bruins a significant...
Boucher is not worried about being outshot, just focusing on the task at hand
Although the Lightning have come out with both wins while in Washington, no one is counting out the Capitals just yet. The Lightning were outshot by the Capitals 37 to 23 in Game 2 and have been outshot by the opposition 322 to 227 through 9 playoffs. With a day off before the back-to-back set of...
The League of Extraordinary Statisticians: "Good" Penalties
The League of Extraordinary Statisticians (LOES) is a weekly forum bringing together top analytical minds in the hockey world to answer a variety of questions that straddle the line between stats analysis and something you might hear floating around section 304. They have agreed to answer these...
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