<![CDATA[Deadspin: Sec]]> http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/deadspin.com.png <![CDATA[Deadspin: Sec]]> http://deadspin.com/tag/sec http://deadspin.com/tag/sec <![CDATA[Where Have You Gone, Pert Coed Rumps Of The Alabama Fax Cam?]]> Last year Bama livened up the roll call that is National Signing Day by pointing a webcam at their fax machine, and sending female staffers to post the latest commitments. But some other SEC school complained, and this year Alabama is back to the boring big board. How do you expect me to read those names without asses? More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5881329&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Just As He Promised, Nick Saban Finds A Way Around The SEC's Oversigning Rules [UPDATE]]]> Remember this? When the SEC reduced the annual signing limit from 28 to 25, in order to curb the growing scourge of schools signing more players than they could offer scholarships? And how SEC coaches voted unanimously against the new rule, because it limited their "flexibility," but the rule passed anyway? No sweat off Nick Saban's back. He's got his own lo-fi signing tricks. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5876535&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Uncivil: How Paul Finebaum Keeps The SEC's Dixie Aroused]]> The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is the brawniest thing in college football right now, and a scrawny man, Paul Finebaum, sits atop it. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5874505&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Honey Badger Returned Another Punt For A Touchdown, This Time In The SEC Championship Game]]> However, minutes later, CBS replays showed Tyrann Mathieu flipping the ball to the referee before breaking the endzone plane. How careless. Nevertheless the play stands and LSU cut the deficit to three going into the half. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5864813&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Soon-To-Be-Fired Newspaper Editor Puts A Big Old "Fuck" On Page 3C]]> You may want to avert your delicate sensibilities from today's Greenville (S.C.) News, because they accidentally printed a naughty not-for-old-people-who-still-subscribe-to-newspapers word in today's story about the SEC Title Game. It's easy to miss, subtly placed in the flow of the text, but look very closely at the third paragraph. "Fuck" is the third graf. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5864157&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Alabama Waited Until Sunday To Give Students SEC Championship Ticket Info]]> There's poor timing, then there's sending out a schoolwide email telling Bama students to get on the waiting list the day after their overtime loss to LSU. This isn't as wrong as it seems, though. Crimson Tide fans have just as much right to purchase tickets to the SEC Title Game as do fans of the schools that will actually be playing. [Twitter] More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5857060&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Mizzou Will Join The SEC On Monday, According To SEC's Premature, Accidental Announcement]]> Missouri became will become the 14th member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), according to an announcement posted from the future on the conference's website last night that was almost immediately removed. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5854247&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Watch Bemused Florida Coach Will Muschamp Ask An Analogically Clumsy Reporter "What's A Padawan?"]]> In journalism school, as far as I know, they don't teach you to begin your SEC press conference questions with "Excuse the Star Wars reference, but..." You're supposed to inquire along the lines of "How do you stop that guy, coach," and "Would you like to score more points in the second half?" Alas, this poor young reporter bucked the trend and baffled Will Muschamp. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5844793&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Texas A&M Fans Provoke Baylor With Waco Billboard: "Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Conference Deal"]]> Just when we think we've gone and boiled Texas football down to its essence, the Texans go and out-Texan themselves. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5842090&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Baylor Is The Big Swinging Bear Dick Of Texas Football]]> Has there been a more triumphant, petty, relevant week for Baylor football? It merely started with their upset of TCU, and has continued with the Bears positioning themselves as a lone bulwark against the partitioning of college football into superconferences. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5837986&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Mentally Disabled Man Beaten Up At Jacksonville Publix For Complimenting UGA Shirt]]> Just nuke the whole region and don't look back. [WOKV] More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5818495&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[UGA Recruits Rob UGA Locker Room On UGA Recruiting Visit]]> We love this story, and you might too depending on your feelings toward SEC football and certain programs. Three people have been arrested in connection with stolen property from the Georgia locker room, and police say the suspects are recruits. That sound you just heard was the exploding heads of the NCAA enforcement staff. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5793042&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Some Chickenshit SEC School Complained About Alabama's Fax-Cam Girls]]> An unnamed SEC school filed a complaint with the conference over the girls Bama was using to retrieve faxes and post names on Signing Day. Mike Slive chided Alabama's AD. Oh, this gets the SEC to act swiftly. [AP] More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5751286&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Rest Of The SEC Needs To Quit Rooting For Auburn]]> There's a nasty characteristic, endemic to but not solely the province of the SEC, in which fans of rival schools put that all aside to pull for their conference in big games. This is unacceptable. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5729665&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Here's A List Of Things That May Or May Not Happen Tomorrow]]> Sources tells us that all of the following things are true, unless they turn out not to be: More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5560648&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[College Baseball's Going To Fool Around With A Shot Clock]]> Today the SEC will begin using a scoreboard-mounted clock in an effort to speed up bases-empty situations during its conference tournament. Oh, please let it go off with a thunderous foghorn. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5548533&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Alabama Fans Hope To Shut Down State For One Week In January]]> You're probably aware that the University of Alabama has canceled any classes that might possibly interfere with students' drinkingenjoyment of the BCS Championship, but now some lawyers have asked a judge to shut down the state's legal system as well. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5427966&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Robert Johnson Called — He Wants His SEC Championship Back]]> Alabama 32, Florida 13. [Pic via Rick Ankiel's Moustache] More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5419837&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[It Would've Been Better If He Said It While Wearing An Elephant Head]]> Nothing better to do this morning, Lane Kiffin? Actually, telling the (already drunk) SEC Gameday crowd that 'Bama would bounce the Gators is pretty cool. And mentioning that Sabes is penalized less than Urbs? Suddenly my Corso's all swollen-and-tingling. [Fanhouse] More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5419698&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[SEC Refs Are Afraid Of Technology. Like, 1990s Technology.]]> Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and the blogosphere to bring you everything you need to know to start your day. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5401866&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Alabama Fan Is Not Pleased About That Last Call]]> Not only did college football return to us last weekend, it brought back a classic genre of the YouTube age—the overstimulated SEC fan boiling over with rage as they watch their team fail on TV. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5356389&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The SEC Would Prefer That You Not Mention SEC Games To Anyone]]> America's fastest conference is developing a new "media policy" that severely restricts how much audio, video and "blogs," reporters can dish out during live games. (Hint: Not much.) Oh, and fans in the seats are subject to the policy too. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5339099&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Steve Spurrier Apologizes For Not Genuflecting To The Tebow]]> SEC coaches and journalists spent maybe six hours of the conference's three-day media tugjob fretting over the vicious bastard who didn't pick Tim Tebow as No. 1 Super QB of the year. All because Steve Spurrier can't read. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5322054&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[TebowGate Is Tearing The SEC Apart]]> Forget LeBron, forget Erin Andrews, the real sports mystery of our time is playing out in the SEC. Someone doesn't think Tim Tebow is the second coming. Don't worry, we'll sniff out the blasphemer. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5320718&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Mark Cuban Trots Away Unscathed]]> "A federal judge has dismissed an civil insider trading lawsuit against Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks..." [DealBook] More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5316999&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[College Baseball Fans Not Used To Being On TV]]> Mike Irwin of KFSM in Fayetteville would just like to talk about Arkansas baseball, but some slack-jawed SEC fans just can't resist a chance to be on the teevee. Get your hands off him, you damn dirty apes! More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5291579&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Mississippi State Just Broke Someone's Heart]]> The 23-12 Bulldogs win the SEC Tournament, likely knocking an at large team out of the tourney. Only one game left and both teams are already in. So now we wait. [Yahoo] More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5170317&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Lane Kiffin: Crazy Genius or Just Crazy?]]> Not to get all SEC on you this early in the year, but it looks like Lane Kiffin—if nothing else—is looking to make things interesting down South next fall. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5149745&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[College Football Preview: The Jort-Out Is Coming]]> In a move reminiscent of the final rap contest between Rabbit and Papa Doc, Florida fans have embraced their greatest flaw: the you wear jorts insult that Georgia fans have been hurling for the better part of a decade. Yep, there's an organized movement afoot for Gator fans to show up in jorts for the Cocktail Party. Already this has provoked the ire of the Georgia student newspaper: More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5072607&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Alabama Fan Waxes Eloquent On Life, Tennessee, and Saban]]> This is what it has come to: an erudite Alabama fan self-nicknamed "Cowboy" is Phil Fulmer's greatest defender. And Cowboy thinks that Nick Saban might be watching his analysis. Which, given that Saban is all-knowing and all-powerful, He probably is. Find a better mustache than this, I dare you. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5070458&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[College Football Roundup: Mommas Don't Bring Your Babies to Neyland]]> Just a tip, don’t ever try and take a baby into Neyland Stadium. No matter how old the kid (ours is less than nine months old and was sleeping in a baby bjorn on his mom’s chest). Babies have to have tickets to Neyland too. I have no idea why the University of Tennessee would have this policy. Especially since two of the most money grubbing entities on earth, the airlines and the NFL allow infants to accompany their parents without tickets. But not the Vols. I understand the need for an age limit, but if a kid can't walk, he's probably not sitting in his own seat. Just so stupid. Anyway like five of the strongest Scotty Hopson shots in succession (a sweet concoction of Kentucky bourbon and orange juice to honor the Vols top basketball recruit from Kentucky),Eric Berry helped to erase the pain of my son's first trip to Neyland. On to 12 observations from Saturday’s games. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5065938&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[College Football Roundup: Chase Daniel and Warren Buffett Are Boyzzz]]> The most shocking image of the college football weekend occurred in the second half of Missouri-Nebraska. And it had nothing to do with the fact that Missouri hung 52 on Nebraska before the third quarter ended. It was finding out that Missouri’s chubby and short quarterback who will win the Heisman Trophy is boyz with Warren Buffett, the sage of Omaha. As if that weren’t enough, they posed for photos with one another. Well, of course they did. And of course the two regularly exchange email messages as well. Does Warren Buffett use emoticons? I swear to god if he does, I’m going to be crushed. You wouldn’t expect anything less though after seeing them pose back-to-back with a smug, “I just bought See’s Candy, bitch,” look on their faces. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5059457&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[LSU Finds Its New (Unlikely) Hero at QB, Downs Auburn]]> The annual Auburn-LSU showdown lived up to the hype last night, as redshirt freshman QB Jarrett Lee found Brandon LaFell with an 18-yard touchdown pass with just over a minute remaining. That strike proved to be the difference, as the sixth ranked Tigers pulled out a tough road win, and now have dreams of a national title dancing inside Les Miles's dome. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5052766&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Auburn Dean Concerned His Students Might Do Something Embarrassing On National Television]]> Here's a letter from Auburn's dean of students Dr. Johnny Green that was sent out to the student population (then to us), prepping them for the big game against LSU this weekend. This seems like it could possibly backfire. No booing! More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5051258&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Florida's Percy Harvin Is Healthy...Hasn't Felt This Good Since 10th Grade]]> I'm ashamed to admit I've been following the tribulations of Percy Harvin and his heel way too closely. Hoping against hope that he'd be too dinged up early in the season to play against my Vols. Up until recently the enigmatic health situation of Harvin seemed promising, maybe he would be slowed after all. Unfortunately those dreams have not come to fruition. In fact, today they dried up like a raisin in the sun: Percy Harvin is ready to go for the game this weekend. Worst of all, he feels "100 times better" than he has at any point in his football career. Harvin told the AP: “Coach just came to me and said he’s ready to cut me loose." (Insert multiple curses here.) More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5050580&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[College Football Roundup: Charlie Weis Is Broken]]> After a week of piddling interest, college football returned with a vengeance. Before I get rolling with 11 observations on the weekend that was, let me take this opportunity to get this before the jump. Our fearless editor is going to have a full-report from OSU-USC, but let's just say it now, can we start an online petition that threatens pollsters with having their houses burned down if Ohio State somehow manages to finish the regular season without losing again and gets into the BCS Title game for a third consecutive year? 9 of the top 11 teams in this week's AP poll are from either the SEC (five) or the Big 12 (four). Each of these conferences also has a championship game. Handshake agreement between SEC and Big 12 fans to loot, pillage, and lay waste to the country if a team from any other conference gets to play USC for the BCS title? Rapprochement, thy name is BCS. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5049935&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Gator Playmate Speaks Candidly: Big Ten Girls Just Ain't That Purty]]> This month's Playboy cover model is a Florida gal who calls herself "Kelly Carrington" (a pseudonym she used for the magazine; her real names is Kelly Hemberger) and she's a proud SEC lassie through and through. From her poofy blond hair, to that dimwitted twinkle, to the gratuitous Big 10 bashing. Carrington's shoot falls on the same month as Playboy's annual "Girls Of The Big Ten" issue, so it did seem a little odd that they went with the U of F public relations major for the cover. "Carrington" told the Gainesville Sun why she thinks that decision was made:
"There weren't any girls from the Big Ten who were hot enough to be on the cover, so they had to pull someone from the SEC."
Carrington/Hemberger is currently lounging in LA, doing the Bunny House-thing, playing with monkeys and posing with other hefty-chested blond floozies in Hef's castle. This is an important time in Carrington's career, and depending on how the tit-showing works out for her, she may have to relocate to the West Coast permanently and transfer to USC. They have a much more challenging public relations program out there. UF Student makes Playboy Cover [Gainesville Sun] More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5047822&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Mark Richt Says ESPN "Didn't Do Their Homework" On Knowshon Moreno Run]]> In case you haven't seen Knowshon Moreno's run against Central Michigan, it's linked after the jump and, despite ESPN's failure, over 100,000 fans have already found their way to the play. Georgia fans (and their coach) are up in arms over ESPN's perceived slight to their Heisman Trophy candidate. Not least because if Tim Tebow had made the same run ESPN would have announced the rebranding of ESPN U as Tim Tebow's Network. Richt said he was looking forward to seeing the play on SportsCenter, and was disappointed when it wasn't featured. Which is interesting because, presumably, Richt has plenty of game film. Anyway, the slight has festered and the Bulldogs are angry. (Insert multiple grown men barking here). And so is their coach. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5047306&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Arian Foster's Philosophy Store Coming to a Strip Mall Near You?]]> I haven't made myself watch the UT-UCLA game yet. It's sitting on my DVR. I put on the pregame last night and heard Rece Davis, Lou Holtz, and Mark May talking about how many times Arian Foster would carry the ball. Holtz and May both predicted he'd get over 150 yards. They were wrong. Arian only got 96 yards. Because he was really ineffective. And by really ineffective I mean averaged 7.4 yards a carry. For some reason he only got 13 carries. But, even still, I've been getting emails asking me about Mike "Britney Spears" Patrick's line that Foster is a philosophy major who planned to open philosophy stores upon his graduation. I didn't believe this happened. Now someone has sent me the link to the youtube clip. It's here after the jump. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5045570&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Vanderbilt Up Against the Grass Ceiling?]]> Which, to be fair, would mean a bunch of their players would excel at Penn State. Tomorrow Vandy hosts South Carolina in the Thursday night ESPN game of the week. Today, you can read about their admissions standards and compare Vandy's players to the rest of the SEC. Hint: No other team's starting safety had a perfect SAT score in the SEC. Why has Vandy been unable to have a winning football season since 1982? Because, unlike at Ole Miss, their players can read. More »
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