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Each Monday until the national championship is played in Indianapolis on April 5, One Great Season will count down the Top 10 National Championship games since 1979, when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson squared off in Salt Lake City.
In observance of President's Day, OGS took last week off, but today's No. 8 is the 1982 title game between upstart Georgetown and a stacked North Carolina team.
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Wednesday Hoops Notebook: DeMarcus Cousins, A Trendsetter?
Posted: 17th February 2010 by John P. Wise in NBA
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If you weren't fortunate enough to be in the fine city of Starkville, Miss., Tuesday night, I hope you were at least able to watch on television the Mississippi State Bulldogs take No. 2 Kentucky to overtime before letting the Wildcats escape with the win.
And as if the pain of losing a nail-biter wasn't difficult enough, MSU suffered some national-television embarrassment after fans, already jacked about having UK ...
The 13 Most Popular Stories of One Great Season
Posted: 5th January 2010 by John P. Wise in NFL, NHL
BROOKLYN—Now that everyone's back to work and already debating quitting on their New Year's resolutions, the year-ending, best-of lists are starting to disappear.
But here's one more for you today: the stories that you made popular during the 2009 One Great Season tour:
+ ANALYSIS: Rose Bowl a No-Win Situation for Ohio State
+ OPINION: Cincinnati Is Going To Hate Brian Kelly
+ ARTICLE: Can Daunte Culpepper Just Get a Steak Up in ...
BROOKLYN -- Everybody gets excited to watch bowl games this time of year, but let's be honest: many of them are pretty weak.
Obviously, the deeper you get into bowl season, the better the matchups. And here are the five best matchups of the 2009-10 bowl season:
The BCS National Championship Game: Texas vs. Alabama
This is a no-brainer because of what's at stake, but the matchups here also will be compelling. I'll ...
By JOHN P. WISE One Great Season
BROOKLYN -- I've touched on this before, and I couldn't help but be inspired to expand on this point after hearing a recent Colin Cowherd rant.
Since I moved to New York in 2006, I haven't really been able to listen to much sports talk radio. But being on the road for the 15-week OGS tour this fall allowed me to pick up some radio ...
Can the Lions’ Daunte Culpepper Just Get a Steak Up in This Piece?
Posted: 10th December 2009 by John P. Wise in NFL
I'm still trying to figure out what to do with this site after the season, but in the meantime, how's this non-college-football story?
Hungry and credit-strapped Detroit Lions quarterback Daunte Culpepper was verbally abusive toward a restaurant server in Cincinnati over the weekend, implying racism and just basically being an asshole, according to two sources.
One couple dining at the upscale Morton's steakhouse in downtown Cincinnati saw the whole uncomfortable incident and ...
By PATRICK KUHL Special To One Great Season
LOUISVILLE, Ky. ù Three friends and I decided a couple years ago to leave our wives at home for one weekend every year and take a trip to see a favorite sporting event or venue. We had gone to old Yankee Stadium last year, and before that to Soldier Field for that frost-bitten game against Green Bay days before Christmas.
Future trips include ...
FORT WORTH, TexasùJerry Hughes is everybody's All-American. The TCU defensive end led the nation in sacks as a junior last year and is again among the leaders this season. He's the best defensive player on one of the best defenses in the country, and is expected to be a first-round pick in next year's NFL draft.
DISCUSSION: What Would Your GameDay Sign Read?
And he might be a little more ...