chris fowler Stories - Black Shoe Diaries
College Gameday will be in Austin this weekend
Third time they've covered the Tech game in five years. They were planning on doing Tennessee-Florida, but Tennessee lost to UCLA. So f 'em. It's great that ESPN is coming, but let's not forget what is most important. Signs. Signs that will appear on tv. Such as and Good stuff. Whomever can get...
The Top Media Personalities in College Football
With the anticipation of college football building, now's the time to revisit a topic we addressed a few years ago: Who are the top college football media personalities? Outside of the players, coaches and pageantry, the on-air personalities shape our Saturday's more than anything else. Who are...
Excerpt from Those Guys Have All the Fun: Chris Fowler on Woodson & Manning
As we've been working through our Greatest Vol Villains bracket and featured Charles Woodson in a quarterfinal matchup today, an oral history of ESPN - Those Guys Have All the Fun - was just released by James Andrew Miller & Tom Shales. This thing is a 745 page beast that I'm very much looking...
Why the Georgia Bulldogs Should Win the SEC East in the 2011 College Football Season
Not content merely to bust my chops, C&F also felt compelled to burst my bubble by demonstrating that Urban Meyer mostly just restored what had become the status quo in the SEC East since the 1992 divisional split. While it was not news that the Gators are good (or that Georgia must resolve its own...
Getting To Know The Nevada Wolf Pack With Pistol Whipping The WAC
Just who are the 12-1 Ne-VA-da Wolf Pack? To familiarize us Superfans with BC's Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl opponent, Andrew from the Nevada blog Pistol Whipping the WAC was kind enough to give us a little more color on the University of Nevada at Reno, the city of Reno and Wolf Pack football. I think...
ESPN College GameDay 2010 Preseason Predictions
Today was ESPN College GameDay's preseason preview show, and here are the predictions that the guys made. Just filing this away in case it's needed later. First Things First Lee Corso looked and sounded a lot better than he did a season ago. He seems completely recovered from his stroke now, and...
ESPN College GameDay Preseason Predictions
The ESPN College GameDay season preview show was this past weekend. If you missed it, here are the experts' picks for archival purposes. Lee Corso was not in studio yet, as he's finishing up his recovery from a stroke, but Chris Fowler did deliver them for your viewing pleasure. ACC Lee Corso: FSU...
ESPN's talking heads find solace in ignorance
Special thanks to reader VAC for sending in this fictional tale of his non-BCS conversation with Chris Fowler, Mark May, and Craig James that quickly devolved into ignorant and prejudiced non-BCS name-calling. At least, we think it's fictional. We can actually picture these guys saying some of...
Ten Television Personalities That Make College Football Great
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]> <object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id=ieooui> </object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]-->...
Nitt Picks Knows You Are Watching
With the Blue-White Game quickly approaching this Saturday, several players have been made available to the media this week. Yesterday Daryll Clark sat down to answer some questions. You can sense he realizes how important he is to Penn State's success this year, and yesterday he explained that...
Showing 1 - 10 of 15 Next
Certain photos copyright © 2012 by Associated Press or Getty Images. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of Associated Press and Getty Images is strictly prohibited.
