One of the best games of this past weekend was the #3 Alabama – #9 LSU game for the SEC West title. Whoever won the game would go onto the SEC title game at the end of the season, so it was a big deal for both teams…and both teams fought hard for the win. In the end, though, Alabama came out on top, propelled to the win through the efforts of Julio Jones.
The question remains, though – does Alabama deserve a rematch with Florida? There’s no question that team deserves the SEC West title. LSU is the only other …read more

It won’t be long before Lane Kiffin will finally get to show us what he can do as the new head coach for the Tennessee Volunteers. Over the past several months, his comments and actions have rubbed some the wrong way, but Kiffin hasn’t apologized, nor does it look like he will anytime soon.
Recently, Kiffin spoke with WGFX in Tennessee about his job, and he attributes his antics to the fact that the SEC is very, very passionate about football. I wouldn’t totally disagree with him.
The best example I can give you is that in our first year at Southern …read more

After major speculation, the latest Tim Tebow Whodunit has been solved. Apparently, one SEC coach didn’t vote for the golden boy for the preseason All-SEC Team. Oh, that doesnt mean he didn’t make the team. It just wasn’t unanimous.
The culprit? Lane Kiffin was suspected, but the real criminal here was South Carolina’s Steve Spurrier. Spurrier has said that the vote for Old Miss’ Jevon Snead was a mistake. Apparently, he wasn’t the one who filled out his ballot – the director of operations did it. Spurrier just ok’ed it, missing the vote for Snead over Tebow.
Honestly…who cares? Tebow wasn’t a …read more

The SEC’s commissioner, Mike Slive, is sick of the in-fighting between conference coaches. On Wednesday, he finally addressed the issue, during a meeting of football coaches and athletic directors at the SEC’s spring business meeting.
Slive didn’t go into the speech with notes, but he says that his whole being was behind every word.
“We’ve made tremendous progress on keeping the news about the players and not about matters that take place off the field. And I reiterated that,” Slive said of the behind-closed-doors talk.
Many of the problems between coaches have been centered on Lane Kiffin, who has sparred with Steve Spurrier, …read more

When Lane Kiffin was brought in to coach the Tennessee Volunteers after the resignation firing of beloved Phillip Fulmer after a dismal 2008 season. While many hope that Kiffin will bring the spark back to the Vols, others aren’t happy with the new coaching choice. To date, 11 players are leaving Tennessee to play at other schools.
That number isn’t HUGE, considering that there’s usually a mass exodus when a school brings in a new coach. What really hurts, though, is that Kiffin is losing some huge assets to the Tennessee team. He’s also gone on record as saying that he …read more

Take-Two Interactive Software [Grand Theft Auto guys] has to pay up and pay up big.

And when I say “big” I mean $3 million dollars big so that they can settle a stock dispute with the Securities and Exchange Commission over some dirty stock dealings.
Christopher Conte, an S.E.C. attorney in Washington overseeing the case said, “Take-Two’s seven-year backdating scheme was egregious and pervasive, and caused the company to materially misrepresent its financial condition to investors.”
This came from Wikipedia [the knower of all knows]:
Options backdating is the practice of granting an employee stock option that is dated prior to the date that …read more