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Sports in general. I’m a fan of the Kansas State Wildcats, San Antonio Spurs, and Texas Rangers. I follow the Cowboys since I live here, but mostly only for a couple players.

Aug 14 2007

Football season is almost here!

Posted by clay in Kansas State, Sports

And here is a little something to get the Wildcat fans fired up.

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Jun 18 2007

And the lesson as always is…

Posted by clay in Sports, claywginn.com

…I’m an idiot.

I had the pieces queued up for Friday and Monday. My only problem was I scheduled them for JULY 15 and 18 instead of JUNE. Minor issue. So, I changed the dates on them. Take a Stand – Emotion or Logic will post tonight, and Christ and Culture – Politics of the Day will post tomorrow morning.

(I borrowed (ok, plagiarized) the opening phrase from The Sports Guy. He can be a bit crude at times and references a lot of things that I wouldn’t touch, but he’s really a great writer. Some funny stuff in there if you want sports commentary.)

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Feb 05 2007

Quick Thoughts

Posted by clay in Current Events, Faith, Sports, US Government

Super Bowl - Congratulations to Peyton Manning, Tony Dungy and the Colts on last night's Super Bowl victory. I've been a fan of Tony Dungy's since he was the head coach in Tampa Bay, mainly because of his faith and his understated way of displaying it. Manning and Dungy both seem to be great guys and it's good to see them pull out the victory in the rain.

Important Shaving News – I received a new Gillette Fusion razor in the mail this week. It was unsolicited and completely free. I was skeptical about it thinking that my current one works just fine. However, I am now a convert. What I'm not crazy about is that the blades cost approximately $72.50 each. (I'm kidding, but they are still expensive)

Our Government Doesn't Work – This should probably be part of a larger post, but it's something I've been thinking about for quite some time. The system in place currently is broken. It's not beyond repair, but fixing it would be painful. I've seen to much idiocy in federal, state, and local governments to think that it would be easy though. People are too hung up on power and money and material things. Just my $0.02.

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Dec 07 2006

It’s bowl season again!

Posted by clay in Sports

And once again, the debates have begun over who deserves to play for the title, and who doesn't. I'm going to present a (hopefully) well thought out idea for why college football should move to a playoff format over the current BS…er, BCS format. It's going to be long. It involves history. It's also fun.

Let's have a playoff. Each year, use the current BCS ranking system as the seeding for the playoff. Teams which place 1 through 8 in the BCS are in. This is regardless of conference, as some years a conference may place two or even three teams in the playoff. It would be possible to prevent this and only two teams from each conference, but for simplicity's sake I'll ignore that for now. Based on this, I have seeded the playoff for each of the nine years of BCS existence.

2006
1 Ohio State vs 8 Boise State
2 Florida vs 7 Wisconsin
3 Michigan vs 6 Louisville
4 LSU vs 5 USC

2005
1 USC vs 8 Miami (FL)
2 Texas vs 7 Georgia
3 Penn State vs 6 Notre Dame
4 Ohio State vs 5 Oregon

 2004
1 USC vs 8 Virginia Tech
2 Oklahoma vs 7 Georgia
3 Auburn vs 6 Utah
4 Texas vs 5 California
2003
1 Oklahoma vs 8 Tennessee
2 LSU vs 7 Florida State
3 USC vs 6 Texas
4 Michigan vs 5 Ohio State

 2002
1 Miami (FL) vs 8 Kansas State
2 Ohio State vs 7 Oklahoma
3 Georgia vs 6 Washington State
4 USC vs 5 Iowa

 2001
1 Miami (FL) vs 8 Illinois
2 Nebraska vs 7 Texas
3 Colorado vs 6 Tennessee
4 Oregon vs 5 Florida
2000
1 Oklahoma vs 8 Nebraska
2 Florida State vs 7 Florida
3 Miami (FL) vs 6 Oregon State
4 Washington vs 5 Virginia Tech

 1999
1 Florida State vs 8 Michigan
2 Virginia Tech vs 7 Wisconsin
3 Nebraska vs 6 Kansas State
4 Alabama vs 5 Tennessee

1998
1 Tennessee vs 8 Florida
2 Florida State vs 7 Arizona
3 Kansas State vs 6 Texas A&M
4 Ohio State vs 5 UCLA

From that, we get these two sets of data. One is the number of appearances, followed by the number of conference appearances.

Appearances Conferences

5 times
Ohio State (1998, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006)
USC (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)

4 times
Florida (1998, 2000, 2001, 2006)
Florida State (1998, 1999, 2000, 2003)
Miami (FL) (2000, 2001, 2002, 2005)
Oklahoma (2000, 2002, 2003, 2004)
Tennessee (1998, 1999, 2001, 2003)
Texas (2001, 2003, 2004, 2005)

3 times
Georgia (2002, 2004, 2005)
Kansas State (1998, 1999, 2002)
Michigan (1999, 2003, 2006)
Nebraska (1999, 2000, 2001)
Virginia Tech (1999, 2000, 2004)

2 times
LSU (2003, 2006)
Oregon (2001, 2005)
Wisconsin (1999, 2006)

1 time
Alabama (1999)
Arizona (1998)
Auburn (2004)
Boise State (2006)
California (2004)
Colorado (2001)
Illinois (2001)
Iowa (2002)
Louisville (2006)
Notre Dame (2005)
Oregon State (2000)
Penn State (2005)
Texas A&M (1998)
UCLA (1998)
Utah (2004)
Washington (2000)
Washington State (2002)

1998 – Big 12 (2), Pac 10 (2), SEC (2), ACC, Big 10

1999 – ACC (2), Big 10 (2), Big 12 (2), SEC (2)

2000 – ACC (3), Big 12 (2), Pac 10 (2), SEC

2001 – Big 12 (3), SEC (2), ACC, Big 10, Pac 10

2002 – Big 10 (2), Big 12 (2), Pac 10 (2), ACC, SEC

2003 – Big 10 (2), Big 12 (2), SEC (2), ACC, Pac 10

2004 – Big 12 (2), Pac 10 (2), SEC (2), ACC, Mountain West

2005 – Big 10 (2), Pac 10 (2), ACC, Big 12, Independent, SEC

2006 – Big 10 (3), SEC (2), Big East, Pac 10, WAC

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Nov 19 2006

And then it came crashing down

Posted by clay in Kansas State, Sports

Well, if last week was the high point of the football season, this week is the low point. My beloved Wildcats lost to the hated Kansas Jayhawks 39-20. (Heh, Firefox 2.0 spell checker told me Jayhawks is misspelled.) One week after looking like a future Heisman candidate in defeating #4 Texas, freshman quarterback Josh Freeman looked like a freshman quarterback. Three fumbles and three interceptions turned into a resounding defeat, proving that this team still has a long way to go.

Bring on the bowl game now!

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Nov 15 2006

ESPN needs to get a grip

Posted by clay in Current Events, Sports

Why is it that ESPN feels the need to pound stories into the ground these days? First, Barry Bonds is hammered over and over for no reason. Nothing new is coming out about the story, yet he gets brought up all summer long. Second, Terrell Owens is on all the time for every little thing. Now, Bobby Knight hits a kid in the chin trying to get him to look at him, and ESPN won't shut up about it.

True, Bobby Knight has a history of idiocy on the court but this isn't one of those situations. The kid, his parents, and the school don't see anything to it, so why does ESPN have to whip out it's microscope and bring up everything that Knight has ever done? Stupid.

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Nov 12 2006

EMAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by clay in Kansas State, Sports

My beloved Kansas State Wildcats just beat the #4 team in the nation, the ugly burnt orange Texas Longhorns. Jimmy, Alex, sorry about dashing your hopes to get back to the national title game, but they couldn't hang with the Cats. Good stuff out of Manhattan tonight. Can't imagine that KU is looking forward to next week. I just hope K-State doesn't have too much hangover from this game.

GO CATS

(EMAW – Every Man A Wildcat)

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Oct 19 2006

Something to think about

Posted by clay in Current Events, Sports

Scroll down for updates – MOST LIKELY A HOAX

Just over one month ago, I had a post which referred to what people were calling an “American Hiroshima.” The links in the post talked about how there were rumors that terrorists were planning a dirty bomb attack during Ramadan. Well, Ramadon started 22 September and will end 23 October. Now, I read this.

A Web site is
claiming that seven NFL football stadiums will be hit with radiological
dirty bombs this weekend, but the government on Wednesday expressed
doubts about the threat.

The warning, posted Oct. 12, was
part of an ongoing Internet conversation titled “New Attack on America
Be Afraid.” It mentioned NFL stadiums in New York, Miami, Atlanta,
Seattle, Houston, Oakland and Cleveland, where games are scheduled for
this weekend.

More alarmism? Maybe. But this was in the Dallas Morning News, not just a random link on a blog. I'm trying to find the site they are talking about, but haven't got it yet. I'll update if I find it.

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Oct 17 2006

Kansas basketball

Posted by clay in Sports, claywginn.com

No, not just the University of Kansas. In fact, there have been more stories this last week about the start of basketball practices at other schools in Kansas than about KU. That's saying something.

Today, ESPN's Andy Katz wrote about Mark Turgeon and the Wichita State basketball team. Read the article here. Last Friday, he wrote about Midnight Madness at Kansas State. Read that one here.

I think it would be pretty cool if somehow Kansas, Kansas State, and Wichita State were all to be ranked at the same time. Doing that takes us back to the 80s, to the days of Danny Manning, Rolando Blackman and Mitch Richmond, and Xavier McDaniel, Cliff Levingston, and Antoine Carr.

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Oct 16 2006

Two sport schools

Posted by clay in Sports

I'm trying to think of any colleges who are good in both football and men's basketball, but I really can't think of many. Here's my rundown

Basketball schools

  • Duke
  • Kansas
  • North Carolina
  • Kentucky
  • Cincinnati
  • UMass
  • UConn
  • Gonzaga
  • UCLA

Football schools

  • USC
  • Florida State
  • Miami FL (which is actually more of a thug school, as evidenced this last weekend)
  • Texas A&M
  • Nebraska
  • Notre Dame
  • Michigan (wouldn't say this 10 years ago, but they've been pretty terrible for a while in basketball)
  • Ohio State

Both

  • Texas
  • Oklahoma
  • Louisville

Of course this is all based in the here and now. Kansas State used to be good in basketball until about 1994, which was about the same they started getting good if football. Now their football team is on the way down(or already there) and the basketball is on the way up. I wonder if this is true in most schools. Is there only enough support for one sport at many schools?

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