It's Not Plagiarism if You Link to It

by Patrick Vint on Dec 4, 2007 7:03 PM CST in Iowa Hawkeyes News

Ah, the offseason. Time for the triumphant return of the weekly link dump.

Fox Sports resident moron Peter Schrager (who has a giant hardon for SEC speed in general and Tim Tebow in particular) has idiotically named Iowa's loss to WMU as the worst loss of the season. Worse than Stanford/USC. Worse than Michigan/Appalachian State. Worse than Pitt/WVU. He also puts 7-4 Navy's triple overtime win over 3-9 Notre Dame at #9. In other words, he never actually bothered to watch a college football game this season. Iowa/WMU made me question life, faith, the meaning of it all, but losing the chance to get shitkicked by Oklahoma State in an insignificant bowl game is nowhere near losing the chance to play for the National Championship because you can't handle the Wannstache.

Irish Outsider, the brilliant mind behind Fire Mark May, might have finally lost it. That being said, it's a great song on a great album by a great band. And it might be cathartic to you, too, Iowa fan.

An official RIP to Every Day Should be Lemsday, the best damn Ed Orgeron blog on the ebays. They were hilarious, and they updated just as frequently as your typical Illinois blog.

A couple of programming notes: With Orson on vacation, Jebus will be filling in periodically over at EDSBS this week. OPS and I are still waiting for our invitation to the cool kids' table. And Mark Hasty, former author of The Bemusement Park and godfather of Iowa football blogging, is now writing at AOL Fanhouse. He's smarter than me, so read.

The Realests have the definitive Michigan short list.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. We're back to this shit again (HT: Access Hollywood, er, mGoBlog)...

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Let's not sell ourselves short

We lost a chance to get shitkicked in an insignificant bowl by Boston College. Way more important.

Nice call on the Mountain Goats though, I love that album.

by Adam @ Black Heart Gold Pants on Dec 4, 2007 7:31 PM CST reply actions

You know what's sad, PJS?

I seem to recall that old bean asking his readers for a new title for the feature.

Don't you change a thing, Hawkeye State! Don't you change... (sniffle) ...a damned thing.

by Adam Jacobi on Dec 4, 2007 7:46 PM CST reply actions

Time makes the heart grow fonder

By the time I finished putting this together, I was crying like I was watching the end of Driving Miss Daisy...I mean, uh, Rambo. Definitely Rambo.

I welcome back my once-shunned title with open arms.

by Patrick Vint on Dec 4, 2007 10:54 PM CST up reply actions

Don't forget

The glorious MN loss to NDS.
You know it's bad when the D1AA team's kicker guarantees a win in your house and you can't even get it up enough to stop them.

by chitownhawkeye on Dec 4, 2007 10:26 PM CST reply actions

It is on the list though

(ok, so maybe i should follow the link before spouting off.)

by chitownhawkeye on Dec 4, 2007 10:28 PM CST up reply actions

The surest sign I'm a dork

I just edited the title and tags to reflect the accurate spelling of "plagiarism."

Please kill me with a blunt object.

by Adam Jacobi on Dec 5, 2007 1:44 AM CST reply actions

The surest sign I'm a moron

I just wrote a post calling some guy an idiot, then misspelled the title. It's like I've become Stephen A. Smith. Only, you know, without the fascism.

by Patrick Vint on Dec 5, 2007 8:42 AM CST up reply actions

meh

Don't be so hard on yourself, at least you didn't write a post about the Iowa basketball team and forget the only good player on the team.
Now that would be really bad.

by jebushchrist on Dec 5, 2007 9:32 AM CST up reply actions