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Varez Ward Leaves Texas

By Patrick Bateman on August 22nd, 2010

Smack dab in the middle of our mass salivating for the football season (great coverage by Scip, Nickel, and the crew, BTW), we got

Smack dab in the middle of our mass salivating for the football season (great coverage by Scip, Nickel, and the crew, BTW), we got a little hoop news a day or two ago. Surprisingly, it's not good news. Varez Ward, who missed almost all of last year with a gruesome quad injury, has decided to leave the team. The declared reason is to be closer to home and his mother, who has a

Quick update, Scipio, et al. are beginning their assault on sports and culture NOT solely Longhorn focused. A new article is up and you should check it out. Intelligence - The Ultimate Athletic Handicap It features Lawrence Taylor as Hamlet and Brian Billick. From here on out you should check in there most days to see what's going on there and around the network. Also, on the horizon are another bushel of blogs (Dallas Cowboys, Dallas

The NCAA released a multi-year APR that tracks both institutions and individual coaches and the news for Longhorn athletics, particularly any program lucky enough to have Dr. Randa Ryan in charge of its academic progress, is excellent. Here's how Longhorn football, baseball, men's track, basketball all stacked up.

A couple of interesting milestones on our path to complete dominion over all forms of media. 1) We're properly launching the FanTake home page. If we could just get Ted Knight to smash an unbreakable bottle of Veuve Cliquot against the server room door, we'd be set.

A second former Kansas athletic official has pleaded guilty in a ticket skimming/scalping scandal. Brandon Simmons and Jason Jeffries both worked in the KU athletic department's sales and marketing department, and both have pleaded guilty to being part of a group of KU employees who illegally sold over 19,000 basketball and football tickets costing the school as much as $3 million. When all three of the active District Judges in Topeka recused themselves without explanation,

Or at least these are the questions that loom for me. Feel free to post yours and provide answers. Considering the topic, we'll be grading on a curve.

Ben Koo, who, I can personally attest after lunching with him is the world's greatest Chinese Jew, offers an outstanding preview and analysis of the new 24/7 Sports venture that will set out to compete in the college recruiting space currently occupied by Rivals, ESPN, and Scout.

...read by Gandhi. Yes, it had to happen: a Mel Gibson and Dan Gilbert mash-up.

Lot's of big names have been signing and moving in the NBA offseason. If you were clueless to this and wish to become inform yourself you can read Dick's review of "the decision" by LeBron James. That decision, to join Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh in playing for the club team known as "the Miami Heat" will likely dominate the airwaves until the next season's playoffs have concluded so I apologize in advance for adding

In case you live in a cave isolated from any and all sports talk, LeBron James will let everyone know where he will play basketball at 8pm tonight on a ESPN one hour special that has been officially dubbed "The Decision". This could be interesting as it is supposed to be all live so there could be some wheels off moments but mostly I just expect a ESPN/LeBron knob slobbing of epic proportions and extremely high

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