Admin | April 25, 2011
The Coventry University Jets returned to action this week after a lengthy Christmas break and tasted defeat for the first time as they fell 32-24 to the Derby Braves in their debut road game. The Jets knew that the 2-1 Braves would pose a sterner test than their two previous contests even though their most [...]
Admin | April 24, 2011
Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune wrote that if Chargers free agent defensive end Jacques Cesaire returns to the team in 2011, it won’t be in a starting role. Cesaire, 30, has been a full time starter the past two seasons after spending the first six years of his career as a top-of-the-rotation backup. [...]
Admin | April 24, 2011
Measuring defensive players is trickier than offensive players for a couple reasons. Most notably, +EPA (Positive Expected Points Added) captures half the story at best. But the idea is that the part of the story we see will correlate well with the part we don’t see. In other words, “playmaking” defenders, in most cases at [...]
Admin | April 23, 2011
So, woke up today with Gretchen Weiners on my mind and she has just birthed a new weekly addition to the ITB schedule, a little “Friday, It’s So Fetch” action where I get to be as fancy as I wanna be. Not as familiar with “fetch”as a couple of ITB’s oh so mature twitter friends [...]
Admin | April 23, 2011
The Coventry University Jets disappointingly lost 13-7 to Varsity rivals Warwick Wolves in a match that the first year team were expected to win. The Wolves hadn’t read the script however and dominated the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. Running Back Tinodiwa Charamba was the star of the show as he [...]
Admin | April 22, 2011
It’s always cool to see which division in the “other” conference your favorite team is playing. Of course, while interconference opponents are pre-determined — like the NFC East playing the AFC East every four years — we learned the wheres and whens on Tuesday, when the league released the new schedule. NFL.com Blogs
Admin | April 22, 2011
There has been a lot of debate surrounding the BCS since its inception in 1998. You have no doubt heard the exhausted rhetoric from both sides by now. College Football Cafeteria is unabashedly against the BCS and in favor of a playoff. I’ve decided to use the most logical argument I can make against the [...]
Admin | April 21, 2011
So, Tuesday, we had a brief twitter discussion where I relayed my current top five coaches to the masses. If you weren’t following along at that time the break down came as Nick Saban, Bob Stoops, Jim Tressel with Mack Brown and Les Miles rounding out the top five. That’s right, those are my top [...]
Admin | April 21, 2011
The East Kilbride Pirates are delighted to reveal their first new sponsorship deal of the year -a cash boost of £500 from their local branch of Frankie & Benny’s. In exchange, Pirates player Neil Baptie will wear the American Italian restaurant’s logo on the sleeve of his game shirt for the duration of the team’s [...]
Admin | April 20, 2011
You may not have seen the memo, but it is indeed mandatory for any draft conversation with members of the media to begin with a question about Cam Newton’s worthiness as the top overall pick in next Thursday’s draft. Such was the case Tuesday afternoon on a conferencd call with NFL analysts Boomer Esiason, Howie [...]