Championship Series Q&A With Burnt Orange Nation
andthevalleyshook.com 6/22/2009 — When it was looking like Texas and LSU would meet for the championship, the guys from Burnt Orange Nation contacted me about having some cross-pollination on the blogs. A couple of their guys do most of the baseball coverage over there, and they sent ...

Why Texas Bunts
burntorangenation.com 6/10/2009 — Bunting is like Greg Davis, everybody has a (mostly negative) opinion. With all the hoopla surrounding the bunt the last few weeks, we thought we'd take the opportunity to defend the bunt as an offensive strategy which has helped make Augie Garrido the winningest coach in NCAA history. We ...

Texas Basketball Elite Camp
burntorangenation.com 6/19/2009 — The two football camps aren't the only major events happening at the University of Texas in June. The Texas Elite Camp started on Thursday and will continue on Friday as Rick Barnes and staff host some of the top prospects in the country in the 2010, 2011, and 2012 classes, and possibly even a ...

Stoking the Fire
andthevalleyshook.com 6/23/2009 —   As persona non grata in the Texas blogosphere right now, I should take last night's classic as a chance to backtrack, give Texas credit, and back down from my "LSU is an unstoppable juggernaut" meme.  But I'd rather throw fuel on the ...

Do You Believe In Magic?
burntorangenation.com 6/17/2009 — You can call it magic. The fickle Baseball Gods smiling benevolently down upon the Longhorns. Maybe it's just pure moxie. Perhaps simple, blind luck. Whatever the case, it's becoming increasingly apparent that this Longhorn baseball team has "it." True, there are still games to win before the ...

Ugly Win > Pretty Loss
burntorangenation.com 6/15/2009 — We won't lie: we feel a little bit dirty right now. Having both grown up within two hours of Hattiesburg (one of us in Mississippi and one in Louisiana), it was tough for us to watch the Cinderella Golden Eagles choke away their first CWS game in school history last night. Don't misunderstand ...

Wait 'Til Next Year
burntorangenation.com 6/26/2009 — It's a refrain more worthy of a Chicago Cubs fan than a Longhorn baseball fan. As Augie Garrido says repeatedly, Omaha is the minimum expectation for his baseball team. His statements explain the massive disappointment felt by fans after Wednesday's loss to LSU in the CWS Finals, even though ...

Texas vs. LSU Game One Open Thread
burntorangenation.com 6/22/2009 — via a.espncdn.com If you listen to some LSU fans, it's a matchup of talent versus magic , a matchup usually won by talent. Of course that ignores recent CWS history of 4-seed Fresno State winning last year, unseeded Oregon State beating more talented North Carolina teams in 2006 and ...

Putting 2009 Texas Baseball In Perspective
burntorangenation.com 6/25/2009 — AO is on his honeymoon so to sum up the '09 season I (JA) will be writing in the first person singular. I know, it's revolutionary. We all know how the season ended (6-7, 5-1, 11-4), so I figured I'd go big picture with this one. As a New Orleanian, the fall of 2005 was a tough time for me. ...

LSU 11 - Texas 5: National Champions!
andthevalleyshook.com 6/25/2009 — Anthony Ranaudo certainly didn't get the great outing we hoped for, but he fought through 5 1/3 innings, giving up 8 hits and 5 walks but only 4 runs, and another outstanding bullpen outing shut the Longhorns down from there. Offensively, the ...

Big 12 Preview for 2009 — Bleacher Report - College Football 6/17/2009
Next up on the BCS conferences, the Big 12, or the arial assault conference. Take a look at the progression of the Big 12 in even the past three seasons, everything is a form of the spread offense now. Quarterbacks are posing playstation like numbers. ...

Bradford: Is the Free Ride Over in 2009? — Bleacher Report - College Football 6/17/2009
Sam Bradford has been electric during his first two years. Actually, no freshman or sophomore has ever came within 30 TDs of his totals, or led the Bowl Subdivision in passing rating their first two years. Despite having two full seasons of  ...

My Pre-Season Big 12 Standings — Bleacher Report - College Football 6/20/2009
North: 1) Nebraska: Nebraska returns to the top of the North this year.  2) Colorado: With Nebraska having to come to Boulder this year the Buffs could very well take first in the division however I don't see it.  That being said ...

2009 Preview: Texas Longhorns — Bleacher Report - College Football 6/21/2009
Over the next couple of months, I am going to try and preview roughly 20 teams for the upcoming college football season. Because of time constraints and the fact that there are so many teams in CFB, I simply can’t do them all, so I will pick 20 ...

Colt McCoy Looks to Lead Texas Longhorns to National Title — Bleacher Report - College Football 6/22/2009
Since the end of the 2007 season, many in Longhorn nation said and thought that 2009 would be the year that the Longhorns won the national championship. With a successful 12-1 season in which the Longhorns almost tasted perfection, expectations will ...