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The NFL Lockout Has Ended

July 25, 2011

Players vote unanimously to approve deal with owners to end NFL lockout. Let the unrestricted free agency rodeo begin! Tweet

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Green Bay Packers, Superbowl Champions

February 7, 2011

February 6, 2011, 22:10 EST – @maitri: “We won the Superbowl, Packer nation! The Lombardi trophy goes home! Titletown! Aaaaahhhhahahahaha! LOVE LOVE LOVE!” That is all. I am going to be in bed for the rest of the week watching the highlights reel over and over again. Tweet

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GO PACK GO

February 4, 2011

Light posting ahead. A small battalion of the Packer Nation is upon us tomorrow for this weekend’s great, green and gold cheesapalooza ahead of the Superbowl. For the record, my house is going to sound like this for the next few days, ya hey dere. I love my people! Except that no self-respecting cheesehead drinks [...]

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Of Interest On January 31st, 2011

January 31, 2011

GeoTripper | The Yellowstone Media Storm: We’re All Gonna Die! Oh, Well Sure, But … … worrying about whether I’m gonna die from an eruption at Yellowstone is so far down my list of concerns that I am more worried about being gnawed to death by a pack of angry prairie dogs. It could happen, [...]

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Someone Pinch Me

January 24, 2011

Rodgers, Shields, Matthews, Kuhn! Superstars! The defense rocked (Dom Capers, I am still naming our hypothetical son after you), but last night’s MVP was #90, The Fat Man, The Freezer: Busari Raji, Jr. To quote fellow Packer fan, Athenae, “If you like it, then you shoulda put a belt on it!” Tweet

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How ‘Bout Dem Packers?

January 19, 2011

The oldest American football rivalry is set to meet again this Sunday for the NFC championship. This is only the second time these two teams have met in the playoffs since seven days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. D is excited. He wanted us to play the Bears and he got his wish. I [...]

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College Football, Academic Integrity, Football, Integrity

January 4, 2011

Back in the year 2000, in that Paleozoic miasma when the internet first went mainstream, a new menace arose to occupy us overworked and underpaid graduate teaching assistants: easy, cut-and paste plagiarism. If memory serves, we caught a few stars of the university’s football team in the act and waited for a) the department and [...]

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A Very Lombardi Christmas To You!

December 25, 2010

Packers vs. Giants on The Frozen Tundra tomorrow. Look for D and me in the stands! Tweet

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The New Big Ten Logo (or Of Ligers And LolCats)

December 14, 2010

Sainted Mother Of JoePa. This is all some overpaid graphic design group can come up with as the Big Ten’s much-awaited new logo? You have got to be kidding me. SBNation Cleveland’s Martin Rickman: “It’s good to see that they went out and grabbed a branding firm worse than the one that did that atrocity [...]

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The Science Of Football

November 8, 2010

Tomorrow is the final day of the Science Bloggers for Students fundraising challenge at Donors Choose. Thank you, guys, for helping me raise $461 which will hopefully be doubled by HP some time this week! One of the projects, Rockin Earth, has only $176 left to go! Please, VatulBlog readers, let’s be responsible for the [...]

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