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Category: SPORTS
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The Women of TGS: Part I
When I was a kid, I was absolutely convinced I would grow up to be a football player. I remember reading about Tonya Butler and feeling so inspired by her as the lone woman on her team. I thought, “If she can do it, so can I!” Unfortunately, due to the fact that I never […]
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Lesson Learned: No More Taking Sports for Granted!
After the longest period in many of our lives without access to any live sports whatsoever, plenty of sports fans seem to be having the same revelation — a lot of our identity revolves around sports, our favorite players, and our chosen teams. This may not exactly be news to a lot of us, but […]
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NBA Playoff Predictions: Western Conference
Jarael and Ryan continue their predictions of the NBA Playoffs with the Western Conference. Western Conference Lakers (1) v Blazers (8) Jarael: With the year we have had, I think the storylines in the West are exciting. A year ago, Melo wasn’t playing games in the league; now he is set for a first-round exit […]
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NBA Playoff Predictions: Eastern Conference
We have officially ended the NBA Regular season and have finally got our summer treat of NBA Playoffs. The Tailgate Society contributors Jarael and Ryan give their predictions for the Eastern Conference and Western Conference. They begin with the Eastern Conference. Eastern Conference Bucks (1) v Magic (8) Jarael: As a Bucks fan, this is […]
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TGS Presents: A Very Special College Football Podcast, Episode 3
College football went boom. Travis, Jake, Aaron, and Tami from TGS got together to talk about what happened, and how the future might play out.
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Timing is Everything
Not so long ago in a land not so far away CBS aired a show called “Early Edition.” The premise of the show was quite simple to follow; each morning our protagonist, Gary, would receive a copy of the Sun-Times on his doorstep like so many of us did. Gary’s newspaper was different than ours […]
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The NCAA shouldn’t punt this football season
Editor’s note last week we published this piece by Tami Dooley and it prompted this reply by Levi Denny. The only certainty in life is that nothing is certain. Knowing that gives us two choices as human beings — we can rely on numbers and probabilities and assess our willingness to take part in something, […]
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What “Plus One” College Football Schedules Could Look Like
A report from CBS Sports describes the ACC, Big 12, and SEC are considering a “plus one” approach to 2020 football: each school would be permitted one non-conference game along with their conference schedule. As other conferences cancel non-conference competition entirely, like the Big Ten and Pac-12, and some FCS leagues are even cancelling fall […]
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College Football should take the loss to Covid
There are, best I can tell, around 150-ish people who are regularly around the average college football program, including players, coaches, sports medicine, and the administrative staff. Below is the Georgia Tech Covid-19 Risk Level Map (taken July 22, 2020), set to 100 people, with the D1 CFB program locations (apparently made sometime before Idaho […]
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Returning to Conference Alignment Sanity
Ten years ago, the University of Colorado and the University of Nebraska left the Big 12 Conference, creating a domino effect across the college athletics landscape, before the realignment fervor largely settled in 2014. Since that move, the Big Ten, ACC, and SEC have become 14-member institutions, while the Pac 12 is now at 12 […]
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