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Category: SPORTS
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TGS 2020 MLB Preview
Better late than never, right? Nearly four months later than expected, the 2020 MLB season is about to begin. The season’s first pitch will take place Thursday, July 23, at Nationals Park, when the New York Yankees visit the defending World Series champions in Washington D.C. Most teams will begin play the next day. A […]
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The COVID-19 case against recent conference realignment
The most recent era of conference realignment in college athletics settled following Big Ten and ACC expansions which moved the leagues to 14-members in 2014. These moves widened the geographic footprint of their leagues for cable subscription purposes, in particular to capture New England cable subscriptions. The move was widely successful financially for the Big […]
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Big Red to the Big 10 (Ten years later)
It has now been ten years since Nebraska left the Big 12 Conference for the Big 10 on June 11, 2010. On that date, the Huskers made the move out of a conference they had been a core member of since 1907, when they were original members of a conference that morphed from the MVIAA […]
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Conference Realignment: Ten Years Later
On June 11th, 2010, the University of Nebraska officially opted to leave the Big 12 conference and join the Big 10 (or B1G) instead, setting off a realignment chain reaction that left fans of schools across the country wondering whether their team would still be playing in the same conference the next season. Now, ten […]
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Sports are coming back, and so is sports betting!
This week will see the return of real, live golf. Not just a group of 4 guys on the course alone, but a whole tournament!
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Ranking Every Iowa State Football Team Since 2000: No. 10 through 1
Before you start reading about the top-10 Iowa State teams from the past two decades, take a minute to read about teams 20 through 11 on this list to help add some context (and I already did the work for you, so it’d be kind of rude not to). Once you’ve finished catching up, continue […]
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Ranking Every Iowa State Football Team Since 2000: No. 20 through 11
I got to talking to some fellow Cyclone fans here at TGS, reliving our favorite and least favorite memories as Cyclone fans in the past couple decades, because what else are we supposed to do without sports? It wasn’t long into the discussion before something hit me: So much of Iowa State’s football history—even recent […]
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College Basketball Thank You Letters, Part 3
Today, I stay out west with a college senior whose team was really robbed.
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College Basketball Thank You Letters, Part 2
This college basketball season was one of the most competitive seasons ever. There were seven different teams that ranked #1 at different times during the season. Yesterday should have been the final two Elite Eight matchups, and we would be buzzing with excitement for the Final Four this weekend. In Part 1, I thanked a […]
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College Basketball Thank You Letters, Part 1
Howdy TGS fans! I have been on a long hiatus from writing on the Internet, but I’m here like John Starks in a do or die game for the Knicks. Over the past year, I’ve been relentless – coming home from my sports radio job to watch college basketball almost every evening and taking tireless […]
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