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Not so fast: why Corso resonates with CFB fans
Lee Corso has not become synonymous with university football to be the biggest analyst that the game has ever seen. He was not a coach of all time, and he never reached the professional level as a player.
Corso will be forever intertwined with sport because He loved university football as much as fans. You would find it difficult to find a university football fan who did not like Corso right away.
ESPN announced yesterday that Corso will withdraw from “College Gameday” after week 1 of the university football season 2025. His last selection of headgear will take place shortly after his 90th anniversary.
Corso has been with the show since its broadcast in 1987. For almost 30 years, His choice of head covering was a basic food on Saturday – Since the very first time, he put on the chief of the mascot of Brutus Buckeye in 1996.
He wore this head of Brutus 44 times more, most of his choices as a mascot. And if you are curious, Corso was not so inaccurate on his selections, hitting more than 66%. Do not let the gadget deceive you: Corso lived and breathed football.
- Almost four decades in ESPN. Almost three decades leading to football before that. And a player career that has always classified him third on the list of interceptions of all time of Florida State. Corso really did everything.
- It seems somewhat ironic after all that he has accomplished that Corso will remain memories for having simply emulated mascots. But nothing sums up the love of Corso better for the game than these 30 seconds at the end of “College Gameday” every Saturday. His joy for sport was contagiousNot only through the ESPN office, but in millions of households around the world.
Corso has a coil of strong moments full of emblematic moments, perhaps not more memorable than his choice between SMU and Houston in 2011. Known to simulate the “Gameday” crowd, Corso picked up a SMU megaphone before throwing it on the desk with a secure exclamation.
“Ah, f – That!”
Not so fast, my friend. Ahead:
News to know
Rodgers discharges on jets, Glenn
Aaron Rodgers criticized the way the jets managed his release this offseason in an appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” yesterday. Rodgers deplored that he “stolen across the country on (sound) clean” to meet the new coach Aaron Glenn, expecting a conversation on his future, only to be quickly said in New York in another direction in the quarter. “I thought there was no sufficient respect in this meeting,” said Rodgers. The 41 -year -old also said that he was “open to everything and attached to nothing” concerning his future of play, including retirement. Complete comments here.
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- Florida State Home sports events canceled this weekend after at least two people were killed and six injured in a shooting on campus yesterday.
- Form of artemi panarin rangers and Madison Square Garden Sports, the company that owns the team, paid financial regulations To a Rangers employee last year after alleging that Panarin had sexually assaulted him, reports Katie Strang. More details here.
- Angel City hired Bayern Munich Alexander Straus As a new head coach, officially from June 1.
- The Yankees of the second Jazz Chisholm JR Bask player. has torn a referee in a pole deleted since X after being ejected against the shelves, A Violation of MLB rules. The league examines the question.
- Goalkeeper from Bucks Damian Lillard was eliminated from a blood clot in his right calf and returned to practice. Learn more about its quick recovery here.
- THE Pwhl should announce a new franchise inVancouver Next week. The team should play in 2025-2026.
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Chaos, suite: Is this normal for the NBA?
We wrote on Sunday on how this NBA season has completely disappeared from the rails: several coach layoffs by the contenders for the playoffs in the last few weeks, the breathtaking professions and some superteam flops. But it was not the end.
Literally an hour after losing against the Mavericks in the 9-10 game match on Wednesday evening, the Kings – the same people who can be installed a long time ago installed a giant purple light beam Just to broadcast their good vibrations in the ether – separated from the architect from their recent recovery, the managing director Monte McNair.
- Two April two, McNair was appointed director of the year of the NBA after hiring Mike Brown, who became a coach of the year, then was dismissed last December – six months after signing a contract extension.
- Only 12 hours after the defeat against the Mavericks (speaking of chaos …), Sacramento Finalize an agreement To bring back his former vice-president of basketball ops, Scott Perry, as GM. Whiplash, someone?
Oh, and earlier this week, the Pelicans dismissed the executive vice-president David Griffin, quickly replacing him with the renown temple Joe Dumars, and coach Suns dismissed Mike Budenholzer after an “embarrassing” season.
Again: it’s only since Sunday! So we asked our John Hollinger: Is it just a recess bias, or is it an abnormal level of NBA chaos?
💬 It is not chaos as much as the timing of a chaos. Coaching changes are an inevitable part of the company, the expectations of life only making it shorter. But the dismissal of a coach in the last weeks of the season is fundamentally unknown. And for it to happen twice? By two teams that combined to win nearly a hundred games? And for one of them, being a world champion coach? Yes, it was totally crazy.
The rest of this week (like the changes to New Orleans and Sacramento), while chaotic, falls into the most normal parameters of the franchises that launched themselves by throwing spaghetti on the walls at the end of another failed season. It’s just part of the exercise in mid-April at this stage, and on the basis of what I heard, we will probably see a few more movements before things settle.
Check reality with a side of Intel? Delicious. 👀 Also make sure you Consult the preview and forecasts for John’s qualifiers (Free for Pulse readers!), Where he explains why there is more mystery in this area that we have not used.
What to look at
📺 MLB: Dodgers at Rangers | 8:05 p.m. on the MLB network
Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Jacob Degrom will take up the mound to launch a three game set in Arlington. Connect yourself to a potential overview of the World Series while you are waiting for the NBA and NHL qualifiers to start.
📺 NBA: Mavericks at Grizzlies | 9:30 p.m. HE on ESPN
On the one hand, these teams are fighting for a chance to bounce back in the first round by the Thunder. On the other, they are fighting to see who can put a monumental decision of the front office in the rear view mirror more quickly. Intriguing anyway.
Choice of pulses
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Pablo Maurer takes you inside the chaos at Loudoun United – A USL club organized its best season despite the ruined facilities, the creeping uncertainty and the players forced to wash their own kits.
The fate of Thunder The dream season can rest on a pair of shoulders (very high). Anthony Slater explains how Okc Bance on a double -turn approach.
With the advent of torpedo bats, a Building baseball development Finally caught up in the development of pitching? Athletic The MLB staff dived in depth on the latest innovations in the typing landscape.
THE Lakers have triggered NBA title ratings. Here is why Sports manuals will be strongly rooted against Los Angeles in the playoffs.
Snapshot cliché in the bournal yesterday: The ranking of the best MLB offices, such as voted by decision -makers through sport.
Most read on the website yesterday: Katie Strang report on Artemi Panarin.
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