30 Copyright 2009, CBSSports.com http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/view/5881996 en-us It's a birdd! It's a planee! No. It's a blogg. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:23:35 EST Blogg Doyel : CBSSports.com Blogs http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/18402648?source=rss_blogs_Soccer#comments Soccer http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/18402648?source=rss_blogs_Soccer Soccer is a sport where cheating is commonplace. This is a sport where players walk the ball 10 or 20 yards up the field before throwing it in, just to get an extra advantage. This is a sport where teams set up a human wall 10 yards from the ball, as ... France cheated ... and NOW everyone's outraged? Fri, 20 Nov 2009 9:40:20 EST http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/18402648?source=rss_blogs_Soccer http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/18288002?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF#comments NCAAF http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/18288002?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF Listen to me. I'm not this mean. I don't intend for this to be as petty as it's going to sound. But I have to tell you one, just one, of the differences between a big-time football school like Ohio State ... and a smaller sibling like Cincinnati. ... OSU = football school. Cincinnati? Um ... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:35:30 EST http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/18288002?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/18111152?source=rss_blogs_NCAAB#comments NCAAB http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/18111152?source=rss_blogs_NCAAB Something's not right with those kids, and I'm talking about both of Michael Jordan's basketball-playing kids. ... Those Jordan kids ... wow Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:30:26 EST http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/18111152?source=rss_blogs_NCAAB http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/18004276?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF#comments NCAAF http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/18004276?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF You hear me, Big Ten people? Not a damn word about any SEC conspiracies. ... Not another word about SEC referees Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:10:58 EST http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/18004276?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17538712?source=rss_blogs_NFL#comments NFL http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17538712?source=rss_blogs_NFL Pink shoes, anyway. He's supporting breast cancer awareness. Good for him. ... Favre's in pink Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:04:09 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17538712?source=rss_blogs_NFL http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17538121?source=rss_blogs_NFL#comments NFL http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17538121?source=rss_blogs_NFL Swear to God, this is a true story. I'm here Monday night for the Packers game at Minnesota -- the Brett Favre game -- and the first person I see when the cab drops me off outside the Metrodome is a guy wearing a No. 4 Vikings jersey with Favre's nam ... Favre confliction reaches critical mass Sun, 11 Oct 2009 6:07:35 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17538121?source=rss_blogs_NFL http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17395692?source=rss_blogs_NFL#comments NFL http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17395692?source=rss_blogs_NFL Look, Brett Favre is a charismatic football player and that was a great play in the pocket to elude the pass rush and buy some time and launch a laser of a throw toward the back of the end zone. ... Um ... the catch was the thing Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:43:03 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17395692?source=rss_blogs_NFL http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17298618?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF#comments NCAAF http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17298618?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF Lane Kiffin deserved to be crapped on for his antics this summer, and lots of us crapped on him pretty good. ... Kiffin's right -- Urban was a douche Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:55:20 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17298618?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17217123?source=rss_blogs_NCAAB#comments NCAAB http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17217123?source=rss_blogs_NCAAB That's a joke, right? It has to be a joke, because here's the punch line: ... The UGA president to replace Brand?!?! Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:50:04 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17217123?source=rss_blogs_NCAAB http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17206039?source=rss_blogs_NCAAB#comments NCAAB http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17206039?source=rss_blogs_NCAAB Myles Brand had the strangest ideas. When he was president at Indiana, he had this crazy idea that his men's basketball coach should be a decent human being. When state legend Bob Knight went another route, Brand fired him. Just took the heat and fir ... Myles Brand: Death of an Idealist Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:40:03 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17206039?source=rss_blogs_NCAAB http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17162827?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF#comments NCAAF http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17162827?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF This is what happens when I'm nice to a school. That school lets me down. ... OSU player hurt. Like it matters. Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:56:40 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17162827?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17098857?source=rss_blogs_NFL#comments NFL http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17098857?source=rss_blogs_NFL That's right. They owe you money. ... Forget an apology -- the Jets owe you money Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:47:38 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17098857?source=rss_blogs_NFL http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17081151?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF#comments NCAAF http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17081151?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF So I'm reading the latest story on Florida State vs. the NCAA -- a story that makes someone, and that someone is the president of FSU, look like a liar -- when it finally occurred to me what's wrong with this whole thing: ... FSU athletes are dumb -- THAT'S the story Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:20:36 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17081151?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17071757?source=rss_blogs_NFL Draft#comments NFL Draft http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17071757?source=rss_blogs_NFL Draft I mean, the stress of being smarter than everyone else, and finding new and valid ways to remind everyone else, must be awful. ... How tough it must be, to be Eric Mangini Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:06:54 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17071757?source=rss_blogs_NFL Draft http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17062773?source=rss_blogs_NFL#comments NFL http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17062773?source=rss_blogs_NFL Was the second shooter in the grassy knoll. ... Other things Big Ben should admit doing: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 8:17:27 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17062773?source=rss_blogs_NFL http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17052253?source=rss_blogs_NBA#comments NBA http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17052253?source=rss_blogs_NBA And so did Phil Jackson. ... Dean Smith just got slapped in the face Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:04:59 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17052253?source=rss_blogs_NBA http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17051388?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF#comments NCAAF http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17051388?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF If this week's polls are any indication of the kind of season on tap in college football, the BCS is about to get embarrassed. Badly. ... BCS needs to address its Big East issue Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:53:12 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/17051388?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16998847?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF#comments NCAAF http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16998847?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF STILLWATER, Okla. -- They're serious about football. They're serious about Mike Gundy. And they're serious about T. Boone Pickens. ... Let me tell you something about Oklahoma State Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:52:33 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16998847?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16997655?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF#comments NCAAF http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16997655?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF STILLWATER, Okla. -- And I'm dead serious. ... Georgia at Oklahoma State ... I'm thrilled Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:12:06 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16997655?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16982754?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF#comments NCAAF http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16982754?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF I meant what I said and I said what I meant about LeGarrette Blount: sit him for the year, Oregon. ... To be clear, the Boise player also was a jerk Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:55:25 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16982754?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16980236?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF#comments NCAAF http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16980236?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF LeGarrette Blount of Oregon, I mean. He's a young Pacman Jones. Is that a good thing? ... Awww -- he's like a young Pacman Jones Sat, 05 Sep 2009 2:34:42 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16980236?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16960472?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF#comments NCAAF http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16960472?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF If Boise State beats Oregon State tonight, the Broncos are a safe bet to finish the regular season undefeated, and therefore in position to create another BCS controversy. ... Boise State is unworthy, and this is why Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:45:55 EST http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16960472?source=rss_blogs_NCAAF http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16951906?source=rss_blogs_MLB#comments MLB http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16951906?source=rss_blogs_MLB It's a baseball story. And a superstition story. And just a really neat story, if you want to know how I feel about it. ... Nine men, one stick. No, not that kind of story Thu, 03 Sep 2009 0:21:18 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16951906?source=rss_blogs_MLB http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16930790?source=rss_blogs_NCAAB#comments NCAAB http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16930790?source=rss_blogs_NCAAB After much soul-searching and hand-wringing -- or maybe the people in charge of FIU sports did like they did when debating whether to hire Isiah Thomas, and let heads be "yes" and tails be "no" -- FIU has decided to open the 2009- ... There, Isiah ... was that so hard? Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:32:40 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16930790?source=rss_blogs_NCAAB http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16919207?source=rss_blogs_NFL#comments NFL http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16919207?source=rss_blogs_NFL It has come to this for Brett Favre. It has come to him inventing injuries to muster sympathy. Unbelievable. ... Lord have mercy, he's faking it Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:39:19 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16919207?source=rss_blogs_NFL http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16910777?source=rss_blogs_NFL#comments NFL http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16910777?source=rss_blogs_NFL As if we could have any less respect for his first few months in Denver ... ... Josh McMiniMe wore a hoodie?!! Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:23:29 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16910777?source=rss_blogs_NFL http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16867360?source=rss_blogs_MLB#comments MLB http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16867360?source=rss_blogs_MLB Here I go again with my finger firmly on the pulse -- I said pulse -- of America. ... MIlton B. isn't pissing me off. I'm the only one Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:49:14 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16867360?source=rss_blogs_MLB http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16838814?source=rss_blogs_NCAAB#comments NCAAB http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16838814?source=rss_blogs_NCAAB Not sure what that says about me -- not sure I want to know -- but in the last few days I've started to sympathize with, and empathize for, and now flat out like, Rick Pitino. ... Damn I'm starting to like Rick Pitino Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:27:48 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16838814?source=rss_blogs_NCAAB http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16829175?source=rss_blogs_NCAAB#comments NCAAB http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16829175?source=rss_blogs_NCAAB Nope. That would be the athletics director, someone named Pete Garcia, who had the nerve and the gall and the outright miscomprehension to complain that FIU is being "bullied" into opening its season against defending national champion Nort ... Turns out Isiah isn't the biggest idiot at FIU Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:33:28 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16829175?source=rss_blogs_NCAAB http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16810931?source=rss_blogs_NBA#comments NBA http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16810931?source=rss_blogs_NBA But I don't. Sorry. Sue me for being a bad guy, a hard heart, a cold soul. ... I'm supposed to sympathize with Michael Beasley Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:21:46 EDT http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/16810931?source=rss_blogs_NBA 100 http://images.cbssports.com/images/cbsdm/spec/cbssportscom.gif http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/view/5881996 100 Blogg Doyel : CBSSports.com Blogs