MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1915 We’re not sure how far back we will go with this miniseries (maybe just to the year of the first Rose Bowl?), but today is another look at the mythical national champion on MNC Wednesday. Not…

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Celebrating the legacy of legendary Georgetown men's basketball coach John Thompson

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John Thompson was #blackexcellence personified!

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📚 On This Day in Black History – April 2, 1984 📚

Today we honor John Thompson Jr., who made history as the first African American head coach to win the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship.

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1916 As this MNC Wednesday prequel miniseries goes back deeper and deeper in time, it gets a little more rough trying to decipher numbers in a spreadsheet. Yet in the absence of reliable objectivity in …

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1917 The historically deep(er) MNC Wednesday prequel miniseries makes another appearance today, to explore the mythical national championship in an era where most of us can hardly imagine what life was …

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1918 The MNC Wednesday prequel miniseries returns this fine day after St. Patrick’s Day to check in on the 1918 season, which included a Rose Bowl on January 1, 1919. This year is a strange one to…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1919 When it comes to sports and the year 1919, no one thinks of college football. But our MNC Wednesday prequel miniseries continues today to assess “established” mythical national championship analysi…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1920 Our MNC Wednesday prequel miniseries continues today to assess “established” mythical national championship analysis. This was clearly a hit-or-miss process to retroactively decide an M…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1921 We are back again this week with the MNC Wednesday prequel miniseries, and after the 1922 doozy last week, we’re hoping for something a bit more calming this time out with the mythical nation…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1922 Our MNC Wednesday prequel miniseries moves back another year in time today , looking at retroactive mythical national championship selections. Once again, like our last look at the 1923 season, we …

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1923 This MNC Wednesday prequel miniseries takes on the banner year of 1923 today. It is an interesting year as our two retroactive mythical national championship selectors combined to pick two champion…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1924 We’re back today with our MNC Wednesday miniseries, diving deeper into the past to see if the “experts” got it right. Sometimes they do, but as we move back through time, the last…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1925 The MNC Wednesday miniseries got a little sidetracked in the last five months, so we apologize. But it’s a good time to re-visit the early days of college football and the mythical national c…

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MNC Wednesday: The 2025 Heisman Revisited It is well past that time of year again, for our ongoing MNC Wednesday miniseries entries scrutinizing Heisman Trophy votes, as the 2025 winner was announced last month. We have not agreed with the…

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Wednesday Wizengamot: The Basic End of Our NCAA Coverage The Wednesday Wizengamot is here this day, the final one of 2025, to declare that we are done covering (most) contemporary, revenue-generated college sports. We’re going to take the high road…

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Saturday Smugness: How Lame is Notre Dame? Checking in with our fledgling weekend piece, Saturday Smugness, and we take on Notre Dame football, which recently made news for getting shafted by the College Football Playoff, rightfully re…

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Thursday Thorns: Texas Tech Buys Its CFP Ticket We are back with a Thursday Thorns column for the first time in awhile, for no reason we can discern. But today we take on the sad state of college sports, again, with the reality of schools with d…

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Thursday Thorns: “Student Athletes” No More Our Thursday Thorns piece this week points out something kind of obvious: in the revenue-generating college sports these days, the athletes are no longer students, really, in the traditional sense.…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1926 The MNC Wednesday miniseries continues with the prequel years, those before the onset of the Associated Press polling era that began in 1936. This season we explore today is odd, as the even the ex…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1927 We always have enjoyed our MNC Wednesday miniseries, as it is was one of the originals here when we expanded to near-daily postings at the onset of the 2020 Covid lockdown. We started then with the…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1928 Our MNC Wednesday “prequel” miniseries returns this week as we journey back to the innocent times of 1928. We have done eight of these prequel evaluations, and seven times now we have agreed with t…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1929 The MNC Wednesday “prequel” miniseries returns this week as we go back in time to 1929. Everyone remembers that year for the Stock Market Crash, which happened in the middle of the college football…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1930 The MNC Wednesday “prequel” miniseries continues as we go back in time to 1930. Herbert Hoover was President; the Philadelphia Athletics won the World Series. And Notre Dame football had the attent…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1931 Our MNC Wednesday “prequel” miniseries returns this week with a look at the 1931 college football season. America still was stuck in the Great Depression, and the New Deal wouldn’…

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1932 The MNC Wednesday miniseries was one of our original pieces of regular programming, going back to March 2020. We are proud of the revisions we made to historical mistakes, and we intend to keep doi…

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What Is Legacy? The Story Behind a Number and a Life Well Lived | PEP UNLIMITED LLC Some athletes begin their stories with a number on their backs—something chosen, something symbolic. But for Roanoke College men’s lacrosse coach Bill Pilat, his legacy began with the number he didn’t...

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What Is Legacy? The Story Behind a Number and a Life Well Lived | PEP UNLIMITED LLC Some athletes begin their stories with a number on their backs—something chosen, something symbolic. But for Roanoke College men’s lacrosse coach Bill Pilat, his legacy began with the number he didn’t...

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Thursday Thorns: “Pac-12” puts three teams into College World Series The Thursday Thorns column series reminds us all of the uncomfortable facts and realities in the sports world today, so with much bitterness, we’d like to point out something about the final …

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MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1933 Our MNC Wednesday miniseries continues with prequel installments: we are reviewing the pre-Associated Press mythical national championships prior to 1936, in reverse chronological order. Sabermetri…

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