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02/2 2011

News@Noon(ish): Signing Day Fun, BP Reboot, NFL Labor, ‘Burgh QBs, Groundhog Day

Posted by Dan Levy.

Very busy day with two shows (go listen to them) and a host of other things going on. So…to the links.

• Signing day? Follow EDSBS, where they likely won’t break any recruiting news, but you can see a rubber duck covered in sludge. And other hilarious college footballish things. (this is less link and more PSA. You’re welcome.)

• It’s almost Super Bowl time, so let’s get depressed about the likelihood of a lockout. Stephanie Stradley — a fellow BFL participant this season — has a rundown at her Chron.com blog Texans Chick.

• For this year’s game, I was starting to hope Pittsburgh wins just to get the on-air exchange between Terry Bradshaw and Ben Roethlisberger. Bradshaw is handing out the Lombardi Trophy and it would be hilarious to see Roethlisberger take the trophy from him and the two deck each other, then hug it out like Rick Vaughn and Roger Dorn at the end of Major League.

Alas, it happened already; the meeting, not the deck and hug. From Dan Wetzel at Yahoo:

They were face-to-face now in the bowels of Cowboys Stadium, outside Locker Room C that Fox Sports had converted into an interview room. Here on Tuesday morning was the great Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback of the past (Terry Bradshaw) and the present (Ben Roethlisberger(notes)), and absolutely no one knew what was going to happen next.

Click the link to read the rest.

• We wrote about Urban Meyer’s deal with ESPN — he’s all over ESPNU today by the way — and wondered about the conflict of calling SEC games with obvious ties to those at Florida. Well, one of those ties has been cut. The Orlando Sentinel:

With concerns over potential NCAA recruiting violations, new ESPN college football analyst and former University of Florida football coach Urban Meyer has been forced to break financial ties with the Gators, the Sentinel has learned.

Meyer had remained on UF’s payroll in an undefined role since resigning as coach in December. But earlier this week when he signed a deal to become a college football analyst for ESPN, it raised red flags with the SEC and NCAA. After UF contacted those organizations about the potentially problematic situation, the wheels were set in motion for Meyer to being taken off the university’s payroll.

• Baseball Prospectus is rebooting with a whole new host of writers. Most exciting for me is the fact that Larry Granillo from Wezen Ball is taking his Tater Tracker to BP. Wait…are they making that a subscription post? Oh, this could suck.

• Last, via Jamie Mottram’s Tumblr comes all the Ned Ryerson scenes from Groundhog Day.

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