SB Nation User Blog: 40AS

Baseball Preseason #1

40AS — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:02:12 -0000

Baseball Preseason #1

According to Collegiate Baseball, edging out #2 LSU. The Horns this season will face #11 Rice, #25 Oklahoma, #26 Stanford, #29 Texas A&M and #40 Dallas Baptist.

Colt a Heisman Finalist

40AS — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:10:29 -0000

Colt a Heisman Finalist

McCoy was named a finalist for the award on Monday, along with Stanford's Toby Gerhart, Alabama's Mark Ingram, Nebraska's Ndamukong Suh and Florida's Tim Tebow.

Colt McCoy: All American

40AS — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:13:51 -0000

Colt, Chris Hall and Earl Thomas were named All-Americans today by the American Football Coaches Association. Earl is the only sophomore on defense and one of two on the list (Mark Ingram being the other.

Bill Byrne Is NOT Into Moral Victories

40AS — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:32:58 -0000

Bill Byrne Is NOT Into Moral Victories

I'm not much into posting Fan Shots, but here's a Fan Shot.

Friday Football Open Thread

40AS — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:47:30 -0000

We've got Auburn-Alabama just starting on CBS and Cincy rolling up Illinois on ABC. Later tonight we've got WVU-Pitt and Boise State-Nevada.

Sure Sucks to Be A Sooner

40AS — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:48:50 -0000

Sure Sucks to Be A Sooner

OU basketball lost for the third straight time to an unranked team, this time to Tom Penders.

Dan Hawkins Coming Back

40AS — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:41:14 -0000

Dan Hawkins Coming Back

Surprising but not really shocking considering the size of his buyout. At least someone in Boulder is having a good Thanksgiving.

Not sure there's been a more beloved senior class.

40AS — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:45:12 -0000

Not sure there's been a more beloved senior class.

Injury Report -- Thanksgiving Week

40AS — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:39:58 -0000

There are two obvious injury stories we're following, made even bigger by the upcoming short week before the Aggy game. Aaron Williams hurt his knee and John Chiles hurt his ankle. Williams couldn't put pressure on his knee coming off the field but was able to get off the field via his own power (rather than on a cart). That was the first good sign that this wasn't a season ending injury. Ironically a man can walk (and in some cases play) on a torn ACL, but a bruised or sprained knee is immediately incredibly painful and debilitating.

Fortunately, as noted in the fan shots, the early word out of Austin is that both players are "day-to-day". Day-to-day is one of those funny ways of saying "we don't really know how long these guys will be out but we think it won't be too long", so odds are neither will play against Aggy on Thursday given the short game week. Hopefully they'll be back for Nebraska but time will tell. Roderick Muckelroy was healthy and played against Kansas, so that was good. Only other injury note is that Ben Wells and Clark Ford are out for A&M. More to come later in the week and in the comments of this post.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Horns #3 in BCS

40AS — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:37:22 -0000

Horns #3 in BCS

Horns gain .0002, TCU gains .0014. Safe to say TCU is pretty much in need of a Texas loss or losses by both SEC contenders.