Bigger story: Appy State or Boston no-hitter?

No, I'm just indifferent about the NFL. I love baseball, the NHL, college football and college basketball but wouldn't miss the NFL if it went away.

 

With its French origin, it should be Lou-E-ville

 

Fox Sports Radio (I was out of range for ESPN radio) kept calling it App-a-lach-i-an (long a in the lach) on Saturday. Got sort of annoying.

 

So how many St. Lou-E Cardinals games have you seen?

Origins mean little when it comes to current-day pronunciations.

It's Ver-SIGH in France but Ver-sales (home of Woodford Reserve) in Kentucky.

 

Yes, it was a great upset, but to me, it wasn't overly surprising. It was bound to happen sooner rather than later - look at how the top teams in the lesser conferences have been able to knock off BCS teams in the past few years. And Michigan was vastly overrated - most anyone in Michigan would agree they weren't preseason No. 5. And in 2005-06, App. State was only trailing in Baton Rouge vs. LSU 14-0 in the fourth quarter before losing 24-0, and in 2003 Western Illinois visited LSU and was ranked No. 2, 3 or 4 in I-AA and only trailed the Tigers 13-7 until there were 5 minutes left in the third quarter. Final of that one was 35-7. And lets not forget Troy State, which just moved up to I-A a few years ago, and only lost 24-20 to LSU (last year? 05-06?)

Point is, these top I-AA teams have as much speed and talent in their starters as does any I-A team, because A, they can still offer 62? scholarships, and top-level kids fall through the I-A cracks for various reasons, mostly because they "don't project" body/size-wise, which we know is an unpredictable factor (ie, Doug Flutie, Dave Meggett, Earl Boykins, etc etc etc). Look at where the best receiver in NFL history and one of the greatest running backs in NFL history went to college for proof.

 

That's great. And what do all those I-AA teams that came close have in common? They lost.

I don't know which drunk Boston looser fanboy thinks that some joker's no-hitter (what, the third of the year??) is better than the most surprising college football result of all time, but let us know when you yak off your hangover.

 

I agree with the "No-hitter was newer."

The Globe that I got in the Green Mountain State didn't have the no-hitter. (As I expected).

Everyone who watched SportsCenter Sunday morning knew about Appalachian State. Some didn't know about the no-hitter, which was bigger than normal because 1. He was a rookie in his second game, and 2. It was the Red Sox.

Ooops. Now I sound like the Michigan fan.

 

My sports editor is from East Tennessee, and my dad went to grad school at East Tennessee State. They said nobody up there says "Appa-LAY-shun" or "Appa-LAY-chun." Just "Appa-LATCH-un." I hate it when people say "Appa-LAY-shun." Just like when people say "BAT-TAWN Rouge."

 

True that, Dargan. And I'll never, ever respect the Illinois pronunciation of Des Plaines (River) as "DESS-planes." It should be "day-pleh" or "plenn"

 

I was gonna say:

That would be me.

It's not necessarily *bigger*, but it's the lead because it happened eight hours before, not 15.

OK, I just realizedI *am* arguing from an East Coast perspective.

Many papers out here had little on the no-hiter because it happened so late. I just realized that on the West Cost, it was over at 8 p.m.

Mea culpa.