Tim Hyland

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Tim Hyland

Tim Hyland

@IntelligentCFB

College football writer, podcaster and bon vivant. Host of The Old College Try Show. Former essayist for College Football News. Occasional radio guest. Etc.

Flourtown, Pa. Joined Ocak 2009
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I mean, I love college football as much as anyone. But I can’t think of a major sports championship event that I look less forward to than ours. The day sucks. The time sucks. It lacks tradition. It lacks gravitas. It lacks ... Saturday.
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EPL fan here. There will be an initial rush to praise this system. With time fans will hate it. When you all of a sudden can’t celebrate a called third strike by your reliever in the ninth in a huge game because of review, things will change. Goals aren’t fun anymore in EPL.
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There are moments that offer a pretty good sense that something new is going to work. This feels like one for ABS. The Cincinnati crowd’s reaction was thunderous. And the situation itself — twice it salvaged a bases-loaded opportunity. This system plays.

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We are going to host the worst World Cup ever.
The Athletic | Football@TheAthleticFC

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) intends to almost quadruple its usual prices for a round-trip train ticket from the center of Boston to Gillette Stadium during the 2026 World Cup. According to the MBTA website, the authority usually charges people $20 for a return ticket from train stations in the center of Boston for special events such as New England Patriots games in the NFL, New England Revolution in MLS, or concerts. However, soccer fans who attended the exhibition match between France and Brazil at Gillette Stadium in Foxoboro on Thursday saw the price increased by 50 per cent, up to $30 per-person, without any options of concessions. The purchase regulations stated that children under 11 would need to possess a valid ticket. Yet even the prices charged on Thursday are set to more than double during the World Cup this summer, while they will be almost four times the usual prices asked of NFL and MLS fans. Exclusive story from @AdamCrafton_ and @mjshrimper here ⬇️ 🔗 nytimes.com/athletic/71501…

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Penn State has clinched the national title (again) in wrestling. This is their fifth straight, and they have won 13 out of the last 15. A run of dominance that may be unmatched in college sports history.
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So many brandings/rebrandings go so wrong. I am biased but also have some background as a Cleveland native on the history they tapped into here — perfection on every level. Classic, honest, true, beautiful. Ordering merch ASAP.
Camryn Justice@camijustice

Cleveland’s new professional men’s soccer club unveiled its identity today as Forest City Cleveland. Forest City Cleveland, part of Cleveland Soccer Group, will begin play in MLS NEXT Pro in 2027.

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This concluding graph …
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Truly believe that Jonathan Liew from The Guardian might be the most eloquent sportswriter working today. This is about soccer in England, but it could easily be transposed over college football at the moment. theguardian.com/football/2026/…
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11. That being said, I would not be inclined to that again, and as much as I love baseball, I would not want a pitcher throwing a ball at my head either.
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10. Phil was an interesting guy and he’s not necessarily the dude I would have picked to have my life in his hands but he didn’t miss once. Every time he hit that thing it sent waves of terror through my body. But we got the axle out.
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9. I understood this to be perfectly reasonable direction from Phil but let me tell you it took all I could muster to get through those next 10 minutes. This was not a ‘one swing and we are good’ situation.
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8. As we got started Phil told me, ‘whatever you do, don’t move.’
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7. Phil would take a few steps to my left, crank up that sledge, and hit the spud bar that was resting on my shoulder. If he missed by a couple of inches well things would not go well for me.
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6. Phil explained what we were going to do: my job was to crouch next to the bus, facing the bus, with one end of the spud bar butted up against the axle, the other end resting just off the back of my shoulder. It became clear what Phil’s job was.
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5. I’m guessing the sledgehammer had a 45 pound head on it. The spud bar must have weighed 80 pounds at least. Things started to feel ominous.
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4. I eventually asked Phil what we were going to do. He told me to hold on a minute and left. When he came back he had a sledgehammer with a 6 foot long handle and a spud bar (imagine lost a long, very heavy metal rod, blunted on both ends) that had to be 5 feet long.
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