Tag: Lang’s World
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Lang’s World: These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things
I can’t speak for you, but raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens are not a few of my favorite things. While I appreciate the sentiment of that song we hear each holiday season — stopping to recognize the things that make each day a little better — the stuff that makes us not feel…
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Lang’s World: Who replaces Mike Norvell? Depends which type of coach the Memphis Tigers want
You don’t need me to tell you that Mike Norvell did an incredible job as football coach at the University of Memphis. He won more than twice as many games as he lost, he went to bowl games in each of his four seasons, he recruited the heck out of the region, and this year…
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Lang’s World: The GCM SEC Coaches Postseason Power Poll
The calendar finally flipped into December over the weekend, which means yet another SEC football regular season is in the books. Since we started the season with an SEC Coach power poll, it’s only fair that as the season draws to a close, we re-power the coaches and see who’s managed to climb, hang on…
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Lang’s World: Giving Thanks for College Football
It is that time of year again, when we gather with our friends and families and break out thick sweaters and instead of fretting over what we do not have, we can instead hopefully be thankful for everything we do have. This is something my Mom used to force us to do each Thanksgiving, although…
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Lang’s World: Ja Rules
It started pretty much immediately, just days week into the preseason schedule, when during the middle of a possession, Ja Morant drove down the lane and tried to dunk on Charlotte’s Miles Bridges. The Internet will burn when Ja Morant finishes this one next time. The defender here is is 6-foot-7 Miles Bridges, who has…
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Lang’s World: Alabama May Be Down, But Never Count Out Nick Saban
For very many years, college football fans clamored for a Playoff. The NCAA, in all of their infinite wisdom, finally said, “Sure! Oh, but only four teams can participate — after all, we can’t make this too fair!” So now this time each year for college football fans, Tuesday nights have become as important as…
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Lang’s World: Why I love Crocs
I still remember when it happened, a stroke of serendipity that changed my life forever. I was in Florida on vacation with my parents, and we ran into a few of their friends down at the dock. As I do with every person that I meet, I immediately surveyed the footwear of these people, and…
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Lang’s World: How do you make college football better? Tailgate
Football is not the only reason people go to football games. This may seem counterintuitive, which is understandable enough.There are many of us, after all, who attend football games for the express purpose of, duh, actually watching football. I am one of these people. I am one of these people. Most of the time, I…
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Lang’s World: Want to be a sports fan? Get ready to hurt.
Over the last few years, several electric scooter companies have flocked to Memphis. They cost a few dollars to rent for minutes at a time, and they ostensibly present a quick, sustainable way to get around town for short distances. I don’t live close enough to regularly ride a scooter to work, but a few…
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Lang’s World: Tennessee is in a bad place, but it’s not time to panic. Yet.
On Saturday morning, I had the rare luxury of having a few hours to myself. My wife was otherwise occupied, and with my son having an early afternoon soccer kickoff, I had the opportunity to do what I wanted, for a change. Shouts to Lil Uzi Vert. So I hopped in the car and hit…