Tag: Lang’s World
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Lang’s World: Always Changing
This is a hard but true fact of life. As much as we crave constancy, the world around us is always changing, and sometimes we have to change, as well. It isn’t always easy, it isn’t always fun, but change is going to happen, with or without you.
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Lang’s World: We’re Ready for Season 2
Now that we’re into 2019, the season two draft is just a few weeks away. I’m assembling my crew and getting ready to put in hours scouting and prepping for the season two draft. Season one was not easy, but going through it taught me a ton, about myself, about my team, and about the…
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Lang’s World: Ready For The Ride
While this season’s Grizzlies team and coaching staff is mostly new, Gasol remains the same, averaging about 16 points and boards, knocking down a few threes per game, and playing free safety for one of the NBA’s most stingy defenses. The 2018-19 season still has a ways to go, but Marc Gasol seems ready for…
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Lang’s World: Why the College Football Playoff needs to change
The best thing about this year’s College Football Playoff is that it has proven plainly that the College Football Playoff needs to change. At least, if you want to have some fun.
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Lang’s World: The future of Memphis Tigers football? It’s complicated
If you are a Memphis Tigers football fan, what is it that you want? Before we get to the answer, in this case we need to examine the question, which is self-explanatory, really: What’s the goal? This is also a good catch-all consideration for life, I suppose, but more than that it’s important for University…
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Lang’s World: UGA shows they’re good, not great, not yet
The University of Georgia Bulldogs are one of the four best college football teams in the country. But at the same time, I do not think they deserve to be in the college football playoffs. As great as UGA has been this season, they’ve also never reached their full potential and haven’t played consistently great,…
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Lang’s World: Let’s take a ride on the coaching carousel
In a sport where the players don’t get paid, all that money has to go somewhere, and most of it seems to go to hiring and firing coaches. And if you listen real closely, you can hear the coaching carousel beginning to spin.
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Lang’s World: Giving Thanks for College Football
My family didn’t have many traditions for the Thanksgiving holiday, other than snoring loudly post-meal in various reclining chairs. But the one moment we always managed to make time for as we sat down around the table, just before we dug in, was when we would go around the table and each say something for…
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Lang’s World: Who’s In, Who’s Out of the College Football Playoff?
We are a dozen weeks into the college football season, and by now we have a pretty good idea of which teams have legit claims to the throne. So who deserves to be in the final four? As I see it, there are 10 teams with a legitimate claim to be invited to the small…
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Lang’s World: Conley ‘getting my feet back under me, being mentally right where I need to be’
Just a few games into the 2017-18 season, Mike Conley’s season was done. Season-ending surgery was required. So what do you do when the thing you love to do, that thing you were born to do, is taken away from you? So Conley sat and thought. A lot.