Beaver Pelt Trader of the Week and Our First All That and a Bag of Mail Friday, September 5, 2008
After a long summer's hiatus (during which time I promised on countless occasions that the mailbag would be back up and running), we're finally back. On a week while I'm still dazed from the West Coast beating that UT took and also on the day after Bobby Johnson pulls off another beatdown of Steve Spurrier. Will Vandy wonders under BJ never cease?
Anyway, that makes our beaver pelt trader of the week an easy call. . .
Twenty score and 1 million words ago, a Nation was born Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Three long years ago, in early fall 2005, I filed my first ClayNation column for the SPiN section of what was then CBSSportsLine.com. It dealt with crying in relation to sporting events. The actual CBS link has long since faded into Internet oblivion. . .
Clay Travis is the only former student manager in the history of college athletics to marry an NFL cheerleader. He managed to pull this off despite an irrational affinity for the television shows Dawson's Creek and My Super Sweet 16. While being raised in Nashville, Tenn., Travis developed a healthy obsession with college sports and Alyssa Milano. As a teenager his greatest accomplishment was taking a doo-rag wearing Luke Duke (balling as Tom Wopat) to the hole at the Nashville YMCA.
In the midst of a stellar legal career during which he specialized in rewarding the unjust and punishing the oppressed, Travis began writing for CBS Sports's SPiN section in September 2005... Read More...
There is no college ball more passionate and competitive than football in the Southeastern Conference, where seven of the twelve schools boast stadiums bigger than any in the NFL and 6.5 million fans hit the road every year to hoot and holler their teams to victory.
In September 2006, popular sports columnist and lifelong University of Tennessee fan Clay Travis set out on his "Dixieland Delight Tour." Without a single map, hotel reservation, or game ticket, he began an 8,000-mile journey through the beating heart of the Southland. As Travis toured the SEC, he immersed himself in the bizarre game-day rituals of the common fan, brazenly dancing with the chancellor's wife at a Vanderbilt frat party, hanging with University of Florida demigod quarterback Tim Tebow, and abandoning himself totally to the ribald intensity and religious fervor of SEC football. Dixieland Delight is Travis's hilarious, loving, irreverent, and endlessly entertaining chronicle of a season of ironic excess in a world that goes a little crazy on football Saturdays.
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