Tuesday--January 27th, 2015

Well, my snow blower is all gassed up and I'm ready to do battle. Only about four inches of snow so far in Jaffrey.

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Max Moore of Hustle Belt is excited about kicker Mike Caggiano verbaling to the Minutemen.

Mike Karpinski has a post about the seven UMass commits.

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Will the FBS full-cost-of-attendance stipend force FCS schools to do the same? Interesting point. Will the non-FBS schools who want to be top-tier in other sports (Villanova in hoops, UMass-Lowell in hockey for example) give full-cost-of-attendance to those sports. Anything they do for a men's team has to be done for the women's team because of Title IX. Could basketball players at Villanova, men's and women's get the stipend and other sports athletes not?

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MLive.com has an article on Eastern Michigan wanting to bale on their game with Michigan State.

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The Star-Telegram says deflategate is all about home field advantage and hating on Bill Belichick. Patriots fans will not be surprised that Bill is not held with a lot of affection in other parts of the country.

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ESPN reports 45,000 people showed up for Ohio State's Nation Championship celebration.

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