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Don’t Call It A Comeback (Or, Why I’m Ready for 2010)

LL Cool J is right. I’ve been here for years. And I had my annual “Come Back to Football” moment at about 10:15 a.m. on Monday. As if I needed any tangible reason to get over-the-top excited about college football [...]

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Hard Feelings Expose Murphy-centric Universe

Former ASU baseball coach Pat Murphy, regardless of the fact that he now works five and a half hours away as the crow flies, is still finding a way to be injected into the College World Series [...]

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A Most Unlikely Road to Omaha

It wasn’t supposed to happen this quickly. Not that I’m complaining, but the cold hard fact is that a team who just lost their longtime head coach and was declared to demonstrate a “lack of institutional control” typically shouldn’t be [...]

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Tuesday Devil Blast – March 9, 2010

Follow Justin on Twitter, be his friend on Facebook and check out his weekly musings on Arizona State Sun Devil sports every Tuesday here on Pitchfork Nation. You can check out his other work at his personal website, www.justinkarp.net. An [...]

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Tuesday Devil Blast – March 2, 2010

There are a select few things that will ever make me turn off an Arizona State Sun Devils game of any type. Most of them are out of my control – maybe the fire alarm goes off where I’m at…threat [...]

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Tuesday Devil Blast – 2/16/2010

Follow Justin on Twitter, be his friend on Facebook and visit his personal website at JustinKarp.net. You can read his weekly musings on all things Arizona State every Tuesday on Pitchfork Nation and Fanster.com. The voices in my head are [...]

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The Problem Is With The System – One San Jose State Succumbed To

First off, I’d like to take the time to thank R.P. Cotta over at Inside Sparta for writing his rebuttal to last week’s Devil Blast and for a couple of you Spartan fans for making the effort to engage in [...]

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Tuesday Devil Blast – 2/9/10

Follow Justin on Twitter, be his friend on Facebook and visit his personal website at JustinKarp.net. You can check out his weekly Devil Blast every Tuesday on Pitchfork Nation at Fanster.com. UPDATE (2/12): Thanks to some keen eyes, many of [...]

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Tuesday Devil Blast – 2/2/10

Follow Justin on Twitter at @jskarp, be his friend on Facebook and check out his Devil Blast every Tuesday here on Pitchfork Nation and Fanster.com. I admit it – I give up. This is officially a Tuesday feature now. My [...]

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Monday Devil Blast – 1/25/10

Follow Justin on Twitter at @jskarp, be his friend on Facebook and look for his weekly Devil Blast every Monday here on Pitchfork Nation. First off…an apology obviously for having this a day late. I’m trying very hard to get [...]

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