College Football Week Six: Cheerleader Edition

It’s almost the weekend and that means you’re only hours from sitting on your couch, eating bags of Doritos and watching as much football as your beer-addled brain can handle. And if it doesn’t mean that, you’re doing something wrong with your life. To prepare you for this week’s game line-up, we’ve put together a prediction run-down of all the big games, all with the help of some sexy cheerleaders. Hut, hut, HIKE!

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College Football Week Five: Cheerleader Edition

If you are still high from Oregon State’s Jacquizz Rodgers schooling of the USC defense on Thursday, then it is time for the Saturday NCAA breakdown.

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College Football Week Three: Cheerleader Edition

Welcome back, football fans, for another installment of College Football Preview Cheerleader Edition. We’ve got games, stats, predictions–and a ton of freakin’ cheerleaders. We’re not saying it’s the best way to check out what games are coming up for the weekend, but…wait a minute…Yes we are!

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A Guide To The People In Your College Library

A Guide To The People In Your College Library

With colleges all over America starting up, we here at the Taco feel it’s important to prepare incoming freshman for the people they might meet in their University’s library. [Holytaco]

Oklahoma Campus Hopes To Be Powered By Wind By ‘13

The University of Oklahoma wants its main campus to be completely powered by wind by 2013, a plan the school’s president calls one of the largest renewable energy commitments ever made by a public university in the U.S.

“It is our patriotic duty as Americans to help our country achieve energy independence and to be sound stewards of the environment,” University President David Boren said Wednesday. “All of us as Americans should unite in this effort.” [Yahoo]

Texas Tops in Merchandise for Third Year

For the third straight straight year, the University of Texas led the nation in merchandise sales.

According to the Collegiate Licensing Company, which represents about 180 universities and colleges, UT topped such other merchandising heavyweights as Michigan, Florida, Notre Dame and North Carolina.

UT collected $8.2 million during that time, according to Craig Westemeier, assistant athletic director for trademark licensing at UT. [Statesman]

College Football Week Two: Cheerleader Edition

Finally, football season is in full swing and we’re freakin’ psyched! Last week’s opening games went pretty much as we predicted and we’re more than ready for this week. A lot of in, outs, what-have-you’s, and really, anyone could end up on top. Ok, not really anyone, but we don’t want to spoil your fun this early in the season. So here’s this week’s games of the top 10 presented by cheerleaders, as God intended.

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College Football Week One: Cheerleader Edition

As of Friday afternoon, everyone is at 0-0 (almost, sorry Baylor, you got hammered). With the openning day kick-off less than 24 hours away, let us put Obama/McCain on hold and turn our attention to young men being given free educations in exchange for engaging in the controlled violence that we in the U.S. call NCAA College Football.

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The Top 9 US Olympic Athlete Producing Colleges

If you’re anything like us, you’ve been sitting around on the couch, watching the best athletes in the world compete for international greatness while you stuff your face with Funyuns and refill your beer helmet thinking, “Where the hell do all these amazing athletes come from?”

Well, if they’re from the United States, they probably come from these nine schools, where some of the best athletes in the 2008 Beijing Summer Games developed their medal-winning talent. No place provides for top-notch coaching like college. And these nine schools have provided more Olympians than any others in the country. So get ready to find out where you should have gone to school. Read More »

Crack Addicts Shouldn’t be Heroes

Stop kissing Josh Hamilton’s ass. He doesn’t deserve all the praise and he certainly doesn’t deserve to be called a hero or a role model or a good influence. He was a complete f**k up, but because he’s can still play baseball better than almost anyone else alive we should praise him? No.

Yes, he was addicted to cocaine and crack for years. Yes, the fact that he seems to have made a full recovery is impressive (overcoming any addiction that overwhelms a person like that is impressive), but he’s not a great guy because of it. He should be working his way back to being an OK guy. Half a season of good baseball doesn’t clear him of all the bad sh*t he did before. Read More »

The Top 9 US Olympic Athlete Producing Colleges: #1

#1 Stanford University

Number of 2008 Olympians: 31

This place is more an Olympian-making machine than a school. If you’re good enough to get into Standford, and good enough to play on their teams, chances are you have a good shot at getting to the Olympics. Topping off the list with a whopping 31 Olympians, Stanford earned their first medals of the 2008 Olympic Games with exceptional swimming performances in the preliminary rounds of the men’s and women’s 4 x100m freestyle relays. Ben Wildman-Tobriner brought in gold and  junior Julia Smit won a silver, bringing Stanford’s all-time Olympic medal count to 199.

Men (15)

Women (16)

Source: NBCOlympics.com

The Top 9 US Olympic Athlete Producing Colleges: (4-6)

#6 University of North Carolina

Number of 2008 Olympians: 14

Sunny North Carolina owns the U.S. women’s field hockey team, with six of their olympians in Beijing for that sport alone. In fact, every single Olympian from UNC is female. This is the first Olympics since 1996 in Atlanta that the U.S. has had a qualifying field hockey team. And they snagged the 11th spot out of 12 teams chosen. But don’t fret, field hockey players are sometimes super hot, so now we can oogle over those ladies, instead of just the volleyball players.

Women (14)

#5 The University of California - Berkeley

Number of 2008 Olympians: (15)

Sneaking in the fifth place spot, UC Berkeley arrived in Beijing with gold(?), sliver and bronze medal winners. And in 2008, swimmer Natalie Coughlin already has three medals under her swimsuit, winning bronze in the 200-meter individual medley, silver in the 400 free, and gold in the 100-meter backstroke, bring her total medal count, for ‘o4 and ‘08, to eight. And that’s just what one of these Golden Bears can do.

Men (4)

Women (11)

#4 The University of Texas - Austin

Number of Olympians (16)

With seven repeat olympians, look out for Texas to dominate–or at least make a splash–in swimming, and hauling-ass in track and field. Former Longhorn Garrett Weber-Gale already helped the US team bring in gold and set world records in the nail-bitting men’s 400-meter relay. And Texas-Ex Cat Osterman continues to help the US softball team blaze their way through the competition, on their way to total world domination.

Men (11)

Women (5)

Source: NBCOlympics.com

The Top 9 US Olympic Athlete Producing Colleges: (2-3)

#3 The University of California - Los Angeles

Number of Olympians: 17

In addition to providing 17 members of Team USA, UCLA has students or alumni competing for countries across the globe, from Canada to Belize to the Bahamas. UCLA comes into Beijing with multiple gold medal winners and eight return Olympians. How do they get so many, you ask? Well, if it’s summer all the time, training for the Summer Games is made a little bit easier.

Men (5)

Women (12)

#2 The University of Southern California

Number of Olympians: 19

If you want to win gold, go to USC. Former Trojans Erik Vendt and Klete Keller, two powerhouses of the U.S. swimming team, brought USC Olympic gold in the 4×200-meter relay this year in Beijing, continuing the school’s gold-winning streak, having secured that medal in every Summer Games since 1912. That’s since before television…

Men (5)

Women (14)

Source: NBCOlympics.com

Student Designs Counter-Strike Map of School, Gets Arrested

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I’d like to say ‘this seems fake,’ but these days even the most ridiculous bullshit is turning out to be real. In Fort Bend, Texas, a Chinese student was arrested and expelled from school for designing a Counter-Strike map based on his school’s layout. Designing the map (check it out here) was seen as a ‘terrorist threat’.

The police searched his room and discovered a hammer, which the boy had used to fix his bed. The hammer was confiscated, and police continued to search for the deadly ‘hammer training simulator’ the boy had probably designed to turn the household tool into a deadly weapon of unimaginable power. Read More »