Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Bobby Knight famously said after a tough fight with LSU: "I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance." That has to be how the Ohio State coaching staff thinks when it looks across the field and sees Steve Sarkisian 151
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Ben Shelton is going against Zverev at 1 pm on Sunday ... Sunday afternoon ... 1 pm ET ... THIS Sunday, because they didn't figure out how to do it LAST Sunday when nothing was happening ... I love you, tennis, but ... seriously? 111
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Look, MAC and Western Michigan, yeah, it all absolutely sucks, and it's TOTALLY a bad look for Michigan and the Big Ten, but ... “If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.” 000
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The MAC would like Western Michigan to be "recognized" as the winner over Michigan On another note, I would like the world to recognize me as the 2003 version of Brad Pitt Everyone, please act accordingly 001
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Tommy Castellanos left Boston College for an 800k deal with Florida State. Now he's at Texas Tech for, reportedly, another 800k ... but he's NOT a professional Meanwhile, the world is losing its mind over a few guys with college eligibility who went to NFL training camps 000
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I'm trying, Ringo. I'm trying REAL HARD to care that guys who get paid to play football are transferring from the Cleveland and New Orleans training camps - NOT the 53-man roster - to LSU, instead of coming directly from Ole Miss. 142
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Since we're all just giving ourselves stuff now - like Missouri pretending it won a national championship in a season when it finished fifth - I'm declaring myself the 1987 People's Sexiest Man Alive A historical wrong has been made right (Harry Hamlin my ass) 100
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 27/08/2026ESPN replacing its BottomLIne college football ticker with Pat McAfee 010
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Sign a deal to get paid to play at Alabama one year, and then sign a deal to get paid at Ohio State a year later ... All good Sign with the Browns for ten minutes ... NO NO NO BAD BAD BAD DIE DIE DIE They're ALL professionals now. (This is seriously the dumbest offseason ever) 110
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I get why the Big Ten and SEC aren't allowing NFL players to return - it feels wrong. I GET IT, but ... Seriously, what's the difference between that and returning from working at, say, Arby's. Playing in the NFL is just a job. Nothing more. 000
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Pat McAfee dropped an album? Dear sweet merciful lord, please get us to the opening kickoff of North Carolina vs TCU faster 000
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Wonderwall yesterday, to Disco Inferno-mixed Madonna, to Muppets ... cleansing the World Cup from Country Roads, Take Me Home 030
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Hi, I'm Fiu (Everyone: "Hi, Fiu") ... and I'm watching The Open at 3 am, because a big sports event is happening and I make bad life choices. 000
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Everyone who doesn't like soccer and thinks they'll like it after the World Cup, it's the Patio pitch in Mad Men ... "It sounds right, smells right. Something's not right. What is it?" "It's not Ann-Margret." There's no way to match the existential intensity of the World Cup. 000
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I get the offside thing. I really, REALLY do. But that Norway dude was offside only because he was simply faster than the Brazil guy in a full-on sprint. That just seems like a big bag of not right. 020
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 04/07/2026FOX World Cup pregame goes to commercial with a “yay America 250!”AI thing with soccer balls and the Statue of Liberty to the song … “Fortunate Son” by CCR Oh, FOX … bless your heart 150
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Wonderwall > Take Me Home, Country Roads That's like France vs. a junior high team playing with nine guys 010
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Things that were NOT better "back in my day" compared to now ... the seamlessness of great sports stuff with easy viewing access Woke up to playoff golf between Scheffler and Hovland, right into a good Sinner match at Wimbledon, and World Cup about to start. That's pretty good. 010
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Thursday, July 30 in Chicago Big Ten Media Days: Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, Northwestern, Washington Lollapalooza: John Summit, Lorde, Wet Leg, Viagra Boys, Empire of the Sun, Devault Cignetti at the Tito's Handmade Vodka stage has to happen 020
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 17/06/2026There are few dumber things in sports than offsides in soccer Get back on D, son (Seriously, imagine if a receiver couldn't run past a DB in football on a deep ball, or you couldn't get out on a fast break in hoops) 231
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I'm a World Cup casual, so I fully admit that it just might be me who doesn't get it. Rebecca Lowe is always great, and the taped pieces are strong, but the rest of the FOX main studio show is a truly bizarre, incoherent mess. Is that soccer-Gronk guy supposed to be funny? 010
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 16/06/2026After all of the Brendan Sorsby hoo-ha, and college football being about lawsuits, and lawmakers, and so much blah, blah, blah ... Thank you, Iran and New Zealand for showing that, on the field, sports don't have to suck 040
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Here's the punchline. Considering Texas Tech's schedule, without Brendan Sorsby, this is probably an 11-1 season, with a ceiling being the CFP semis with the right breaks. With him, this is probably an 11-1 season, with a ceiling being the CFP semis with the right breaks. 171
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 05/06/2026There needs to be a mandatory viewing of Blue Chips by Congress before one more word about a bill to legislate college athletics is discussed ("Happy" and the Friends of the Program were the dead-on-right, ahead-of-their-time good guys) 030
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Inside the NBA on ESPN/ABC still feels like “Don Draper, McCann Erickson” 000
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Not since Chas Osborne needing to tap out on Grand Valley’s diving meet has there been a cramping disaster as bad as what’s happening to Jannik Sinner 000
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 24/05/2026EPL relegation is the biggest bad-ass thing in sports (Especially in the Everyone Gets A Cookie era of playoff expansion) 030
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I can not BELIEVE I'm arguing against the ceaseless 24-team CFP whining (I'm on the TOO MANY TEAMS side) Amazing how many who do what I do have zero real-world clue that a vast majority of fans are casuals who just want to have fun on a Saturday The regular season will be fine 010
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 13/05/2026(Again, NOT for a 24-team College Football Playoff, but ...) "The top players will opt out ..." whining I don't want to hear it If Johnny First Round ducks out with an Al Czervik "ooh, my arm" thing, that's on the schools if they don't build the expanded CFP into the NIL deals 000
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 13/05/2026(NOT for 24 - it's too many, but ... ) 1) No one is hearing what the power conferences are screaming at us - they don't want their better teams to be in a bunch of dead mid-level bowl games (unless they're a part of a playoff) 2) Remember, bowls are a revenue suck for schools 110
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 08/05/20261998: (When CFN started) Poll 'n' Bowl became BCS (Doom, gloom ... everything was fine) 2014: 4-team College Football Playoff (Doom, gloom ... everything was fine) 2024: 12-team CFP (Doom, gloom ... everything was fine) 2027: 16 or 24-team CFP? (Everything will be fine) 010
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 29/04/2026NO, the problem isn't the March Madness expansion to 76 teams - fine, whatever, we'll all watch The issue is that the 12 play-in games (probably) won't be played by the 24 lowest-ranked teams In an NIL Gone Wild era, those give-them-a-cookie, one-bid champs will be even worse 010
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 24/04/2026This 8-minute NFL Draft first round pick time clock sucks. This is Christmas morning. Let us relax and enjoy it. 020
Reposted by Pete FiutakPete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 19/04/2026I haven't watched SportsCenter in a long, long time. I didn't see anything that happened in sports today, got back late, turned on ESPN, and ... ten minutes and counting of WWE in the first 14 minutes of the show?! Nothing at all against this stuff if it's your thing, but ... 173
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 19/04/2026I haven't watched SportsCenter in a long, long time. I didn't see anything that happened in sports today, got back late, turned on ESPN, and ... ten minutes and counting of WWE in the first 14 minutes of the show?! Nothing at all against this stuff if it's your thing, but ... 173
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 16/04/20262026 NFL Draft Center Rankings: CFN’s College Football Perspective collegefootballnews.com/nfl/2026-nfl...collegefootballnews.com2026 NFL Draft Center Rankings: CFN’s College Football PerspectiveIt's a thin year for centers, but a few late fliers are worth a shot. Here are CFN’s 2026 NFL Draft center rankings from the college football perspective. 010
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Yes, the Play-In Tournament is TOTALLY a part of NBA Playoffs ... 67% of all NBA teams make the post-season Fewer than 9% of teams make the College Football Playoff, and fewer than 19% of teams make the men's NCAA Tournament 100
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 14/04/2026It's 2026. The NCAA punishing a team for the tickiest-tackiest of recruiting violations now is like Blockbuster trying to collect a late fee for that DVD of Good Will Hunting sitting in the back of your closet Ooooooh, Iowa has to vacate wins ...media.tenor.coma man is holding a cell phone in front of a sign that says espALT: a man is holding a cell phone in front of a sign that says esp 010
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Seriously, to everyone not familiar with this UConn team and screaming about the foul disparity (with Michigan going back to the line as we speak) ... UConn is 310th in the nation in free throw attempts, and 243rd in fouls committed, for a reason 221
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Here’s the weirdest thing about all the politicians looking to “fix” college sports Who loses if the proposals go through? SEC, Big Ten, ACC, and Big 12 schools The ones with the massive alumni bases, media markets, and rich donors who give $ to other things - like politicians 010
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 01/04/2026OLD April Fools’ Day articles I did that could come true in a 2026 world … Herschel Walker Returns With One Year of Remaining Eligibility Tim Tebow Leading Republican Presidential Candidate Penn State Fires Assistants For AI Joe Paterno Big Ten To Become The BIG Conference 000
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Glad these games are so late - tonight's Big Ten basketball porn is getting filthier 010
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 25/03/2026I know this has become totally lost, but colleges and universities don't need sports to function as an institution of higher learning. "How is (insert school) supposed to compete?" Well ... don't, if you don't want to invest in the entertainment. Go teach students stuff. 020
Reposted by Pete FiutakPete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Nine schools won both an NCAA men's basketball title and a college football national championship (only AP, Coaches/UPI, and NCF pre-1936 count ... no on 1964 Arkansas football) 4 are obvious, 3 are gettable, and no chance on the last 2 (power conference programs, but I had no shot) 202
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Nine schools won both an NCAA men's basketball title and a college football national championship (only AP, Coaches/UPI, and NCF pre-1936 count ... no on 1964 Arkansas football) 4 are obvious, 3 are gettable, and no chance on the last 2 (power conference programs, but I had no shot) 202
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 22/03/2026I need an "I'd rather be in a Vegas sportsbook right now for the last three minutes of Nebraska-Vanderbilt" bumper sticker 010
Pete Fiutak @petefiutak.bsky.social · 22/03/2026The only reason Cinderella got the prince was because of a fantastic NIL deal from a well-to-do benefactor that put all the pieces in place. A 12-seed playing well in the second round of the NCAA Tournament is not that. 000