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How to watch the 2013 Preakness live online, TV coverage, radio and more

2013-05-18T14:00:05Z

The horse racing world turns its attention to Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course for the 138th Preakness Stakes. The second leg of the Triple Crown is scheduled for Saturday afternoon, with a post time at 6:20 p.m. ET. Kentucky Derby winner Orb is the even money favorite in the nine-horse field. A win Saturday would give Orb a chance to win the first Triple Crown since 1978 three weeks later at the Belmont Stakes.

NBC Sports is once again providing television coverage of the Preakness Stakes. Network coverage begins at 4:30 p.m. Saturday live from Pimlico. Unlike the Kentucky Derby, there is no pre-race show on the NBC Sports Network.

NBC Sports is also providing streaming coverage of the race on its website, NBCSports.com.

The Horse Racing Radio Network will provide online radio coverage of the event, beginning with undercard races at 2 p.m. and shifting into full-on Preakness mode at 5 p.m.

A mobile app with odds, race information, and an event schedule is available at Preakness.com.

More Triple Crown coverage:

• Oxbow shocks at 15/1 | Video replay

• Longform: Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens returns

• 2013 Belmont Stakes info

• Complete 2013 Preakness Stakes coverage

• SB Nation's horse racing blog: And Down The Stretch They Come

NASCAR All-Star Race 2013: Start time, TV schedule for Saturday

2013-05-18T14:00:05Z

Carl Edwards will be on the pole under the lights Saturday night when the green flag flies for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series' 2013 NASCAR All-Star Race. Television coverage of Saturday's events is entirely on SPEED TV, with NASCAR RaceDay starting things off at 4 p.m. ET. Race coverage starts at 7 p.m., with post-race coverage at 11 p.m.

NASCAR and track owner Bruton Smith have made some changes to the format of this year's All-Star Race to improve competitiveness -- changes Martin Truex Jr. readily endorses. The race is divided into five segments, with the drivers' average finish in the first four segments dictating pit row order prior to the fifth and final 10-lap segment. The winner of the final segment wins $1 million, and any driver that wins all five segments earns an additional $1 million bonus.

The field for Saturday's race is limited to drivers who won races in 2012 and 2013, drivers who won the All-Star race in the past 10 years, Sprint Cup winners of the past 10 years, and the top two finishers in the evening's preliminary race, the Sprint Showdown. Fans may vote for the final participant following the end of the Sprint Showdown from those drivers who finished the Showdown with an operable automobile but did not otherwise qualify.

Kirk Kill & Jerry Ferentz

2013-05-17T14:03:33Z

Have you ever wondered what it would look like if Kirk Ferentz and Jerry Kill swapped hairstyles? Wonder no longer, thanks to LSUFreek.

This nightmare fuel is our gift to you for being patient during this week's technical difficulties. Good luck sleeping tonight.

The rest of his rivalry hairswaps are available at EDSBS.

Georgia Tech football has the strangest recruiting Photoshops of them all

2013-05-17T13:10:08Z

This year's college football offseason could go down as the Summer of Bad Photoshopping.

There is the Florida coaching staff, which is attempting to redefine the entire medium with a series of horrendous MS Paint-style photo edits complete with hashtags. Wyoming has joined in. Oregon State is in the mix.

Then there is Georgia Tech. Specifically, Yellow Jackets offensive graduate assistant Preston Pehrson, who joined Twitter on January 30, mostly to troll snowed-in Northerners:

Here there is some bad weather up North? That's to bad cause I'm about to go golfing! #migrationsouth
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) February 9, 2013

Weather in Atlanta is 57 degrees and the people in Georgia think its cold! What's it like up North? #themigration!
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) February 14, 2013

That hashtag eventually morphed into something called "The Migration," an attempt to lure recruits from the mid-Atlantic, upper Midwest and Northeast to Atlanta. Remember how Ed Orgeron told his Ole Miss staff that their planes did not fly north? Georgia Tech's apparently go out of the nation's most fertile recruiting ground to farm the snow-packed states.

When birds fly South they stick together! #TheMigration
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) February 15, 2013

If it had remained Pehrson reminding potential Georgia Tech recruits that Southern cities have warmer weather than Northern cities, it would have remained annoying but innocuous. That, of course, was not good enough for Pehrson. He inevitably turned to that hot new recruiting tactic: Photoshopping.

It began on February 22:

Bringing the North to the South! #TheMigration! twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) February 22, 2013

Pehrson then added another level by Instagramming his Photoshopping:

Bringing the North to the South! #TheMigration! twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) February 22, 2013

He then combined his two favorite pastimes: talking about weather and making fake shirts:

Wont need a sweatshirt in Atlanta much but this might work! #TheMigration twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) February 25, 2013

Pehrson changed it up, going to the old-school (as in, elementary school) arts and crafts bag:

Bringing the Northern stars to the Southern star! #TheMigration! twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) February 26, 2013

The calendar turned over to March, and Pehrson went into MEMEMODE:

It's coming! Get on or get out of the way! #TheMigration! twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 1, 2013

The migration must be very interesting! #TheMigration twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 1, 2013

#themigration twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 5, 2013

It will make you go crazy! #themigration twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 6, 2013

The Migration isn't playing around! Get with it or get out of the way! twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 8, 2013

Chuck? #themigration #GTFootball twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 16, 2013

Can't do it! #GTFootballHarlemShake #GTFootball #GTNation #themigration twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) April 18, 2013

Some of his memes were more successful than others. Here, an old woman tries to join the Georgia Tech football team:

Everyone wants to be part of the migration! #themigration twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 4, 2013

Here's a complete misuse of the Bear Grylls meme that compares joining Georgia Tech to drinking one's own urine.

Looks cold up North! #themigration twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 4, 2013

Eventually, Pehrson ran out of memes and veered into movies that are probably too old for most of his recruits to reference:

The look you get when you arnt with The Migration! #themigration twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 9, 2013

Who wrote a question mark after the migration!? #themigration #GTFootball twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 18, 2013

#themigration is coming fast at the NCAA! Get with it or get attacked! #GTFootball twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 20, 2013

Boom! #themigration twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 22, 2013

Gold Yellow Jacket! Produced by the migration #themigration twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 23, 2013

Better let them know now #themigration #GTFootball twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 25, 2013

Pretty simple! #themigration #GT #GTFootball twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 26, 2013

How many colleges have 3 movies filmed on campus in a year?#themigration #GT #GTFootball #anchormanpart2 twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 28, 2013

Come to Atlanta we have room! #themigration #Atlanta #GTFootball #GTNation #GT twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) April 4, 2013

Never refuse what Georgia Tech and The Migrations have to offer!#GTNation #GTFootball #YearoftheSwarm #themigration twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) April 6, 2013

Get a stick of the migration! #themigration #feartheswarm #GaTech #GTFootball twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) April 14, 2013

00migration! #themigration #GTFootball twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) April 15, 2013

Got to always give thanks! #themigration #GaTech #GTFootball #GTNation twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) April 27, 2013

We are going to take you! #livegold #GaTech #YearoftheSwarm #themigration twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) April 28, 2013

No one! #GaTech #GTFootball #themigration twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) April 29, 2013

We're the best at what we do. But what we do isn't very nice! #themigration twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) May 1, 2013

Just living the dream! #GTFootball #themigration #GT #GTNation twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) May 8, 2013

What did you think of #themigration when you were in #atl making the second movie? twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) May 9, 2013

Chip needs to know where he stands with #themigration twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) May 10, 2013

#themigration has made its first rule! #gtnation #gt twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) May 13, 2013

That doesn't even get the first-rule-of-Fight Club joke right. Also, it's kind of creepy.

If there is a school where recruits are up on a 12-year-old HBO television series, it's Georgia Tech:

#themigration going state by state getting great players to migrate to Georgia Tech to go wire to wire #GTFootball twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) April 20, 2013

I'm not sure what this is:

Up at 5 am "walking" with our players! #themigration twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 12, 2013

This is a train.

The migration started last night! Get on or get ran over by it! #themigration #GTFootball #GTFootballHarlemShake twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 13, 2013

This is a red wagon with an absurdly long caption. Note: This is not a bandwagon.

Building something! #themigration! twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 15, 2013

This is a shaggy dog covered in mud.

Dirty South! #themigration twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 14, 2013

This is WWE champion John Cena. It makes no sense.

You just can't! #themigration #GTFootball #GT twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 30, 2013

This is Stone Cold Steve Austin. Migration 3:16 says we're going to another Sun Bowl.

The Migration is looking to bring in guys that are stone cold! #themigration #GTFootball #GTNation #GT twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) April 7, 2013

The Rock says this. This is pretty dumb.

It's a weird smell but you better start to like it! #themigration #GTNation #GTFootball twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) April 13, 2013

This is Shaquille O'Neal. He does not know this picture is going to be used to promote mass migration:

@coachpehrson: Kazaam! Just couldn't get the sign fast enough! #canyoudigit #GTfootbal #GT #themigration twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) April 6, 2013

This is Mortal Kombat. It's older than the guys he is recruiting. They might be terrified.

New way #themigration will be recruiting! #GTFootball @recruitingajc @ajcgatech @gapanther twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) May 3, 2013

Eventually, Pehrson started going for live shots of people dressed up as other things holding up a handmade #TheMigration sign.

Georgia Tech blood drive April 2,3,4 12-5pm! They are with #themigration #GT #GTFootball twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 29, 2013

Even the Easter Bunny likes The Migration! #themigration #GTFootball #GT twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 31, 2013

Of course, there had to be some jokes about Georgia:

Come on @yo_randyjackson this is Georgia Tech! #GT #GTFootball #themigration twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) April 16, 2013

Don't let speed bumps slow you down. #themigration twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) May 14, 2013

It got weird when Pehrson entered a comic book phase:

Leprechaun? Haha the Migration doesn't do "little" green people! twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 17, 2013

Two for the holiday! #themigration #GTFootball twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 18, 2013

It started with one now we need others! #themigration! #GTFootball #GT twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 19, 2013

I mean really weird:

Enjoy the darkness! #themigration #GTFootball twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) March 21, 2013

I mean "Joker Phillips might want to lock his doors" weird:

#themigration isn't joking around! #GTFootball #GTNation @recruitingajc @ajcgatech twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) May 2, 2013

Who knew Superman was such a Girl Talk fan?

It's a bird! It's a plane! Naw it's #themigration! @coachingsearch @footballscoop @recruitingajc twitter.com/CoachPehrson/s…
— Coach Pehrson (@CoachPehrson) May 4, 2013

Recruiting is, and will remain, very strange.

HT Will Thompson.

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Mike Riley goes photoshopping

2013-05-17T01:21:59Z

Oregon State Beavers head coach Mike Riley has joined the Joker Phillips Bad Photoshop Recruiting Club, tweeting out this image Thursday night:

Some really exciting stuff coming in from the recruiting trail today, love finding the diamonds in the rough! twitter.com/Coach_Riley/st…
— Mike Riley (@Coach_Riley) May 17, 2013

Riley's bucktooth diamond ("The Jewel of the Williamette," as it were) is understated in comparison to the monstrosities recently sent out by Phillips and other Florida assistant coaches. While the simplicity of Riley's photoshopping is certainly appreciated, his failure to place a hashtag in the post is, frankly, inexcusable. Any of the following hashtags would have cemented the inherent excellence in Riley's tweet:

#Play4Rilez

#ComePlay4Rilez

#Play4TheOtherOSU

#Play4TheBeavers

#OSUDidntKnowYouBettaCallSomebody

#NoWeAreTheOtherOregonTeam

#YesTheOneInCorvallis

#IThinkCorvallisIsAGreatPlaceToLive

#NoIDidNotReplaceChipKelly

#IHaveBeenCoachingHereLongerThanChipKellyThankYouVeryMuch

#GoodDay

#ISAIDGOODDAYSIR

So far this offseason, Riley has managed just one verbal commitment, from quarterback Nick Mitchell. Those diamonds in the rough take time and pressure to form, of course.

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Giro d'Italia 2013 Stage 12: TV schedule, map, route and more

2013-05-16T12:14:06Z

After Wednesday's long ride up Sella Ciampigotto and an uphill climb to the finish, the riders in the 2013 Giro d'Italia face the short, flat, primarily downhill Stage 12 on Thursday. Riders start at Longarone and travel south through Pieve d'Alpago and Vidor before finishing in Treviso.

The stage runs just 134 km (83 miles) and, save for a couple of short climbs, slowly makes its way downhill toward the Adriatic coast. Thursday's leg is the first one-star stage since Stage 6, and serves as a brief respite before two brutal mountain stages on Saturday and Sunday. Expect high speeds and a sprint to the finish Thursday.

After Wednesday's Stage 11, Vincenzo Nibali maintained his 41-second advantage over Cadel Evans in the overall race. Sky teammates Rigoberto Uran Uran and Bradley Wiggins sit just over two minutes behind the leader, with Robert Gesink, Michele Scarponi, and Mauro Santambrogio all within three minutes.

Eurosport and ESPN Deportes will provide live coverage of Thursday's action. Program schedules and streaming video options are provided by Steephill.tv.

Byron Nelson Championship 2013 odds: Jason Day the Wednesday favorite

2013-05-16T00:49:10Z

Jason Day, the 25th-ranked player in the world, is the Wednesday night favorite to win this week's HP Byron Nelson Championship, being played at the TPC Four Seasons Resort in Irving, Texas. Bodog has installed Day as a 12/1 favorite to take the title. Day has yet to win on the PGA Tour this year, but did finish third at The Masters and Accenture World Match Play Championship. He finished ninth at last year's Byron Nelson, and won this event in 2010.

Matt Kuchar is second on the wagering form at 14/1. Kuchar has not won since last year's Players Championship, but does have two straight top-15 finishes at the Byron Nelson. Defending champion Jason Dufner is third on the odds list at 16/1. Keegan Bradley is at 18/1, despite missing two consecutive cuts; Bradley did win the 2011 Byron Nelson in a playoff against Ryan Palmer. Former Masters champ Charl Schwartzel and former British Open champ Louis Oosthuizen are joined at 20/1 by Marc Leishman, who has finished in the top 10 in the last three tournaments he has entered.

Play at the HP Byron Nelson Championship begins Thursday morning, with television coverage on Golf Channel beginning at 3 p.m. ET.

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Gone Baby Gone: Exeunt Pat Ingram, Pursued by a Bear

2013-05-14T15:43:00Z

In a move widely expected since mid-January, Iowa guard Patrick Ingram has asked for, and been granted, a release from his scholarship. He will transfer out of the program at the end of the school year:

University of Iowa head men's basketball coach Fran McCaffery announced today that guard Patrick Ingram (6-foot-2, 211 pounds) has asked for and has been granted his release from his scholarship to transfer to another school.

"Patrick is a tremendous person who was an integral part of our program last season," said McCaffery. "Patrick indicated that he wants to be closer to home and we have granted his request. We wish him all the best in his future endeavors."

Ingram, a three-star recruit out of Indianapolis, was the second of three point guards to commit to Fran McCaffery in 2012. He appeared in 20 games for Iowa as a freshman, averaging 5.8 minutes and scoring 0.9 points per game, but managed just 10 minutes of action after February 1. Ingram was widely lauded for his ability as a defensive stopper, but his offensive game needed more work than Mike Gesell or Anthony Clemmons, and with Roy Devyn Marble likely moving to point guard next year and the team desperately looking for more scoring, Ingram was going to have an extremely difficult time finding minutes in 2013-14. And with two point guards in his class and Fran hotly pursuing another for next season, things weren't likely to improve in the next two years.

Much like McCaffery, we wish Ingram well in his future endeavors.