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Mascot Monday: Chief Illiniwek

Mascot Monday is back and we are still counting down mascots we’ve yet to cover that are in Phil Steele’s Top 50 preseason poll for 2011.  We’re in the middle of media days for the college football and the pro guys finally set down their swords and are getting ready for another season as well.  This week I will skip over that hype and go straight to #39 and Illinois’ Chief Illiniwek.  I believe that this is the first time I will cover a mascot that is actually no longer spreading cheer on the sidelines.  Lot’s of controversy behind this one folks, let’s find out what happened

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Mascot Monday: The Mountaineer

Another week of Mascot Monday and I’m getting into the groove of going over mascots from schools that have been in the news recently.  It’s admittedly hard to come up with wacky mascots when you’ve been eyeballing costumed characters for as long as I have.  So this week’s big news is the buyout of West Viriginia’s Bill Stewart so coach in waiting Dana Holgorsen can take over.  If you remember, Holgorsen was in trouble for some casino incident but it was later found out that Stewart or a Stewart supporter started a smear campaign against him.  This week we’ll let the story of The Mountaineer teach us something about competitive respect.

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Mascot Monday: Big Blue

This week’s Crib Sheet will not leave you blue, in fact it should leave you pretty happy.  If you get anything out of this week’s mascot, it’s that it may take almost 100 years for a school to get something right.  Utah State’s Big Blue went through many a transformations before landing on the current costumed character we see bouncing down the sidelines today.  We’ll learn about how to treat a live animal, and your personal property, along the way.  So cheer up, folks, Big Blue’s coming and he’s coming to turn your blues into a warm, happy yellow.

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