Hope may spring eternal, but I got Dots right here and that is good enough. Screw Hope. It's go time.

• Go Huskies has a nice recap of the first practice highlighting a couple of impressive plays including Josh Shirley covering Austin Seferian-Jenkins on a deep route.
• Mason Kelly has his own coverage of yesterday's presser in a nice recap that should be free to access.
• There were several nice videos produced from yesterday's practice:
  Condotta has a nice recap and video of Sark
  Condotta also caught some of what Deontae Cooper had to say
  Divish got a nice clip from Keith Price's pow wow with the media
• Ted Miller also had his take on the Sark presser. All I can say is that Ted is a fine blogger, maybe.
• Condotta dug up an interesting link to a Philly site which highlighted how accomplished Chris Polk is in blocking in the backfield. Blocking ain't no thang for a War Daddy.
• CBS has updated their "Hot Seat" rankings for 2012. Every CFB coach is on it. The #1 hottest seat in the PAC 12 is Jeff Tedford. A few PAC 12 coaches are tied for second - and one of them is going to surprise you.