It was called "The Best Story of Super Bowl Week!" by the New York Giants Pat Hanlon.It's been decried by others.Yep. It must be Rick Reilly's music.This week, Reilly wrote about Colin Kaepernick's family. Well, not exactly. Mr. Reilly wrote about Colin Kaepernick and the fact that he doesn't want to meet his birth mother.... Continue Reading →
NCAA Needs To Be Reformed From The Bottom Up And From The Top Down
"I have been vocal in the past regarding the need for integrity by NCAA member schools, athletics administrators, coaches and student-athletes," Emmert said. "That same commitment to integrity applies to all of us in the NCAA national office.(From an ESPN.com story yesterday.)One of the things that Dr. Mark Emmert, the current president of the NCAA,... Continue Reading →
Appreciate the Beauty of Gray
I’m going to start this piece off right now by doing something I normally don’t like to do. I’m going to make a blanket statement about people. When it comes to sports, people prefer things to be black and white.(I’m not talking about race, because based on the vitriol that Bomani Jones and Michael Silver... Continue Reading →
The Manti Te’o Hoax Story Is Not Cut-and-Dried
(From Dictionary.com)hoaxʊks/ Show S[hohks] Show IPA noun 1. something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax. verb (used with object) 2. to deceive by a hoax; hoodwink. Origin: 1790–1800; perhaps contraction of hocus Synonyms 1. deception, fraud, fake, imposture, humbug. "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has... Continue Reading →
Are Coaches Acting More Assholish On Purpose?
I was stunned when I heard that Tommy Tuberville was leaving Texas Tech for the Cincinnati job, especially given the destabilization and demolition of the Big East conference. Comparatively speaking, the Big 12 was a stable place.Of course, Tuberville at Texas Tech never really made sense, and seeing as how the season ended there for... Continue Reading →
To Herbstreit, ESPN and the other Anti-NIU whiners…
In the preseason polls, Northern Illinois received one vote in the AP Top 25, and two votes in the USA Today Coaches poll, ranked behind such illustrious teams as South Florida (3-9), Virginia (4-8), Missouri (5-7), Southern Mississippi (0-12!), Utah (5-7), Arkansas (4-8) and Auburn (3-9).After losing to Iowa in Week One, Northern Illinois did... Continue Reading →
Robert Griffin III, Rob Parker, and ESPN Television’s Slow Downward Spiral
This is not the way I planned on reawakening this blog, but I can think of no other good venue for organizing my thoughts about the absolute load of shit I saw and heard on Twitter today.Good grief, I can already hear you saying. Not another one of those "You can't believe what you heard some... Continue Reading →
Open A New Window, Open A New Door
Dormancy has been the norm around here of late, through much fault of my own.I am sad to say that I do not have the time to dedicate to this space like I wanted to. The vision in my head just does not match up to the reality of my current situation, and there were... Continue Reading →
Joe Paterno: 1926-2012
The end will come for all of us one day. The nature of the circle of life is that we all will, sadly, pass away. Sometimes sooner than we ever expect.It seems weird to say that an 85 year old has passed away too soon, and yet for some reason I can't seem to help... Continue Reading →
Sandusky Situation Could Lead to Paterno’s Downfall
I lived in State College, Pennsylvania for three years in the early to mid 2000s. It's hard to live near and work for Penn State without developing some level of affection for the communty, and for the Nittany Lions football team.I lived about three miles or so from the stadium and drove past it on... Continue Reading →
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