The term “Black Friday,” when associated with the day after Thanksgiving, is a day when the Christmas shopping season begins in earnest. If you’re willing to get up early enough (or now, willing to stay up late enough) and brave the crowds, you can find some great deals and steals.College football fans will experience their... Continue Reading →

On Monday, when I first saw pictures of the field for the Northwestern-Illinois game this coming weekend at Wrigley Field, my first reaction was, "Really?"The end zone at the east end of the field, near the right field wall, wasn't even a full end zone. The bleachers cut off part of it, and the brick... Continue Reading →

So let me see if I've got some of this straight.In the last two weeks, Cam Newton has gone from potential Heisman frontrunner and a positive, happy redemption story in college football to an academic fraud at the University of Florida and (in conjunction with his father) pure chattel to be sold to the highest... Continue Reading →

With Colorado now being granted clearance to leave the Big 12 after this season to join Utah in the Pac-12 conference, there are two issues that will hopefully be resolved for the conference after a couple of meetings this month.One issue is how to split the conference into divisions.The other is to determine where to... Continue Reading →

Reading the Associated Press article about Reggie Bush returning his Heisman Trophy and how that's not an admission of guilt (Um, sure), I was struck by the closing graphs (emphasis mine):Bush said he also wants to start a program to help high school and college athletes deal with the pressures and temptations that come when... Continue Reading →

I don't know Scott Wolf, USC Trojans beat writer for the Los Angeles Daily News, personally.His bio reads: "Scott Wolf has covered USC for the Daily News since 1996. A USC graduate, he covered his first Trojan game in 1984 for the Daily Trojan. Scott is known as the "scourge of the Internet message boards,"... Continue Reading →

tra·di·tion\trə-ˈdi-shən\ noun 1 a : an inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action, or behavior (as a religious practice or a social custom) b : a belief or story or a body of beliefs or stories relating to the past that are commonly accepted as historical though not verifiable 2 : the handing down... Continue Reading →

I've had this blog for about a year now, but I don't think that I formally introduced myself and explained the love I have for college football. I wanted to take some time this week and tell a story about the importance of college football in my life.I went to the University of Missouri for... Continue Reading →

The question du semaine as the fallout from the 2010 NFL Draft settles on the landscape deals with the scandal of why Dez Bryant, the talented wide receiver formerly of the Oklahoma State Cowboys, fell as precipitously as he did from a top-10 talent to the Dallas Cowboys late in the first round.Bryant, who was... Continue Reading →

The good thing about writing a weekly column is that I have time to review the news of the week and reflect on it before commenting.The worst feeling, though, is when you’ve written what you think is a solid piece, and then news happens after you’ve hit “send.”Because the NCAA decided last week that college... Continue Reading →