Really?You're still asking questions about why your team got left out of the NCAA Tournament, huh?You've even gone so far as to hire a statistician to crunch some numbers about last four in and last four out over the past decade to see what you can do to schedule better.I can admire that on some... Continue Reading →

There is a very nice story by ESPN Boston's Mike Reiss about New England Patriots defensive end Ty Warren forgoing a $250,000 bonus by skipping out on the voluntary offseason workout program so he can stay home in Bryan, Texas.He's staying home so that he can finish is degree from Texas A&M University in agriculture... Continue Reading →

Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan for providing the link to this Newsweek screed by Christopher Hitchens.In his rant, Hitchens derides international sports for (apparently) breeding conflict and contempt around the world. Hitchens also rails against how sports dumbs down contemporary society and political discourse:Our own political discourse, already emaciated enough, has been further degraded by... Continue Reading →

Another Winter Olympics.Another skating controversy.This year, it was recently unretired Yevgeny Plushenko complaining that American Evan Lysacek is not the true 2010 Olympic champion because Lysacek did not attempt the difficult "quad" jump during the free skate last night.Plushenko lost the gold medal to Lysacek by 1.31 points in the labyrinthine figure skating judging formula.Lysacek,... Continue Reading →

Every time I think that college football season is over, I find myself getting sucked back in by some major breaking news.At first, it was the news that Pete Carroll was leaving USC (some would say ahead of the NCAA posse) to take the job as head coach of the Seattle Seahawks.Okay, fine. It would... Continue Reading →

My heart ached for Texas last night.Not necessarily because I wanted them to win (I did, though. I had them and the over last night in my picks pool), or because I think Nick Saban is a bit of an insufferable human being (I do), but because of the pain that their two quarterbacks went... Continue Reading →

A new year has dawned.A new decade has arrived.And it's time for a new direction here at Pigskin Punditry.Ostensibly, I started this blog with the best of intentions and the hope that it would be a place where I would rant and rave about college football; the good, the bad and the in between.Well, previously,... Continue Reading →

So I am sitting in the ESPN Zone in Anaheim last weekend having breakfast and watching the Ohio State/Navy game. I looked up at the screen when Ohio State took the field and blanched a little when I looked at Terrelle Pryor’s eye black strips. Does that strip under his left eye say “Vick?” What?... Continue Reading →

As loyal readers should now by now, the Pigskin Pundit is not a big fan of preseason polls or rankings.I am a fan of making predictions, however.Except when I forget to include them in my opening column. Fortunately, that's why I also have the blog.(Although now that the blog feeds into Bleacher Report, I think... Continue Reading →

The decision over whether Pete Carroll should start true freshman Matt Barkley or redshirt sophomore Aaron Corp at quarterback was rendered yesterday when Carroll announced that Matt Barkley had won the competition.Opinions about whether this was the right move or not fall on both sides of the spectrum.However, I wanted to look at this from... Continue Reading →