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 →
Northwestern/Illinois Game Takes A Turn
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 →
Unpacking The Current World of Cameron Newton
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 →
Pac-12 needs a conference title game site. It’s right under their nose
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 →
Questioning Paying FBS Football Players
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 →
Poll Position: It’s Too Early To Matter
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 →
2010 Sunday Brunch: Week Two
Let's pass out some food and drinks and look at some performances from yesterday's action.Raise a glass of champagne or send a mimosa to: Mickey Matthews, James Madison University and Ed Meierkort, University of South Dakota: For the second week in a row, we cheer for Division 1-FCS teams knocking off BCS opponents.The Coyotes of... Continue Reading →
Friday’s Quick Slant: Picking some big Saturday Games
Four games of interest nationally on Saturday, so let's take a quick peek and offer some uninformed prognostications:Michigan @ Notre Dame: Yeah, yeah, Brian Kelly's trying to wake up the echoes and Rich Rodriguez might have found a quarterback. The Irish fought off a rally by Purdue and the Wolverines christened the newly expanded Big... Continue Reading →
Wednesday Quick Slant: Reggie Bush’s Heisman
Back in May I wrote about the (at the time) seemingly endless wait for the decision of the NCAA regarding the Reggie Bush investigation. A decision hadn't been rendered, but I thought that it would be a lot of waiting for a slap on the wrist.Well, it turned out to not be a slap on... Continue Reading →
The Boise State Conundrum
I am willing to admit when I am wrong.I was wrong about last night on a variety of levels. I was wrong about it being a low scoring game, and I was wrong about Bosie State losing.It's not because I don't like Boise State; I actually root for the Broncos because I think it might... Continue Reading →
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