The most contentious issue in football isn’t Chiefs/Raiders, or Packers/Bears; it is the rift between the Baltimore Ravens and their star QB Lemar Jackson. Jackson has been one of the top QBs in the league, as a rusher, and more frequently recently, as a passer. With him, the offense ranks near the top of the […]

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Back when I was in college, three friends and I had a Strat-o-matic football league. Our league used Canadian Football League teams so that there were no arguments, even though all of the players were NFL players and defenses. One of my friends had Tony Dungy as his head coach. At the time, Dungy had […]

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The past couple of weeks have been tough ones for the University of Alabama. Usually, if one talks about sport at AL, you would be talking about football, but this season, the men’s basketball team has been the talk of the country, currently ranked number 3 in the country, a shoo-in for the NCAA Tournament, […]

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No person is all good or all bad. When a famous person dies, you see the tributes, all of the great things that person did, but often without the blemishes. That won’t be the case with Bobby Hull, who left us this morning. What can be said is that he did live life to the […]

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The biggest story in sports today is the heart attack suffered on the football field by Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin. In the first quarter, after a relatively routine football play on Cincinnati wide receiver Tre Higgins, Hamlin got up off the ground and just collapsed. Medical staff were there almost immediately, had to perform […]

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In the history of sport, most times, when government steps into the mechanism of sport, it blunders by heavy-handedly legislating something unawake of or unconcerned of the ramifications of their actions. Examples of the bad includes baseball being exempt from anti-trust law; to the positive is the case of Title IX which requires equality in […]

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We all have heard stories about or unfortunately endured horrible family gatherings caused by bellicose friends and/or relatives, grudges or new slights, intoxicants, and other things. They make us cringe thinking about them, or not looking forward to them. However, as a long time NFL fan/writer, I have often wanted to be a fly on […]

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