So, as reported for awhile by numerous sources, the NCAA is finally considering a four team playoff for BCS division football. Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany has been hinting about it for weeks while putting the kibosh on rumors that the Rose Bowl officials were against any playoff. For the first time, all the conference […]

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Last night, your friend and humble narrator looked forward to two Game 7s in the NHL Playoffs and the first round of the NFL Draft. What could be better to sit on the couch in front of the HDTV and watch sports? But there was one thing that soured this scene a bit. The reaction […]

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Speaking of watching the NFL Draft last night, did anyone else think it was weird that every draftee came on the stage and then had a bear hug from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. I’m sure that Goodell has gotten to know many of these young men personally especially after the college season ended, and I’m […]

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I am not at all enamored of celebrities, but you can’t avoid the minutiae of their shallow lives, so I’m going to take a dip in the water (but not drink the Kool-Aid)… • It seems that the divorce of former NFL cornerback and current NFL Network analyst Deion “Prime Time” Sanders and his wife […]

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I was a fan of Ozzie Guillen. He managed the first Chicago World Series Champion in almost nine decades and he did so for my beloved White Sox. But every day during the season, Sox fans had to cringe at what would come out of Ozzie’s mouth on any given day. Most of the time […]

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If you had told me last week that the University of Arkansas would sever ties with Head Football Coach Bobby Petrino, I would have said that there was no f#$king way. Petrino’s team finished number 5 in the country at the end of last season. Petrino just completed his fourth season with the Razorbacks, who […]

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It is always amusing to me when a college basketball or football coach gets into trouble. When it involves players, it usually is covering up bad grades or money under the table. In that case, it’s the student athletes who are doing something they shouldn’t be doing; its hardly ever the coach’s fault for introducing […]

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