Loading ...With the Super Bowl not until next weekend, it was a chance for other sports to shine. The NBA matched up its biggest rivals. The NHL held its midseason classic. Golf had its heavyweights (and no, that’s not a shot at Phil Mickelson) participating. And college basketball provided a big upset. I know, I know, [...]
We all know college boosters want a say in how a football program is run. But never has a donor publicly said if he didn’t get his way he wanted his money back…until now. Randy Edsall left UConn for Maryland. UConn in turn hired Paul Pasqualoni. Robert Burton then asked for his $3M in donations to be returned and for [...]
In a boxing title fight, the combatants take a few rounds to feel each other out. They poke and prod until they find an opening, then exploit it. In Sunday’s conference title games, the winning teams chose a different game plan…come out throwing haymakers until the opponent hits the canvas. Pittsburgh grounds down New York. The Steelers [...]
I’ve been a NY Jets fan all my life. They’ve only made it to the Super Bowl once, back in 1969, and I wasn’t born yet. But they are back in the AFC Championship Game, just like last year, so once again I’m starting to dream about the possibilities, even though I know I shouldn’t. [...]
Kobe, Lamar, Pau, Phil, move over. There’s a new sheriff in town and his name is Blake Griffin. That’s right, for the first time in forever, LA has become a Clippers town. OK, so that’s stretching it a bit lot. But there’s nobody more exciting to watch at Staples Center than the rookie who many thought [...]
Who wouldn’t want three Super Bowl rings? Who wouldn’t want to be the top seed? Who wouldn’t want home field advantage? As it turned out in the NFL, if you wore green, there was no need for envy. They walked the walk. The Jets talked a big game all week in the media. Then they [...]
It’s Rematch Weekend in the NFL playoffs, with all four games a re-run of a previous game (or games) between the teams this season. Instead of rehashing the past to predict the results, I decided to take a philosophical approach to arrive at my conclusions. Ravens at Steelers What is truth? Truth is Ben Roethlisberger [...]
I’m not the biggest fan of the NBA for a number of reasons. The games are generally boring until the final few minutes The referees are either incompetent, crooked or both The players are, in many cases, unlikeable Carmelo Anthony is rapidly catching up to LeBron James on the unlikeable list. It’s bad enough when [...]
If last night’s debacle between Auburn and Oregon wasn’t enough proof that the layoff between the end of the college football season and the BCS title game makes for bad football, there never will be. Two of the best teams in the country looked like two teams playing their season opener. The Ducks and Tigers were supposed [...]
When I was growing up, I loved the cartoon, Underdog, in which a dog in a cape saves people from crime. I didn’t see any dogs in capes over the weekend, but the underdogs did rise up in the NFL Wild Card matchups. And now the favorites have plenty of time to watch cartoons on [...]