Lincoln Riley took over the coaching reins at Oklahoma from Bob Stoops prior to last season and the Sooners didn’t miss a beat. They churned out another Big 12 title. They got great production at quarterback, with Baker Mayfield winning the program’s third Heisman of the 21st century (Jason White, 2003 & Sam Bradford, 2008). […]
TheSportsNotebook is going to be rolling out a new look here at some point in the month of July. We’re going to give you a home page that will hone in on the new content that goes up here each weekday morning and easy access to the wide range of digital content available for download. […]
The sleeping giant that is Nebraska football begins the Scott Frost Era this season and the Big Ten’s schedulemakers certainly didn’t do Frost any favors. He has go to on the road to his two key divisional rivals, Wisconsin and Iowa. For the crossover games…Nebraska drew Michigan, Ohio State and Michigan State, two of them […]
The 1980 Milwaukee Brewers came into the season as a team on the rise. They followed up a breakout year in 1978 with another strong year in 1979, in each case only the strength of their division keeping them out of the playoffs. By that standard, 1980 was a disappointment. The Brewers continued to play […]
Of all the major programs in college football, none is at a bigger crossroads this year than Florida State. The Seminoles parted ways with head coach Jimbo Fischer, who won three straight ACC titles from 2012-14, and the national championship in 2013. Fischer’s program also had considerable off-the-field issues and last season collapsed to 7-6. […]
The 1979 Milwaukee Brewers were coming off a breakout 93-win season in 1978, the first winning season in franchise history. In ‘79, the Brewers showed they were no fluke, stepping it up to 95 wins, even if the structure and format of MLB at that time continued to keep them out of the postseason. GREAT […]
On the night of February 3, 2002, Thomas Edward Patrick Brady was just a young quarterback that the nation expected to be overmatched in Super Bowl 36. The New England Patriots were a surprise story in winning the AFC Championship, but the St. Louis Rams of Kurt Warner and Marshall Faulk were The Greatest Show […]
The meat of today’s blog post is actually over at Noontime Sports, a New England-based site where I contributed an article on Boston College football. Make a visit over to Noontime, where Matt Noonan does a terrific job at covering the local scene here in New England. GREAT 1980s SPORTS MOMENTS Start reading today. In the […]
How much weight to give college football recruiting rankings is a subject that often vexes me. It starts with a moral concern—at the risk of being overly sanctimonious, I find the fawning hype given to the college choice of a 17 or 18-year-old kid, and the accompany emotions that pour out from adults over it, […]
The World Cup is the big story in sports right now. The countries I’d like to see win would be either Iceland (advice of a friend), South Korea (my brother is adopted from there), Russia (I want to hear the jokes about Trump inviting the Russian team to the White House), Poland (homeland of St. […]
Michigan faces a critical season in the fourth year of Jim Harbaugh’s tenure, with everyone from prospective recruits to informed opinion in Las Vegas turning against the Wolverines. Consider the following… GREAT 1980s SPORTS MOMENTS Start reading today. *After delivering top 5 recruiting classes in 2016 and 2017, Harbaugh’s 2018 haul only rated 21st in the […]
The Cleveland Indians have lurked below the headlines of the American League so far this season. The Tribe are on a pace to win 89 games in a league where four teams are on a pace to win 100-plus. But none of those teams (Yankees, Red Sox, Astros, Mariners) are in the AL Central, so […]
