My summer review of college football and the NFL is complete and I find myself standing on the threshold of picking Alabama-Ohio State to meet in the College Football Championship game and Green Bay-New England to square off in the Super Bowl. Could anything be more chalky? Could any predictions be less noteworthy? I don’t […]
If you drive to Soldier Field they make you pay a toll For cripes sake they only won one lousy Super Bowl Still we wouldn’t mind seeing Ditka run over by a truck ‘Cause the Bears…Still…Suck Those are lyrics to a polka song that makes its way around the radio where I live in Wisconsin, […]
The trade rumors are hot regarding Justin Verlander, with the Houston Astros as the primary suitor for the 34-year-old Detroit Tiger righthander. The consensus in baseball media is that Houston needs to acquire Verlander. I’m not so sure. This is how I see the pros and cons of getting the Tiger veteran. PROS *Houston does […]
Penn State football announced its return to the national elite last season, coming on strong after early losses to Pitt and Michigan. The Nittany Lions upset Ohio State, won the Big Ten Championship and played a wild Rose Bowl game against USC before falling 52-49. With good recruiting classes coming, there is joy in Happy […]
The 1990 Boston Celtics entered the season in territory the franchise hadn’t experienced since the late 1970s—rebuilding mode. Larry Bird missed almost the entire 1989 season due to the back problems that would ultimately end his career a few years later and the Celtics barely made the playoffs. The 1990 team saw the trajectory move […]
Expectations are soaring for USC football this season as they come off last year’s strong finish and Rose Bowl win. Sam Darnold is an early Heisman favorite and projected as the first overall pick in the NFL draft. This is a program that consistently recruits well. Oddsmakers have taken notice—based on preseason betting numbers, the […]
Brian Kelly enters his eighth season at Notre Dame and is feeling real pressure over his job for the first time. Kelly has produced two major bowl appearances in seven years and been the most successful Notre Dame coach since Lou Holtz left in 1996. But that only elevates Kelly above a few other coaches […]
The 1990 Kansas City Chiefs marked the second year under the leadership of head coach Marty Schottenheimer and one of the most talented staffs in NFL history. It marked a breakout year for the franchise and in ways both good and unfortunate, set the tone for the 1990s. Schottenheimer took over a dead franchise in […]
The 1990 Miami Hurricanes came into the season atop the college football world in every way. They won their third national championship in seven years in 1989, each one under a different coach and making Dennis Erickson 1-for-1 in winning titles in his first year. The Hurricanes were ranked #1 to begin the 1990 college […]
Georgia Tech football was in desolation when Bobby Ross arrived in 1987, with only two bowl appearances in the last seventeen years. Even after a seven-win season in 1989, there was little inkling that the 1990 Georgia Tech football was about to become one of college football’s great stories. The talent in the lineup didn’t […]
It happens in the last two months of most baseball seasons—a team surges from off the radar and makes a push for the playoffs. If you look in the American League at teams on the playoff fringe, the Baltimore Orioles are the most likely team to make that run. Let’s begin with the definition of […]
The 1980s had been good to the Iowa Hawkeyes. Hayden Fry took the program to the Rose Bowl in 1981 and 1985 and went to eight bowls overall in a nine-year stretch. But 1989 had been the outlier year, when the Hawkeyes struggled to a 5-6 finish. The program needed a comeback season and the […]
