St. John’s basketball was on a good run coming into the 1979 season. In an era when making the NCAA Tournament was considerably more difficult than it is today, Lou Carnesecca’s program had earned three consecutive NCAA bids. In ’79, after playing mediocre basketball for much of the year, they made it four straight NCAA […]
Alabama football was in a funk as the 2007 season began. Since the proud program last won the national championship in 1992, the Crimson Tide had made just one major bowl game, spent time on probation, and had only three Top 10 finishes. While one of those had come as recently as 2005, it was […]
Georgia football was on a strong run of success under head coach Mark Richt coming into the 2007 season. Richt came to Athens in 2001 and had since won two SEC titles and finished in the national top 10 four times. The ’07 Bulldogs, after an uneven start, built on that success. THE FUTRE PROS […]
The New York Yankees entered the 1995 season poised to begin a renaissance era. The proud franchise had not reached the postseason since 1981 and gone through particularly lean years from 1989-92. Some improvement in 1993 led to a 1994 breakout when they had the best record in the American League by August 1994…and then […]
No team had ever won college football’s national championship with two losses. The 2007 LSU football team became the first, surviving a chaotic and crazy season and a pair of triple-overtime losses to become the first, thanks to some come-from-behind mojo and dominance of the running game on both sides of the ball.
1986 marked the second year of Joey Meyer’s tenure at DePaul, since taking over from his father, the legendary Ray. After seven years running with the national elite at the end of Ray’s career, Joey’s first year of 1985 was a step back, as they scraped into the NCAA Tournament and lost in the first […]
It was a new era for DePaul basketball in 1985. The legendary Ray Meyer had stepped down after over four decades on the sidelines and handed the reins to his son Joey. Meyer the Younger was taking over a program that was on a high. DePaul had run with the national elite for the past […]
Ray Meyer was an iconic figure in college basketball. He had been on the sidelines at DePaul since 1942 and guided the program through peaks, valleys, and a changing landscape for over four decades. Some of his best teams came at the end of his career, from the Final Four trip of 1979 to a […]
The Houston Astros were starting to come into their own as they came into 1995. The franchise was coming off two consecutive winning seasons and were firmly in the hunt for the playoffs in 1994 when the August strike cancelled the balance of the season. Baseball resumed in 1995 and so did the Astros, as […]
The Colorado Rockies were in just their third season of existence in 1995. In a season that was traumatic for Major League Baseball as a whole—one that started late, due to the lingering effects of the 1994 strike that canceled the season midstream—Colorado was a heartening story. The youthful Rockies franchise made the playoffs under […]
After running with the elites of college basketball for five straight years, DePaul stepped back and retooled in 1983. A program that had reached the Final Four in 1979, and been a #1 seed in 1980, 1981 and 1982 (albeit subject to serious March disappointment), failed to make the NCAA Tournament in ’83, as veteran […]
The Los Angeles Dodgers came into 1995 in a postseason drought. They hadn’t won the NL West title since their epic World Series championship run of 1988. Their last serious run at it came in 1991. In 1994, the Dodgers looked ready to take advantage of the division being realigned into its current format (except […]
