NFL Analysis: Indianapolis Hopes Magic Ride Continues In 2013
Would it be a bad pun to say the Indianapolis Colts had a lot of Luck in the 2012 NFL season? Yeah, it most certainly would, but it would also be accurate.
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Daily Sports: NL Central Focus For Thursday
The NL Central race is the daily sports focus on the MLB Network today, starting with matinee action in Cincinnati and concluding with a big prime-time game in St. Louis.
College Football Coverage: American Athletic Conference Preview
It’s a big year of transition for the conference we used to know as the Big East. It’s now re-named the American Athletic Conference, a consequence of the split that took place between the football schools and the basketball-only members. Since the latter created and built the league’s brand, they will carry its name into the new era. As for football…we might have a fresh name and some fresh faces, but it will still be a year where an old era passes away.
College Football Coverage: Navy & Army
There are six independents in the world of college football. Two of them (Idaho and New Mexico State) aren’t worth discussing until they prove otherwise on the field. Two more are very worth discussing, and Notre Dame and BYU have each gotten their own separate pieces in TheSportsNotebook’s college football coverage. And right in the middle are the service academies, Navy & Army, whom we look in on here…
College Football Coverage: The State Of BYU’s Independence
The bid of BYU football to go independent and truly become the Mormon equivalent of Notre Dame football is off to a halfway decent start. The Cougars have made bowl games each of the two seasons they’ve been on their own, and last year’s 7-5 year capped off with a very nice 23-6 bowl win over a hot San Diego State team playing on its home field. This year, though, could be a more trying time, as our college football coverage focuses in on Bronco Mendenhall’s team…
College Football Coverage: Four C-USA Arrivals In The Old Big East
Four schools packed up from Conference USA and emigrated to the old Big East, now re-named the American Athletic Conference. While none of the four look ready to challenge Louisville for conference honors, all four could have some fun in their new home this year, as TheSportsNotebook’s college football coverage looks at the quartet of emigrant programs…
College Football Coverage: The Last Hurrah Of The Old Big East
This is the last hurrah for the old Big East football conference. Actually it’s the postscript to the last hurrah, since the conference has been re-named the American Athletic Conference, following the departure of the basketball-only schools to rebuild the Big East brand on the hardwood.
But this coming college football season is still a last hurrah in a different sense—even as four new members arrive, this is thThis e last season in the league for Louisville and Rutgers, and those two teams—particularly Louisville—along with Cincinnati, are clearly the tone-setters in the race for what’s still an automatic BCS bowl berth in 2013.
College Football Coverage: Can Notre Dame Shake Down More Thunder?
Brian Kelly finally woke up the echoes in South Bend, as Notre Dame football became relevant on the national stage for the first time since the departure of Lou Holtz following the 1996 season. The Irish went 12-0 in the regular season, won a big statement game at Oklahoma and reached the BCS National Championship Game.
Daily Sports: Baltimore Badly Needs A Win Tonight
At the start of this week, TheSportsNotebook featured the Baltimore Orioles and noted that they were starting an enormous 15-game stretch against good teams that could make or break their playoff chances. Two close losses at home to the Tampa Bay Rays are how that stretch has started out, so the stakes are high tonight in Camden Yards. And the cameras of ESPN2 are on hand, as Buck Showalter hands the ball to rotation ace Wei-Yin Chen to try and stop the bleeding in a 7 PM ET game.
College Football Coverage: ACC Football Preview
It was back in 2005 that ACC football split into divisions and created its championship game. Remember that when those divisional splits were created, the league did so with the express purpose of setting up Miami and Florida State to play in the title game. Hence, they split the two powers apart, even though it didn’t match up geographically. The history hasn’t played out quite like anyone expected.
College Football Coverage: Is It Miami’s Year In The ACC Coastal?
Then there’s three solid contenders in Georgia Tech, North Carolina and Virginia Tech, any one of whom can make it to Charlotte for the championship game on December 7. After that we move to the bottom three of Pitt, Duke and Virginia. All of these teams can make a bowl game, and frankly could even make a run at the top, but they would be a significant dark horse shot to pull off the latter.
College Football Coverage: Clemson & Florida State Lead Up ACC Atlantic
The ACC Atlantic Division is divided into two very distinct tiers of teams. Clemson and Florida State are the heavyweights, and it would be a shock if the division winner were anyone else. The Tigers and Seminoles are also good enough to be the co-favorites for the conference overall, and to be the conversation as […]