There are 10 teams that have (or at least should have) a reasonable case for the College Football Playoff. Here’s a concise look at all ten… GREAT 1980s SPORTS MOMENTS Start reading today. Alabama: Coming into Saturday night, there were only two knocks to possibly have against the Tide. They hadn’t beaten anyone and their defense—while […]
I’m a Red Sox fan, and my relationship with David Price has been troubled. I went crazy in a text message to a friend immediately upon his signing a $217 million contract prior to 2016. In July 2017, as I awoke from surgery, the one thing on my mind was not the medical results, but […]
Dave Roberts has been the manager for three seasons in Los Angeles and in all three, he’s found a way to overcome a patchwork staff and get his team to the postseason. All three years have been marked by October victories To put it in perspective, Los Angeles has won the NL West each of […]
The last time Syracuse football was ranked in the AP Top 25 at any point during the season was 2001, also the last time they finished the year in the rankings. After winning a 51-41 shootout with N.C. State on Saturday, the Orange broke the first streak and showed up at #22 this week. With […]
The Green Bay Packers have been mediocre this season, even with a healthy Aaron Rodgers back in the saddle. The Packers are 3-2-1. They rank in the middle of the NFL in both points scored and points allowed. The smart money in Las Vegas has lost confidence in them—Green Bay is available at healthy 25-1 […]
They’re two of baseball’s proud franchises. Their home cities have a long history of antagonism from the NBA. They’ve often circled each other in October, with the possibility of a championship battle lurking. But the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers have never actually met in the World Series until this year, at least […]
The Purdue Boilermakers pulled the signature upset of this past college football weekend—indeed of the entire season, when they dismantled Ohio State by a 49-20 count for a national prime-time audience. After a slow start, Purdue is now 4-3 and a wide range of possibilities—anything from the Rose Bowl to missing a bowl altogether is […]
N.C. State has played respectable football over the years. They’ve had head coaching names like Lou Holtz and Monte Kiffin, along with Dick Sheridan and Tom O’Brien. Quarterbacks like Philip Rivers and Russell Wilson have played here. The program has averaged two bowl bids every three years over the past four decades-plus. But there is […]
Prior to the start of the college football season, I wrote that Iowa faced a crossroads year with a number of young players and a schedule that left room for a wide range of possibilities. The question this summer was whether Iowa could at least maintain themselves around an eight-win level and set the tone […]
When Michigan lost its season opener at Notre Dame 24-17, the rumblings that had been going on in Ann Arbor all summer sharply increased. When was Jim Harbaugh, a head coach paid like Nick Saban and Urban Meyer, going to start winning on a level commensurate with his paycheck? Would Harbaugh ever win the games […]
The college football season saw its first significant reshuffle of the deck on Saturday, as the favorites fell. The most significant loss was Georgia getting pounded at LSU, creating the first crack in our Playoff projections. Other games up and down the card, most notably West Virginia losing decisively to Iowa State, created more fluidity […]
They’re the best two teams in baseball. You have the American League’s most productive offense in Boston and its stingiest pitching staff in Houston. Each franchise has a World Series title within the last five years that was won for a city dealing with tragedy (The Boston Marathon Bombing in 2013 and Hurricane Harvey in […]
