I had initially intended to write a post about the performance of Kirk Cousins at the halfway point of his first year as the undisputed starting quarterback of the Washington Redskins. But the more research I did, the more it became clear just how indispensable DeSean Jackson is to the Redskins’ attack, and why the […]
The Big Ten hierarchy is guilty of two acts of stupidity. One has seriously damaged the regular season. The other threatens to cheapen its championship game. I know it’s hard to believe that a conference leadership which thought inviting Rutgers was a good idea would ever show bad judgment, but it’s happened. Let’s start with […]
The Big 12 season begins for real in November when all the top teams play each other. Last night’s Baylor-Kansas State game didn’t meet that category—K-State came into the game at 3-4, but it represented an appetizer on the Baylor schedule. It was a nice road test before the Bears have to face Oklahoma, Oklahoma […]
The Kansas City Royals are young, aggressive and they come from behind. All those virtues were captured by the defining play of Sunday night’s Game 5 in the World Series when Eric Hosmer scored the tying run in the ninth inning on a play that almost no one else in baseball would have tried. Hosmer […]
The past and present of Triple Crown horse racing were on display at the Breeders Cup, the 14-race extravaganza that saw American Pharaoh give us one last memory before he heads into the comfortable life of retirement. After losing the Travers Stakes at Saratoga this summer, I wondered if American Pharaoh would fade. That seemed […]
Notre Dame squashed Temple’s Cinderella hopes of making the College Football Playoff as an undefeated team in last night’s exciting 24-20 win in Philadelphia. The Irish also put a dent in the Owls’ hopes of making it into one of the New Year’s Six bowl games—the six premium games (including the two Playoff semis) that […]
For the fourth time in four World Series games, a New York Mets starter was gone before the seventh inning. And for the third time in those games, the Kansas City Royals made the Mets pay, with a three-run rally in the eighth to win 5-3 and move to the brink of their first title […]
One of the great times of the sports calendar is here and it’s the month of October. It’s going to an active time on the blog here at TheSportsNotebook. The heart of Octoberfest is the baseball playoffs & World Series. In October, the college football season has taken shape and conference play heats up, while […]
Noah Syndergaard didn’t open Game 3 of the World Series with his best stuff. The Mets’ power righthander was touched for six hits and three runs in the first two innings. His team, already staring at a 2-0 deficit in games, was also looking at a 3-2 deficit on the scoreboard. Then Syndergaard made the […]
This hasn’t been the easiest of seasons for Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck, and it reached its nadir on Sunday. Indianapolis lost at home to New Orleans 27-21 and Luck was booed by his own fans. This follows a steady stream of negative stories regarding his early season play. The phenomena of Luck-Mania—an insane premature […]
The greatest spectacle in horse racing isn’t the Triple Crown races. It’s the Breeders Cup. Over Friday & Saturday there will be 14 races featuring the best horses, from both here and abroad, at Keeneland Racetrack in Kentucky. And the biggest story of them all is American Pharoah’s last run for glory. The Breeders Cup […]
Johnny Cueto has been the ultimate boom-or-bust pitcher this postseason, and because he was in “boom” mode last night, the Kansas City Royals rolled to a 7-1 win over the New York Mets and took complete command of the World Series with a 2-0 lead in games. Consider Cueto’s last three starts. He threw a […]
