How many more times will Michigan State football go to the well this year? Their Week 2 win over Oregon, where Duck quarterback Vernon Adams overthrew a wide-open receiver on a potential tying touchdown suddenly looks tame by comparison to the adventures of Big Ten play. There were the bizarre finishes against Michigan and Nebraska—a […]
For those of us who love the Boston Red Sox, the announcement that David Ortiz will retire following the 2016 season surely brought back the memories. No one in baseball has authored the same number of clutch hits as Big Papi over the last thirteen years and no player has been as consequential for the […]
It was the second that saved the New England Patriots undefeated season, and it came right before the two-minute warning. The Patriots led 24-23, but the New York Giants were on the doorstep, inside the ten-yard line. With 2:06 to play, Eli Manning lofted a pass to Odell Beckham in the left corner of the […]
Oklahoma came into Baylor and put up a 44-34 win where the Sooners had control of the game by the second quarter. While it was close all the way to the end, right up to Baker Mayfield’s clinching third-and-goal touchdown pass to Dimitri Flowers with less than five minutes to go, OU had control of […]
The focus in College Football Playoff discussions is who’s currently in the Top 4—or “who’s your four?”, to take the most overused question asked of TV analysts over the last two years. The question we should be asking is—who controls their destiny? I count six teams that realistically don’t need to worry about anything beyond […]
Notre Dame moved up to #4 in the College Football Playoff rankings, taking the place in the top four vacated by LSU after their loss to Alabama. The move was expected for the Irish, but do they really control their own destiny? Is it is simple as beat Wake Forest, Boston College and Stanford and […]
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 […]
