1995 should hold a special place in the memory of California Angels fans. A franchise that hadn’t enjoyed a winning season since 1989 turned itself around and became a contender. But a dramatic late-season collapse cost them a playoff spot and instead put 1995 into a regrettable pantheon of Angels’ lore that included postseason heartbreak […]
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 […]