Posted on May 28 2008, read 0 Comment
Quick pop quiz to keep your minds sharp through the Fido days...
1. Right now, Bobby Bowden is wondering:
A) Can I really get away with another season?
B) When's "Rawhide" coming on?
C
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Posted on May 21 2008, read 0 Comment
You don't walk around the Kansas athletic department holding your nose like you do at USC. Still, there are layers of problems with the recent Darrell Arthur grade-fixing bombshell. And guilty parties
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Posted on May 14 2008, read 0 Comment
According to an Associated Press report, this is what NCAA bigshot Myles Brand said the other night regarding the O.J. Mayo sleazefest: "Our enforcement division has new information."
We at Fan
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Posted on May 07 2008, read 0 Comment
"With great power comes great responsibility."
-- Spider-Man's Uncle Ben
"I understand."
-- Florida quarterback Tim Tebow
It sounds like something you might see during the last ha
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Posted on April 29 2008, read 2 Comment
A few predictions for the 2008 NFL season...
1. No rookie wide receiver will have a bigger year than Washington's Malcolm Kelly.
2. The Rams, Packers, Bills, Broncos, Bengals and Eagles wil
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Posted on April 21 2008, read 0 Comment
P.T. Barnum, who talked of suckers being born every minute, must have been a Nebraskan. He must have been familiar with Nebraska football, and the lengths the corn-fed crazies would go to watch their
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Posted on April 15 2008, read 0 Comment
College basketball's silly season, call it a coaches' hot stove league, is about over. Let's see how everything turned out...
Indiana: Tom Crean for Kelvin Sampson
You figured the hardwood g
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Posted on April 08 2008, read 2 Comment
T. Boone Pickens, Oklahoma State's president/athletic director/human board of trustees barely disguised as a slippery oil baron, is about to dip into his bottomless reserve and dangle a bazillion doll
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Posted on March 31 2008, read 0 Comment
I don't pretend to know enough about basketball to determine Bill Self's worth as a coach. I do know, however, enough to judge him as a man. And that's why I was one of the few people in America thril
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Posted on March 25 2008, read 0 Comment
Two rounds of the NCAA Tournament have taught this much:
** The fix is most definitely in
Remember the opening scene in "The Last Boy Scout" where the crazed football player guns down a woul
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Posted on March 18 2008, read 0 Comment
Don't want your bracket busted by Saturday morning? Be very careful with the following first round games:
Arizona (10) vs. West Virginia (7), Thursday in D.C.
It's a joke that the Cats are
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Posted on March 12 2008, read 0 Comment
So there's this great outcry over UCLA stealing recent wins from Stanford and Cal. Which is exactly what happened in two travesties of justice.
The Pac-10 should apologize to both the Cardinal
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Posted on March 05 2008, read 1 Comment
So I drop this week's issue of Sports Illustrated on the kitchen table like I always do... and five minutes later, the family Basset Hound is going berserk. Lizzie's on the tabletop, crouched, snarlin
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Posted on February 27 2008, read 0 Comment
It's so close I can almost taste it. The NCAA basketball tournament, the best thing in sports by a Kenyan jog. Mmmmm, delicious.
We'll get to breaking down this year's field, favorites, even f
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Posted on February 19 2008, read 3 Comment
I've learned the words to "Rocky Top." I've gone to the Salvation Army thrift store and bought one of Bruce Pearl's orange jackets. I've even stopped calling the Lady Vols' recent victory over Rutgers
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