Headlines for September, 2007

BCS Déjà Vu

"Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it."Apparently members of the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee aren't followers of George Santayana's writings. This college football season is poised for more BCS controversy than fans have suffered through since the infamous 2003-04 season and, in an ironic turn of events, USC, LSU and Oklahoma again find themselves near the top [read more...]

Awarding MLB’s Best

If Major League Baseball held a red carpet event akin to the Emmys to dish out its annual awards, it'd be just as awful to watch. Only instead of Ryan Seacrest, they'd probably get Dane Cook to host - he'd wow us with his sharp wit while singing the virtues of his beloved Red Sox and telling us the importance [read more...]

The Student-Athlete vs. the Athlete-Student

Ohhhh yeah. There's nothing like starting a Friday off with a bang. Rutgers Athletic Director Bob Mulcahy called the following statements reported in a New York Times article blatantly racist:"If you were giving the scholarship to an intellectually brilliant kid who happens to play a sport, that's fine. But they give it to a functional illiterate who can't read a [read more...]

NHL Goes Camping

School's officially in session throughout the NHL, and the time for that age old battle between rookies and veterans is upon us. It can be an all out civil war, wherein the intense competition for the few available jobs can lead to brawls and injuries within the team.This is the only time of the year where every team has a [read more...]

The Preseason Poll Problem

Imagine for a moment that other sports used the same process to determine a champion that college football does. Before the season, every team would be ranked by sports writers; based solely on their perception, since nobody has played a game yet. Regardless of how well a team played, they would be unable to move up in the polls if [read more...]

Bootleggers: The Hollow Men of NASCAR

This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. - T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men I: Introduction Initially upon being assigned to review Neal Thompson's Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR, I hesitated. What do I, a Northern Midwest boy, care about NASCAR? Psssh, NASCAR. [read more...]

Michael Vick Town Hall Meeting: Only in ESPNland

Only in ESPNland can Neil Boortz, Terrence Moore, Selena Roberts, and a jock - Terrence Mathis - be gathered and touted as an authoritative panel for a "town hall" meeting in Atlanta where the main topic is Michael Vick.Boortz is a pro-Iraq War, pro-Patriot Act zealot. Moore is a black sports journalist who writes for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. His straight-off-the-plantation, [read more...]

Bob Love: A Cheesy, Clichéd Story that Works

I'll be back in the high life again All the doors I closed one time will open up again I'll be back in the high life again All the eyes that watched me once will smile and take me in - Steve Winwood, "Back in the High Life Again" John Grierson, referred to by many as the father of British and Canadian documentaries, said the [read more...]

Previewing Preps for Breeders’ Cup Classic

The Road to the 2007 Breeders' Cup Thoroughbred World Championships in Oceanport, NJ, goes through several towns; among them Florence, KY, and Elmont, NY.On Saturday, the 14th Kentucky Cup Day of Champions at Turfway Park features five stakes worth $825,000 that will likely impact an equal number of BC races next month at Monmouth Park. But the headliner is the $350,000 [read more...]

Big Ten Net(won’t)work

I'll admit it: I'm one of those suckers who spends between 2 and 21/2 hours every workday stuck in traffic. I live in the city and work in the suburbs. My friends who take a train/bus/bike on their short jaunts downtown think I'm nuts… which might not be far off, since one's sanity is very difficult to maintain when jammed [read more...]

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