If Ben Roethlisberger or Carl Edwards Looked Like Brittney Griner…

Brittany Griner grabs a rebound over Jordan Barncastle. Earlier his season I openly wondered two things about NCAA basketball: 1) Why the game officials were allowing so much physical play to occur and 2) Musing that, because of the referees refusal to put an end to the constant banging and bumping, it was a miracle there were no major fights in [read more...]

Kyle McAlarney: Just Another Case of Keeping the White Man Down; FBS Short: More ESPN Racial Shenanigans with Charlie Strong

Kyle McAlarney thinks he can ball with the big boys. He is a 5′11 point guard. His hops aren’t great but he can shoot the three. He plays defense adequately but not at a consistently high level. In college he was busted for marijuana and was removed from his team. Then his mother implied race had something had something to his [read more...]

NFL Week 9: Top Teams Exhibit “Escapability”

Indianapolis (8-0) 20, Houston (5-4) 17. Houston placekicker Chris Brown went wide left to keep the Texans from going to OT with the Colts.  The win sets up a big home game for Indy against New England next week. For Houston, Sunday meant another excruciating loss to the Colts. We’ll see if the Texans can bounce back because they must [read more...]

NFL Week 8 – Parity NFL Style: 7 Good Teams, 7 Bad Teams, 18 about.500; Replay Officials Keep Iowa In BCS Hunt

Indiana head coach Bill Lynch disputes a bad spot in the Hoosiers game against Iowa. First, kudos to ESPN for their Sunday Outside the Lines segment on Tom Cable. The Oakland Raiders head coach has an obvious history of abuse, toward women and now his assistant coach, Randy Hansen, who claims Cable broke his jaw. —————————— Next up, boo to ESPN for [read more...]

Edgerrin James the Father and Man Is “E-Raced” From Sports Headlines

There are no excuses to be made; it is too late. The failure of mainstream or Internet sports news outlet to so much as mention the Edgerrin James story reported August 29 by USA Today’s Nate Davis from an August 28 article by Michael Silver at Yahoo Sports, and mentioned at length here at Sports On My Mind on September 2 is [read more...]

The Sporting News Top 50 Coaches: Beginning a Revised Top 50

I‘m going to take a little break from the craziness of Plax, Mike Vick, Daniel Hood, and more. On ESPN’s Mike and Mike in the Morning show Thursday morning, Mike Greenberg nd Mike Golic are discussing the coaches listed on the Sporting News Top 50 head coaches. I’ll give up the list and then begin dissecting the coaches, sports by [read more...]

On Selena Roberts, A-Rod, Len Dykstra, and Sports Media

    Should this photo double as a "Wanted" poster? Thanks to the recent spate of books about performance-enhancing drugs and various athletes who have or may have used them mainstream sports writing is in trouble of becoming a national joke. And here’s why: a columnist for the New York Times remarked on a popular nightime talk show that he was not [read more...]

John Wall’s Very Special Visitor

While everyone else is either in the dark or straight fabricating stories - I won’t name names, cough cough Andrew Katz of Dime Magazine… damn did I just write that?… here is the real deal on prized high school recruit, John Wall and the latest on his recruiting experience…. …and the real deal on the moves of someone very special in [read more...]

*Update* on Coach Cal is Gone to Kentucky; Duke Proves its Collective Smarts; Thoughts on Blake and Taylor Griffin

Update #2: From what I was told this late Monday evening, the 6-year $40 mil numbers, turned out to be Cal’s initial asking price…. and the 8-year $35 mil number ESPN is reporting is low because it does not include incentives. On Sportscenter Monday night, ESPN college hoops analyst Jay Bilas said of Calipari, “I think he’ll knock the bottom out [read more...]

NCAA Hoops: Packaging Self-Hate through “Package Deals”

I was writing something  long and winding but needed to take a break because of an Outside the Lines (OTL) piece I watched Sunday morning… ———————————- Sunday OTL and its impressario, Bob Ley, gave us a report about an NCAA basketball practice called, “package deals.” A package deal is one where a high school - or younger - recruit is further wooed [read more...]

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