Lane Kiffin: There’s a Stench Emanating from Knoxville and It’s Not the Smell of Burning Mattresses

Tennessee AD Mike Hamilton can't understand why Lane Kiffin would leave the Vols - or so ESPN would have you believe. Why is everyone tripping about Lane Kiffin’s jump to USC? Over 1000 students at the University of Tennessee held candlelight vigils, burned mattresses and other sundry flammable items outside the Neyland-Thompson Sports Complex like it was a 1968 Vietnam-era campus protest [read more...]

Guns, Race, and Guns: Gilbert, Volunteers, and the Cost of Life in America

A Philadelphia fan holds up a sign for Gilbert Arenas. People in the United States – at least the U.S. – do not want to hear this. White people, Black people, people. But especially White and Black people. Black and White people. Even the juxtaposition – Black-White – is a contrivance, a sick trick of the mind. Racism exists today at its vile [read more...]

The Mike Leach Affair: Lessons in the Nature of Power

I bring you recognition and money and you bring me a pink slip... A wildfire has touched off in Lubbock, Texas. And the incendiary device is power. By now, football fans and most sports watchers know about Texas Tech wideout Adam James, his alleged concussion, and the firing of Mike Leach by Tech chancellor, Kent Hance, who just last year, resigned Leach [read more...]

NCAA Football Note: Dez Bryant Ruled Ineligible by NCAA

Ahhh yes, the NCAA proved once again that it is a wholly and shamelessly ineffective governing body by susepending Oklahoma State receiver Dez Bryant through October 7, 2010. Bryant’s transgression? Lying to NCAA investigators about visiting his mentor, Deion Sander’s home for dinner. In weighing decisions of this sort, the NCAA most often is said to weigh how much the university’s [read more...]

Griese Suspended (Resident Racist…); What “A Message from ESPN” Really Says about the Big Disney; Woody Paige-Jemele Hill

Here’s the latest from the AP: ESPN broadcaster Bob Griese has been suspended one week for a remark he made about NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya. ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz says Griese will not be working a game this week. Krulewitz says ESPN has spoken to Griese and “he understands the comment was inappropriate.” Then there’s this… Only someone within ESPN could say this. In [read more...]

Notes on the Weekend: Big-Time NCAA Rivalries; “Riggo” Goes Off; N.Y. vs. N.O. in the NFL

All the reports around the country mentioned Hall of Fame running back and former Washington Redskins great, John Riggins, You Tube video crushing of JIm Zorn. “Riggo,” as he was called, said Zorn better served coaching high school players, like Riggins’ son. However, what was missed is in the reports is that Riggins spent the first half of his video crushing [read more...]

The DSB is Not a DSB, But a DSB

Today’s DSB is actually a ——– DSB. I know, same acronym. Instead of The Daily Skip Bayless, today is The Daily Stephen Bardo. The question concerned reasons why there are so few Black head coaches in NCAA football (FBS). Stephen Bardo, a former Illinios hoops standout, blamed ————– “tribalism.” Bardo gave the old, ‘they (boosters) want to hire someone who looks [read more...]

Happy 30th ESPN: The WWL Lionizes Black Athletes (just not in the way the headline suggests)

Well people, after 30 years of ESPN we all should see it pretty plainly now. Thirty years ago Bill Rasmussen had an idea that one day his television network would be the sports fan’s first and final destination for sports; that his network would be the first and last word in sports. Look at it today. It is the television network for [read more...]

SOMM’s 50 Greatest Head Coaches

The G.O.A.T. Now It’s time for me to unveil my Top 50 Head Coaches. Here is where we left off Friday:  Hockey: 1. Scotty Bowman. 2. Toe Blake. 3. Al Arbour. 4. Glen Sather. 5. Dick Irvin. 6. Pat Quinn. 7. Herb Brooks. NCAA Hoops: 1. John Wooden. 2. Pat Summit. 3. Geno Auriemma. 4. John McLendon. 5. Bob Knight. 6. Mike Krzyzewski. [read more...]

The Top 50 Head Coaches Continued: The Greatest Hockey Bench Jockeys (and all the coaches, so far)

 Last but least - just kidding - hockey bench jockeys. Who are the best of the best of the men pacing incessantly in that tiny area behind those sweaty Canadians, Euro-dudes, Northeastern and Minnesotan Ameros with big curved sticks in their mitted-up hands, sitting awaiting their turn to once again hit the ice and do the bidding of the pacing [read more...]

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