Feeding the Football Fix

My calendar tells me it's mid-July, the dog days of summer. In the sports world, that means baseball's trade deadline is right around the corner, NFL training camps will be popping up any day now, and the Olympics begin in only a few weeks. We just finished watching a historic NBA Finals, a classic Wimbledon final, and a never-ending MLB [read more...]

World Gone Mad

It's a baaaad day for white athletes everywhere. Matt Jones (mug shot, right), Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver - busted for coke and pot. Dude was caught chopping yay-yo with a credit card, had a bag of yay on him and a bag of chronic. Hmmm, snort some yay to get up, puff puff a J to take the edge off, [read more...]

The Black Quarterback: Running from the Devil - part 3

This is 2007. This season we have witnessed the fall of the classic, from the pocket black quarterback, Leftwich, in favor of his "more mobile" backup, David Garrard. Leftwich was said by his head coach Jack Del Rio, to have "regressed" as a quarterback. It is interesting - and no accident - that Leftwich, viewed as heroic throughout his college [read more...]

The Worlds Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party: Pt. 1

Say what you will about baseball being known as the national pastime, but it's a no-brainer that football has taken over as the top face on the American sporting totem pole. The NFL may be king across this great land of ours, but south of the Mason-Dixon line, an old-fashioned tailgate party on a college football Saturday is just as [read more...]

Hart Surgery: Insomnia

I have no will power. It is bad enough I have trouble sleeping, but the fact I cannot keep myself from watching late night television is no help either. If I didn't have a TV in my room, I might sleep an average of an hour or two more per night. Every night I find myself glued to the only [read more...]

Is an NCAA Playoff Really the Answer?

The college football Bowl Championship Series got a minor facelift this week. A fifth game will be thrown into the mix, increasing the number of participants from eight to 10 and supposedly giving smaller schools outside the major conferences a chance to make an appearance. This still brings us nowhere near a playoff system, which most fans of the game [read more...]