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...]

The Best Time of the Year

It's the best time of the year, March Madness. 65 teams, 64 games, six rounds, four regions, three weekends, and eventually, one champion. The only problem with it is that there's so much pressure to fill out that bracket and win your office/school pool (no gambling of course), it makes it tough to actually figure out where to start. Thankfully [read more...]

Regular Seasoning

A college football season just ended, with two different prevalent trains of thought regarding who should be crowned national champion. Some would make a case that LSU, the team that won the official BCS title, is the best team because their performance over the course of the season. The Tigers were 7-1 against teams in the Top 20 of the [read more...]

The (NC) Academy Awards of Football

Almost every major recreational genre has an end of the year awards show. The best TV shows win Emmy's, Grammy's go to the best in music, and the top theater performances are awarded Tony's. Even sports have one, if you count the ESPY's as a valid award show. But there's no doubt the most famous of all these honorary ceremonies [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...]

University of Georgia Highlights Another NCAA Black Eye

There have always been stories about athletes either having homework done for them, as at the University of Minnesota several years ago, or athletes taking easy classes like the stories of former University of Iowa and NFL running back Ronnie Harmon getting A's in pocket billiards in order to stay eligible.Well, as we thought that college recruiting was getting better [read more...]