Sixty-eight teams, sixty-five games, one champion. Win or go home. Nothing can be simpler. Win or go home. No second chances, no excuses just win the game in front of you. Beginning March 19, March Madness may be the most exciting 18 days in organized sports. Once a school makes the NCAA Basketball Tournament, they…
Swimming with the Fishes
Jeff Ireland is on the clock. The Miami Dolphins general manager enters this offseason with a target on his back. It is sink or swim time for Ireland. Either make the moves to give Miami a winning season or he is sunk, he is likely negotiating for his career. It all started Tuesday at…
Hands Like Feet
‘Hands like feet.’ Just roles off the tongue doesn’t it. ‘Hands like feet.’ After four days and countless hours of NFL Network coverage, that is what I took away from the NFL scouting combine. Not Tavon Austin and Ryan Swope running 4.34 in the forty yard dash. Not even Manti Te’o crawling to a 4.82…
Keep It Competitive
Thinking back to the Super Bowl, one of the things I took away from it was the officiating. It was great. Jim Harbaugh might not agree, he may still be arguing that last call. I found it refreshing. The officials actually let the two teams play. That is all we really want, let the players…
Buyer Beware.
The Super Bowl signals the end of the NFL season. The end of months of hard work and struggle before crowning a champion in one final game: One winner, thirty-one losers. Let us be honest: the season never ends. Officially free agency begins the offseason on March 9th. However teams already are making moves and…
Super Bowl wishes and a squirrel under the tree.
The Super Bowl takes place this Sunday between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers. For many fans this is their Christmas. So in that spirit I thought I would ask for a few Super Bowl wishes. Wish #1: Usually when the game comes around I simply wish for a good game. That will…
And then there were two.
And then there were two. Four became two. One future hall of famer heads towards retirement, another continues on his fairy tale path into history. Two brothers make history facing each other seeking the Lombardi Trophy. Two franchises live on. Thirty others are sitting at home. For many a team making the playoffs seems like…
The Comeback vs. The Farewell
Two Franchises. Two Superbowl MVPs. Two future Hall of Famers. One dream. One singular goal. One victor. It took two overtimes, 18 penalties, 73 points. And it took the football worlds breath away. What began as the meeting of the Comeback vs. the Farewell, ended as one of the best games in recent history. Peyton…
Baseball’s Black Eye
Baseball waited. Baseball gave Alabama their day in the sun to celebrate another National Championship. Baseball waited. Wednesday was their chance to steal a little bit of the spotlight from football. Just a little bit of good news before the world turned back to the NFL playoffs. The BBWAA (Baseball Writers’ Association of America) had…
Here’s Johnny
Johnny Manziel had a great 2012. Beat #1 ranked Alabama? Check. Win the Heisman Trophy as a freshman? Check. For many twenty year olds that would be enough. For Johnny ‘Football’, he was just getting warmed up. Friday night he walked into Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas to lead Texas A&M against the Oklahoma Sooners…
4th Down and Forever 