It was 10:30 a.m. MST December 7, 2014, a day that will live in infamy for those of us that see College Football as something akin to a religion, the last of the major sports that still endeavors to crown… Read More ›
ESPN
So, What Does ESPN Stand For?
An amiable session in which the Big Ten and ESPN cleaned up “housekeeping matters” — schedules and announcers — took a nasty turn at the one-hour mark. That’s when talk turned to a contract extension, a negotiating session that went… Read More ›
Texas Chainsaw Massacre—When will the ESPN Longhorns go Independent?
In the second part of Quentin Tarantino’s revenge opus, we see a flashback of the pregnant Bride (Uma Thurman) rehearsing for her wedding. Her former boss Bill (David Carradine) — who trained the Bride to be one of his killers… Read More ›
The Dangers of the Five-Star Recruit in the Age of Entitlement
(6/8/2011) In January of 2003, a little known and even less recruited gangly chemistry nerd from Sterling Heights Michigan helped capture the hearts and minds of a “Nation” when he helped The Ohio State Buckeyes end a 34 year drought… Read More ›
How Football has become America’s past time
Type in “America’s Past time” at the web’s famous free dictionary, Wikipedia, and you get a historical analysis of the game that was said to be invented by a civil war general in the nineteenth century. And while this may… Read More ›
The BCS Poll: Should The Ohio State Buckeyes Be the number One Team in the Country?
Ahead of the release of the first BCS poll (is it “Broken Cash Scheme” or “Bowl Conspiracy Series”–I digress), I decided to tackle the issue of polling, the single most controversial system for determining a champion in all of sports…. Read More ›
The BCS Monopoly and How BYU’s Decision to Go Independent will further polarize college football
In a day when the Big Ten announced that Michigan and Ohio State would indeed be in different divisions, yet again making another of my expansion predictions ring true, the Brigham Young Cougars humbled yours truly by announcing their intention… Read More ›
The BCS Monopoly and How BYU’s New Holy War Will Reshape College Football
In the college football game of Network Monopoly, your program is only as safe as the network dollars it commands. Just when we thought the music had stopped and everyone had grabbed a chair, we get this news: the Mountain… Read More ›
Texas Hold ’em: What will the Longhorns do?
While Bevo ropes himself a Sooner here, will some conference rope in the Longhorns? Around the poker table, the faces are familiar: Jim Delaney, commissioner of the Big 10 (reigning poker champion who could be on the verge of losing… Read More ›
Notre Dame and NBC: A Marriage Made in Heaven (If the Year Was 1953)
In thinking about the recent success of the Big 10 Network, generating already almost a quarter of a billion dollars in revenue in only its third year, I got to thinking about the future of television and what this means… Read More ›
Notre Dame. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same.
March 19, 2010. A liberal friend of mine once suggested that the difference between liberals and conservatives is that “conservatives stubbornly refuse to change with the times, clinging to ideas that once made sense a century ago.” While this is… Read More ›
