There’s bad luck – and then there is what is going to happen to the college basketball programs committed to playing in the 2020 Battle for Atlantis. This promised to be a dream trip for coaches, players, and their families. There are few places on Earth more enjoyable during late November than Atlantis Paradise Island in the […]
Billy Donovan will be the next coach of the Chicago Bulls, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, and that’s good news for the Indiana Pacers. His elimination as a candidate means the Pacers will hire someone who promises something other than a redux of the Nate McMillan era. There was nothing wrong with McMillan, but if the […]
Like we need another reason to mock Kentuckians! Just when you thought human beings could not get dumber, Kentucky has thrown its giant stack of moron chips into the center of the table. To protect high school basketball players from COVID-19, the KHSAA has eliminated the jump ball at the beginning of games. I’m not kidding. […]
The NCAA’s enforcement staff is not the adversary of college basketball powers. It exists to protect coaches, programs, and schools from the greed that destroys fairness. But don’t tell that to the University of Louisville. As with the University of North Carolina, which cleverly dodged massive penalties in response to academic fraud charges, Louisville is answering […]
Whining about how the Big 10 made this suddenly savory college football sausage is unnecessary. Why allow bitterness over process disrupt our joy? Just a few minutes ago, conference bigwigs concluded their media zoom call in which they outlined several parameters for football’s return and explained their change of heart leading to the unanimous approval from presidents and chancellors. […]
Dan McNeil, formerly of 670 The Score in Chicago, stepped on one of the growing number of broadcasting’s third rails last night when he derisively tweeted about ESPN’s Maria Taylor attire. He was fired today. “NFL sideline reporter or a host for the AVN annual awards presentation?” was the text of the offending tweet, and it […]
Winning in the NFL is entirely dependent upon the quality of a quarterback. That’s so simple it defies belief. There has to be more to winning games than quarterback play, right? Defense has to count for something, doesn’t it? Coaches constantly talk about all three phases, and how it takes the best 53 players have to […]
When Covid-19 rolled into our lives early this year, I tweeted that the NFL would play because players had more serious worries than a virus. People were outraged, called me an idiot, and said I had no understanding of the virus. I’m not an epidemiologist – that’s true – but I understand people and their […]
Uh-oh. We know all the banal little sayings about the NFL. “Any given Sunday,” “It’s only one game,” and “It’s not how you start but how you finish that counts,” are repeated over and over throughout the season. Of course, they are as accurate as they are trite, especially after a game like the Colts 27-20 […]
For the Colts (-8) to win their first season opener since 2013, they need only to play better football than the team believed to be one of the worst two units in the NFL. Like a man running from a bear who only needs to outrun the slowest guy, the Colts don’t need to be […]