Category: Sports
Processing Loss: Alabama Loses Nick Saban
Nick Saban’s gone, so fans are checking on that friend of a brother-in-law whose wife plays bridge with the athletic department HR assistant director
When Losing Means Winning a Better Draft Pick
Fans often want their team to lose to get a better pick, but teams don’t always comply. So why do teams tank way less often than fans want?
Money’s on the Nightstand, Jimbo Fisher
Texas A&M loved Jimbo Fisher to the tune of $95.6m dollars, and within two years loathed him so much they’ll give him $77.5m to just go away.
Alabama’s Baseball Disgrace
An Alabama baseball coach apparently sold out his team. In sports, that’s about as bad as it gets.
The Goddamn New York Jets
Being a Jets fan means waiting for the other shoe to drop and never being surprised when a boot comes down on your throat.
“Working-Class Wannabes” and the Language of Sports
Sports fans have a tendency to code-switch into the appropriate sports dialect when talking about the various sports people play or consume.
Fred McGriff and the Baseball Hall of Fame: The Crime Dog Stands Alone in Cooperstown
It is doubtful any of the Baseball Hall of Fame eligibles will be enshrined on Sunday July 23, save for Fred McGriff.
NFL Player Damar Hamlin In Critical Condition After In-game Collapse
The NFL’s Monday Night Football Game was halted after Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field.
Army Should Have Gone Bowling
There’s no reasons accommodations couldn’t be made to put Army Football in a bowl ahead of teams with losing records.
The Pride, the Fall, and the Backyard Brawl
“It’s just a game,” said some dude on Twitter when I mentioned I was still not quite over 13-9. He just didn’t understand the Backyard Brawl
Sports and The Power of Assumption
This post isn’t about what’s going to happen (as of right now no one knows) or what should happen, but rather the nature of assumptions
Wouldn’t Be Great If We Could Somehow Drag Gene Stallings Into This?
If college football is anything like it is assumed by so many, the Sicilians need to take note, because Omerta ain’t got nothing on this.
A Boymom’s Thoughts on Girls’ Athletics
The tragedy of this situation is not that women’s athletic options are being eroded by girls who insist on playing with the boys.
There is an AFL-NFC Championship Game today. This is its open thread.
Are you ready for some football?
The GOAT Retires: Tom Brady Calls It A Career
What makes Brady great isn’t that he makes great plays, but that he consistently makes good plays, throw after throw after throw, for twenty seasons.
It’s Time To Talk NFL Overtime
In light of the Bills-Chiefs NFL playoff game, an evaluation of improvements that can be made on the NFL overtime system.
We Should Unfix the College Football Postseason: A Rebuttal
The fear among my stamp of college football fans is that the tournament awards the game and not the campaign, and makes everything worse
Fixing The College Football Postseason
Just another fan’s opinion on how to weave College Football’s bowl tradition with a more robust playoff system.
NFL Legend John Madden Dead at 85
There is no overstating what John Madden meant to the NFL, not just the most popular sport in America but the number one TV show in the country and a cultural behemoth.