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The Lucky Thirteen

Thirteen people have been given the ultimate power over the college football post season. They are thirteen of the most prestigious and influential people in sports and in the nation today. They have been charged with the awesome responsibility of picking out the top four college football teams in America to participate in the very first College Football Playoffs. The …

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by admin on August 8th, 2014 Leave a comment »

The NBA, FIBA & The NCAA

When Paul George went down last week with a broken leg, people began discussing if perhaps his participation on Team USA was actually a wise choice and whether other NBA stars should be risking their careers, and their livelihoods, to participate in games that bring them basically nothing but trophies and T-Shirts. Now the whole face of the 2014-2015 professional …

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by admin on August 7th, 2014 Leave a comment »

NFL Draft Hype

The annual NFL Draft has gotten out of hand. Yes, it is the off season and everyone is jonesin’ for football, but the draft ceremony has turned into a Hollywood production of spectacular proportions. Everyone likes a big show but just think about what all that hype might be doing to the young athletes being ground up in the draft …

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by admin on August 6th, 2014 Leave a comment »

What Does ‘Autonomy’ Mean To The Power Five?

There is a certain hierarchy in the Colleges and Universities in America. Everyone knows it. We all know who the elite members are. We hear about them all the time. George Orwell wrote in Animal Farm, “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” Of course he was talking about the birth of corruption in the newly …

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by admin on August 5th, 2014 Leave a comment »

Vin Scully Is Coming Back

He was elected to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame 32 years ago and he’s still going strong. Vin Scully is generally considered to be the greatest announcer in the history of professional baseball in America.  He certainly holds the record for longevity. Vin Scully has got to be the greatest baseball fan in the history of the game, …

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by admin on August 4th, 2014 Leave a comment »

Living Legends Inducted Into MLB Hall Of Fame

It was an emotional afternoon at Cooperstown, New York on Sunday as seven legendary Major League Baseball players were inducted to the MLB Hall of Fame.  It was the largest class of living inductees since 1971 and a crowd of almost 50,000 avid baseball fans came out to witness the ceremonies. The three managers enshrined in Cooperstown of Sunday were …

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by admin on July 30th, 2014 Leave a comment »

Goodell Does It Again

A lot of sports fans would like to know how Roger Goodell has become judge and jury, and executioner for the whole of the National Football League. Especially when his judgments are so inconsistent, and often controversial. So he makes over thirty million bucks a year. Does that give him the right? Apparently so. Most everyone has seen the unfortunate …

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by admin on July 29th, 2014 Leave a comment »

New FBS Playoff System Means Change For The SEC

One of my old college professors used to tell us that ‘a camel is a horse designed by a committee’. He didn’t like staff meetings much either. But we all saw his point. None of the really good things in life ever seem to come out of a committee. But here we are, counting on a committee to sort out …

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by admin on July 28th, 2014 Leave a comment »

Clipps Won’t Play For Sterling

It’s a sad situation out in LA., Donald Sterling won’t let go and nobody wants to play for him under the circumstances. Not even the coach. Doc Rivers has already announced his intentions to boycott the franchise if the Sterling name is still attached to it when the new season begins and Doc does not stand alone. The Clippers are …

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by admin on July 26th, 2014 Leave a comment »

New Criteria For Entering The NFL

The times they are a changing for athletes with aspirations of entering the NFL. Too many talented young athletes are giving up on college way too early and going for the big bucks being offered for playing professional football. Some make it, and it is a dream come true. But many others don’t. Recruiters get these guys all pumped up …

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by admin on July 25th, 2014 Leave a comment »