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Phil Jackson’s New Gig
Doc Rivers and Phil Jackson have switched coasts. It would have been very interesting to see them both in Los Angeles, on opposite sides of the court at Staples Center when the Lakers and the Clippers played but, alas, that was not to be. Diehard fans in Southern California, and elsewhere, were still holding out a last thread of hope …
Read Full Entryby admin on April 8th, 2014 Leave a comment »
Basketball Replay & Review Needs Redo
If you are among the many basketball fans who think that the current replay review system in place in the NCAA is awkward don’t feel alone. When 13 year olds ask why they aren’t using up to date technology, you know something is wrong. Why is it, when we see 1:30 remaining in the second half of a good college …
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Coach Cal For Coach Of The Year
How was he supposed to get back to the playoffs with a bunch of freshman? No one really gave him much of a chance. At mid-season it appeared that the nay-sayers had been correct. The Kentucky Wildcat basketball team for 2014 was just not up to the standards set in previous years. Fanatical fans were frustrated. Sports writers went on …
Read Full Entryby admin on April 5th, 2014 Leave a comment »
What CAPA Is Really Asking For (Part 2)
This piece is a continuation of a look at the current conflict between student athletes in America and the organization that was originally formed to protect them, the NCAA and its embattled president Mark Emmert. One of the rather ugly practices that the universities engage in on a regular basis is recruiting players and then, for their own reasons, cutting …
Read Full Entryby admin on April 4th, 2014 Leave a comment »
What CAPA Is Really Asking For (Part 1)
While NCAA officials are busy crying about ‘pay-for-play’ in the NCAA, the soon to be players union at Northwestern and the organization behind them, known as CAPA, have stated their goals publically in writing and only one of them has anything at all to do with more money for the athletes. You see, the basic premise argued before the National …
Read Full Entryby admin on April 3rd, 2014 Leave a comment »
Mark Cuban Spells Doom For The NFL
Controversial Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban seems to think that the National Football League is about to implode. In case you are wondering, dictionary.com defines implode as: ‘to collapse inwards in a violent manner as a result of external pressure’. Just how that ‘implosion’ would appear on our TV screens is hard to imagine. Just what ‘external pressures’ could actually …
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The New Speedflex Helmet From Riddell
The very company that is taking a lot of heat, and lawsuits, these days has introduced a radically new football helmet with some very special features. In the past couple of years the issue of concussions suffered by NFL and college football players has come to the attention of the public. The issue has been there for years. In the …
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Johnny Football Gets Ready For The NFL Draft
Johnny Manziel is one of the most talked about college football players in recent memory. Also known as ‘Johnny Football’, Manziel is probably the most famous non-professional athlete in the world, certainly in the USA he is. Few athletes in modern times have gathered such attention after only two years of college football. Remember that Manziel was a red shirt …
Read Full Entryby admin on March 31st, 2014 Leave a comment »
No Mo Dunkin’ The Goal Posts
Remember when Jimmy Graham made a go-ahead touchdown against the Falcons and then proceeded to do his trademark dunk over the goal post to celebrate his feat? Remember that he hit the thing a little too hard and bent the whole goal posts off center to the right? Then some guys with the biggest level that anyone had ever seen …
Read Full Entryby admin on March 29th, 2014 Leave a comment »
SEC Contemplates Nine Conference Games
With the advent of the new SEC Network, there is now added pressure on the member universities to increase the number of conference games that each school will play during the regular season. There are now 14 teams in the Southeastern Conference with the addition of Texas A&M and Missouri and both of the newcomers have held their own against …
Read Full Entryby admin on March 28th, 2014 Leave a comment »
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