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The SEC Dominates National Signing Day, Again

The SEC may have lost the National Football Championship… for the time being but when it came to the recruiting class of 2014, the nation’s top conference came out on top once again. Alabama and LSU led the nation in recruiting on National Signing Day in hopes of paving the way to yet another national title for the SEC. In …

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by admin on February 15th, 2014 Leave a comment »

Los Angeles Needs An NFL Team

How is it possible that the second largest city on the North American continent does not have a professional football team? They used to have one, or even two. How in the world did the Rams end up in St. Louis and the Raiders in Oakland?  What went wrong? But wait, it came out recently that Stan Kroenke, the billionaire …

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by admin on February 13th, 2014 Leave a comment »

Don’t Cross That Line

Marcus Smart could be playing in the NBA today instead of for the Cowboys of Oklahoma State.  He was considered one of the top prospects for the NBA Draft last year but announced in April that he would be returning to Stillwater for his sophomore year saying that he wanted to help take the Cowboys to the Final Four before …

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by admin on February 13th, 2014 Leave a comment »

Massive Expansion Coming To NCAA Stadiums

With the TV money starting to roll in big time now, many universities and colleges around the country have undertaken major expansions to their sports facilities.  Bigger stadiums mean more tickets sold and even greater revenues to be gained from the action down on the field. That, after all, it what everybody’s coming out to see. Notre Dame in South …

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by admin on February 12th, 2014 Leave a comment »

Thursday Night Football Will Be On CBS

It was inevitable that the NFL Network would eventually team up with one of the major networks to provide expanded coverage of NFL football games. The commissioner’s office announced last week that they have entered into an agreement with CBS Sports to present 8 Thursday Night Football games that were previously offered only on the NFL Network. CBS will produce …

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by admin on February 11th, 2014 Leave a comment »

USA Wins The First Gold Medal At Sochi

When American Snow Boarder Shaun White dropped out of the new SlopeStyle competition at the Sochi Olympics to concentrate on his upcoming HalfPipe event, he caught a lot of flack. A few fellow competitors even called him a coward and a sellout. Shaun White is probably the best known name in the sport of Snow Boarding.  In fact it could …

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by admin on February 10th, 2014 Leave a comment »

NFL Says Concussion Rates Down This Year

The NFL Commissioner’s office has released data that concussions in the league have dropped by an overall 13% over last season’s figure and that helmet to helmet hits had decreased by 23% over the same period. The NFL’s Senior Vice President of Health and Safety Policy, Jeff Miller, told reporters that the new uniform protocols on the sidelines for diagnosing …

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

Gamechanger Plays Set In Motion Against NCAA

2013 was not a good year for Marc Emmert and the NCAA Commissioner’s office and 2014 is not shaping up to be any better for the embattled leaders of college athletics.  This may well mark the end of an era. Already taking heat over its handling or mishandling… of the mess down at the University of Miami, the NCAA was …

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

Two Dimes A Ticket For College Title Game In 2015

Now that there is no more BCS, college sports fans will be expecting some changes in the way that the college football playoffs are run. Hopefully for the better, although it looks like most of the same folks running things that we had last year. One of the changes that we probably should have expected will be a rather steep …

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

Super Bowl Sunday Handle Almost $120,000,000 In Nevada

No one, not even in retrospect, predicted the dominance of the Denver Broncos by the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLVIII. It started with the opening snap from center flying over Peyton Manning’s head and the day went quickly downhill from there for Denver. It was one of the biggest days in the history of wagering in the USA and …

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by admin on February 3rd, 2014 Leave a comment »