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Are NCAA Bowl Bans Hurting the NCAA? Grant it!  The NCAA needs some enforcement power over college sports!  After all, it wouldn't be much of a governing body if it didn't. The NCAA has been using bowl bans since 1953 as a sanctions tool.  To be more explicit, bowl...

Packer wide receiver Greg Jennings is in his contract year! Greg Jennings becomes an unrestricted free agent at the end of this football season. This subject has been bugging me for the past couple of months.  I finally decided to write about it.  It's now popped up...

The BCS standings will be announced on Sunday night, and it looks like the Alabama Crimson Tide will fall out of the No. 1 spot with their lose today to Johnny Football and his Texas A&M Aggies.  As reported by ESPN,  Johnny Football and the SEC newbies from Texas...

I had tuned out Monday Night football this evening.  What originally sounded like a great match-up between the Peyton Manning led Denver Broncos and Philip River's San Diego Chargers quickly feel sour in the first half.  I must admit, I didn't pay much attention to...

I've been watching closely, and it's apparent to me that the Green Bay Packers have been sucked in by what I'll call the Hollywood dilemma. Consequently, once this dreaded disease hits a football team they lose the need and desire to win!  Too bad! The Green Bay...

It seems clear to me that the NFL is not really concerned about it's teams and players. All they really care about is profit and maintaining the status quo as they define it. And their current definition includes the protection of their NFL Replacement Officials. Hey,...

I just witnessed a crime on Monday Night Football.  The NFL Replacement Officials just made perhaps the greatest series of mistakes every made in the history of the National Football League (NFL). In my opinion, the NFL just  experienced a significant blow to their...

Founded some 65 years ago, NASCAR has remained a family-owned and operated business that today claims to generate over $3 billion worth of merchandise revenue annually.  That’s a lot of mesh hats!  Don’t we all wish we had that kind of “family business” to fall into? ...

The world golf ranking system MUST be flawed if Luke Donald is still the No. 1 ranked golfer in the world.  Unfortunately, over its 26 years of existence and changes, golf’s player ranking system has never received the level of scrutiny of college football’s BCS...

Was the NCAA punishment of Penn State football fair?  What's your opinion? How long will it take Penn State football to recover from these NCAA sanctions? Let us know in your comments! [polldaddy poll=6411527]   Read More on Child Sex Abuse by Jerry Sandusky and...

I’m always glad when Leo Durocher’s famous adage of “nice guys finish last” is proven wrong………but this time maybe a little more so.  Ernie Els has been struggling with trying to find his majestic golf game in recent years, and he’s also been struggling to cope with...

There are some indications that a Joe Paterno Foundation will be established in the foreseeable future.  That part seems to be fact.  However, it’s fiction to believe that the Joe Paterno Foundation for Sexually Abused Children will be established.  I believe it...

I live in the Tampa Bay area, follow the Rays very closely, and still can’t really tell you how they’ve managed to win more than they lose in recent years.  The team has been a little down so far this season, 9½ games behind the Bronx Bombers at this particular point...

Well, its induction weekend at Cooperstown and as usual Pete Rose finds his way into the news.  Funny thing about the timing of this annual coincidence.  This year though it’s much more than “Charlie Hustle” just setting up a table on Main Street signing No. 14...

We already suspected the involvement of three top-level Penn State University officials (fired President Graham Spanier; “retired” Senior VP of Finance and Business who also oversaw the university’s police force, Gary Schultz; and still out-on-administrative-leave...

I get it and I agree, the MLB All-Star game is designed for fan entertainment.   However, AL starting pitcher Justin Verlander must have forgotten that since 2003 (whether fair or not) the game’s outcome also means something CRITICALLY important……home field advantage...

I watched this evening's ESPN NFL Live show and it revealed some startling facts that the NFL is going to have to address.  According to a recent ESPN NFL Live poll, over 64 percent of respondents said they had a much more enjoyable experience watching NFL Football...

On this eve of the “Midsummer Classic”, I am convinced now more than ever that it’s time to once and for all correct the way these Major League Baseball All-Stars are selected….and in doing so restore America’s national pastime.  No doubt the increase of inter-league...

What once was a July 4th tradition has now admittedly turned into a total farce.  Nathan's Hot Dog Eating contest is suppose to be the “Super Bowl” of Major League Eating (MLE) staged every year at the perfect venue in Coney Island……..the corner of Surf and Stillwell...

After eight years, the lovely Erin Andrews (34) let her ESPN contract expire on June 30 and will now be employed by FOX Sports.  This season, FOX will be competing for the first time ever with college football mainstays ESPN, ABC, and CBS in primetime.  Andrews will...

A very unusual thing happened last weekend in Eugene, Oregon.  Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh both finished in a dead heat for 3rd place (11.068 sec) in the Women’s 100-Meter Finals for U.S. Olympic Team qualifications.  Only one can go to London representing our...

Yesterday it became official, and what was a six-month “evaluation process” reached its conclusion.  The Bowl Championship Series (or BCS), which began in 1998, will be terminated following this coming college football season.  A committee of 12 University presidents...

The men’s College World Series is now down to the final two teams.  The University of South Carolina Gamecocks versus the University of Arizona Wildcats.  The best-of-three series begins tonight.  The Gamecocks will be trying to win their third NCAA championship in a...

Yesterday, former long-time Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was found guilty on 45 counts of child sexual abuse.  The trial that began on June 11 in the tiny Pennsylvania town of Bellefonte (just ten miles from the Penn State campus),...