It’s one of the biggest “My Dad can beat up your Dad” arguments in all of sports: Conference comparisons. While only Alabama, LSU, Florida and Auburn have Crystal Balls in their trophy case the past few seasons, you wouldn’t know it if you stopped in Lexington, Athens or Knoxville. The SEC has been the cream [...]
2012 CFB Preview Part 9: Ranking The Conference’s #’s 7-8
It’s one of the biggest “My Dad can beat up your Dad” arguments in all of sports: Conference comparisons. While only Alabama, LSU, Florida and Auburn have Crystal Balls in their trophy case the past few seasons, you wouldn’t know it if you stopped in Lexington, Athens or Knoxville. The SEC has been the cream [...]
2012 CFB Preview Part 9: Ranking The Conference’s #’s 9-10
It’s one of the biggest “My Dad can beat up your Dad” arguments in all of sports: Conference comparisons. While only Alabama, LSU, Florida and Auburn have Crystal Balls in their trophy case the past few seasons, you wouldn’t know it if you stopped in Lexington, Athens or Knoxville. The SEC has been the cream [...]
2012 CFB Preview Part 9: Ranking The Conferences #’s 11-12
It’s one of the biggest “My Dad can beat up your Dad” arguments in all of sports: Conference comparisons. While only Alabama, LSU, Florida and Auburn have Crystal Balls in their trophy case the past few seasons, you wouldn’t know it if you stopped in Lexington, Athens or Knoxville. The SEC has been the cream [...]
Penn State: What Should Happen Now?
First of all let me say that I was wrong. I believed in Joe Paterno. I believed that we would ultimately learn that Joe Paterno had done what he was supposed to do. That we would find that this was covered up from him as much as it was covered up from the police and [...]
Understanding Penn State Fans’ Attitudes Today
Cognitive dissonance- anxiety that results from simultaneously holding contradictory orotherwise incompatible attitudes, beliefs, or the like, as when onelikes a person but disapproves strongly of one of his or her habits. (dictionary.com) We have all seen this. This has happened to all of us. Everyone, at some point or another, has to reconcile conflicting beliefs. [...]
2012 CFB Preview Part 8: Five Weekends to Circle
While I would never suggest to anyone to skip a weekend of college football action, reality is not everyone is into the sport as much as myself and some others. As such they won’t watch all 14 weeks of action in order to catch all the best games available to them. So in my usual [...]
10 Rookies To Make An Impact In 2012
It seems like more and more in today’s NFL, rookies step in and play a larger role than in seasons past. In 2011, Cam Newton and Andy Dalton far exceeded first year expectations and went on to break and set records. Dalton’s running mate, A.J. Green lived up to his hype and made the big [...]
Paterno Latest Example of Sports’ Imagery Painting
He had me fooled. Like many in the sports world I bought into the Joe Paterno legacy. The long tenured Penn State coach seemed to exemplify all that is right in sports and the fact he had built the program into a traditional power without violations only added to that image. For over forty years [...]
2012 CFB Preview Part 7: Major Storylines
Certain things tend to stick out whenever the college football season approaches as the major talking points. They’ll be the lead stories on ESPN, the most frequent discussions on team message boards and yes, the topics most blogged about in writeups like this one. From now until the end of the season we’ll be hearing [...]
