NFL Week 3 is over and done. What have we learned 3/17ths of the way through the 2009 regular season?
The Lions won a game!  The Lions won a game!  There is much joy in Motown.  Now the Rams, with their 13 consecutive losses, are officially the most hapless team in the NFL.
T.O. snuck his [...]

I was at a sports bar in Tampa, Florida, last weekend, ahem, doing research for Buzzer Eagle, when the subject of the Florida Gators came up.  The guy next to me said, in rapid succession, that a) Superman wears Tim Tebow pajamas, b) they’re thinking of renaming the Heisman “the Tebow”, and c) Tebow could [...]

NFL Week 2 is in the books (almost – I’m writing this before the Sunday & Monday night games), and what have we learned? The Lions lost again. Ho hum. The good news is that they play the Rams in Week 8 of this season. The Rams may be even worse [...]

It’s here. It’s finally here. Week 1 of the 2009 NFL season is in the books. And what have we learned?
The Lions lost. Again. I can’t be bothered to look it up, but they’ve now lost something like 100 games in a row. I don’t think they’ve won a [...]

I had the pleasure of traveling to Jamaica recently, during the IAAF World Championships. It was interesting to be in Jamaica when their single greatest superstar, Usain Bolt, was on the other side of the world jogging past Olympic level athletes without breaking a sweat.
In case you missed it, you can read about the [...]

Football is the sport which truly gets the testosterone boiling.  We all dream of being professional athletes as children, and then reality kicks in and we realize we are not going pro. Instead we settle for coaching from our couches and making the calls.  Then some brilliant visionary created Fantasy Football.  This allows us to be [...]