With the NFL lockout dragging on and with talks frozen until sometime after Judge Susan Nelson rules on the union’s injunction to block the lockout, the odds of any negotiation taking place before May is quite remote. Then again, it seems that very little meaningful discussion has occurred at all. The critical problem thus far [...]
At its best, ESPN’s documentary on Michigan’s Fab Five reminds viewers of the most talented starting unit in NCAA history and the unquestioned excitement it brought to college basketball. At its worst, it fails to connect the dots in a series of events that turned an underdog national champion into a rogue program where boosters [...]
Coach Jim Tressel is full of crap. Then again so is major college athletics. After more than 10 years of doing so, Stanford, according to a report by the San Francisco Chronicle, finally decided to discontinue its “Courses of Interest” handout that highlighted easy classes. The list, available only at the Athletic Academic Resource Center, [...]
In a community where nearly anything related to BYU conjures up images of original sin, it may seem risky to heap praise on the Provo school that, for decades, abused Hawaii’s favorite athletic program. But fair is fair. While BYU’s honor code may seem unenforceable and outdated, the school’s adherence to the policy that directs [...]
The lead story for every golf publication, website and Golf Channel program heading into the Farmers Insurance Open was that Tiger Woods was going to begin his season. After the tournament, in which he tied for 44th, and the subsequent roller-coaster performance in Dubai, the biggest story was that the former world’s No. 1 had [...]
By the time you read this, some 109,901 people will have packed into Michigan Stadium to distantly observe a college hockey game for the express purpose of being able to tell their saner, warmer and less ocularly challenged friends that they were there to barely see it happen. “The Big Chill at the Big House” [...]
Excuse UH fans for walking around in a stupor the past few days. Ever since Colorado State, Air Force, Brigham Young, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada-Las Vegas, San Diego State and Wyoming split from the Western Athletic Conference – following a clandestine meeting at Denver International Airport in 1998 – Hawaii fans have bristled at their [...]
For all his talents as a manager, Sparky Anderson wasn’t one of the game’s great prognosticators. Due greatly to his overall enthusiasm, Anderson’s promotion of young players could be almost comical. In 1985 with Detroit, Anderson called Chris Pittaro “the best infield prospect I’ve had come through camp in 15 years.” The plan was to [...]
We told you a week ago that Reggie Bush doesn’t care about college foot-ball’s biggest award. It’s not because he’s callous, which he appears to be, but because the Heisman, while it looks great on the mantle, has lost all meaning. Beano Cook must be rolling in his grave. (OK, we know he’s still among [...]
When the Golf Channel went looking for a famous hacker to team up with a famous teacher in an effort to fill its ever-expanding need for programming, the network couldn’t have done any better than Charles Barkley. The former Round Mound of Rebound turned even rounder mound of sound, was the perfect foil for the [...]
