NFL draft week is here, which means we’ll finally get an answer to that age-old question: How will the Cleveland Browns screw it up this year? That could be a trick question in 2018, as the Browns have their choice… Read More ›
(“Oh sure, NOW you fix the catch rule.” — Dez Bryant, probably. Photo by Keith Allison/Wikimedia Commons) By MIKE HERNDON Let’s say you have a recalcitrant child who won’t clean her room. This may not take much of an imagination… Read More ›
NFL team owners, general managers, coaches, and players remind everyone that the NFL is a business. How dare the business concepts of financial responsibility pervade sports? Saddled with an unforgiving salary cap, NFL team owners and general managers must make… Read More ›
By MIKE HERNDON Every year since I left sports writing I say it, or at least think it: I’m not going to fill out a bracket this year. When I worked in a newsroom, NCAA tournament brackets were a given…. Read More ›
By MIKE HERNDON The Olympics are supposed to be one of those things that bring us all together as Americans — a chance to pull for the same team, to cheer for the young men and women in the red,… Read More ›
Everyone, from the most accomplished former athlete to the average fan, whose only athletic move is the ole 12 ounce curl, agreed that for the Philadelphia Eagles to vanquish the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII, they would need… Read More ›
As the New England Patriots get ready to claim yet another Super Bowl trophy, what better way to help all of the Pats-haters out there than to present the following 12 steps as a guide for learning to live with… Read More ›
By MIKE HERNDON We want to believe it. Those of us who live outside the Northeast, and therefore have no attachment to the New England Patriots aside from being sick of the sight of them, so desperately want to believe… Read More ›
By MIKE HERNDON You’ve got to give Central Florida this much: They’re committed to the bit. UCF Athletic Director Danny White, seizing on his school’s status as the only FBS college football program to finish the season undefeated, boldly declared… Read More ›
Conventional wisdom says that the Jacksonville Jaguars shouldn’t bother playing this weekend against the mighty New England Patriots. After all, the Patriots employ the best head coach, maybe even the best of all time, along with possibly the greatest quarterback… Read More ›
