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• 2018 NFL predictions: Could it be a black and gold Super Bowl?

  By themikeherndon on September 4, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

    By MIKE HERNDON The answer is: What Le’Veon Bell thinks he’s worth as an “elite offensive weapon,” who Nike chooses as a spokeman, and why Terrell Owens skipped his own Hall of Fame induction. What are: Things I Couldn’t… Read More ›

• Everybody wants Bama: 2018 college football predictions

  By themikeherndon on August 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  (Even Purdue wants Bama. And they couldn’t even beat Northwestern./Twitter @capstonekid) By MIKE HERNDON “We Still Want Bama,” the sign read. And as Central Florida made its season opener against UConn look like a glorified walk-through in a 56-17 victory,… Read More ›

• A little perspective on Media Days, the Heisman, and sports writers

  By themikeherndon on July 29, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON There may be more animosity and mistrust of the media right now than in any time in American history. Or it may be that we just see and hear it more now due to social media and… Read More ›

• Don’t fear the Superteams (unless there’s only one)

  By themikeherndon on June 30, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

    By MIKE HERNDON Avoid the rush – start hating the Lakers now. Actually, you may already find yourself standing in line: When LeBron James announced Sunday that he will sign a four-year, $154 million deal with Los Angeles, the… Read More ›

• Get off Alex Ovechkin’s back: He’s a champion now

  By themikeherndon on June 12, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON What the hell is wrong with us? We can’t even let a man celebrate a championship, one for which he’d worked his whole career, for 48 hours without some killjoy in New York feeling the need to… Read More ›

• Why I can’t jump on the Vegas bandwagon

  By themikeherndon on May 29, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON Everybody remembers the new kid in class. He’s a little nervous at first, unsure of where he fits in. Let’s help him feel at home, the teacher said. He doesn’t know anyone; he’s new. And most of… Read More ›

• 2018 NFL draft: The 5 biggest head-scratchers

  By themikeherndon on May 5, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON Now is the time of the great second-guessing. With the 2018 NFL draft in the books, we’ll spend the next four months wondering whether our favorite teams made the right choices – particularly fans of the Browns,… Read More ›

• It’s NFL draft week: What’s one more mock?

  By themikeherndon on April 23, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• NFL cleans up one mess only to create another

  By themikeherndon on April 9, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  (“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 ›

• A perfectly good waste of 15 minutes

  By themikeherndon on March 15, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›