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• 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 he’d worked his whole career for, for 48 hours without some killjoy in New York feeling the need to throw… 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 ›

• You know where you can stick ‘stick to sports’

  By themikeherndon on February 21, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Super Bowl LII: 5 reasons the Eagles could win, and 1 reason they won’t

  By themikeherndon on January 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Of participation trophies and non-participation championships

  By themikeherndon on January 25, 2018 • ( 6 )

  

  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 ›

• Second-guessing the king

  By themikeherndon on January 11, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON We are a nation of Monday-morning quarterbacks, even on a Tuesday. It’s probably not even an American thing, just an innate impulse we carry as humans to second-guess anything of which we think ourselves capable. And we… Read More ›