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• Nothing worse than new money: The ACC stakes its claim as college football’s best conference

  By themikeherndon on July 16, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

    By MIKE HERNDON There’s nothing worse, the old saying goes, than new money. The recently rich usually don’t know how to handle it. They buy gaudy crap. They flaunt it when they don’t have to. They exaggerate their wealth… Read More ›

• Who’s the greatest ever? What difference does it make?

  By themikeherndon on June 1, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON Here we are, ready to watch two dominant basketball teams square off for the NBA title for the third straight year, and all you people want to talk about is whether we can start calling LeBron James… Read More ›

• Why draft grades are a waste of time

  By themikeherndon on May 12, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON When the NFL draft ended a couple weeks ago, most of us went through a similar routine. We reveled in the picks we liked. We debated those we didn’t. We looked up profiles on our favorite team’s… Read More ›

• A fool’s errand: Mocking the 2017 NFL draft

  By themikeherndon on April 25, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON Why do we do this to ourselves? Why do we try to predict the unpredictable? We are gluttons for punishment, for the embarrassment of being wrong, but we can’t help ourselves. We can’t help but try to… Read More ›

• Leave the officiating on the court and the field, not the couch

  By themikeherndon on April 5, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON There was less than a minute to play in the NCAA national championship game when North Carolina’s Kennedy Meeks and Gonzaga’s Silas Melson hit the floor to try to corral a loose ball with the Tar Heels… Read More ›

• Our love-hate relationship with hockey fights

  By themikeherndon on March 22, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON Turtle Day was 20 years ago this month. Unless you’re a hockey fan or live in Michigan, you probably think that involves reptiles with shells on their backs. Ask a hockey fan from Michigan about Turtle Day… Read More ›

• The curious case against Russell Westbrook

  By themikeherndon on March 8, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  (Russell Westbrook leads the NBA in scoring at 32.1 points per game. Photo by Tiago Hammil) By MIKE HERNDON Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban likes to wind people up. Earlier this week, he knew just how to do it. Mark… Read More ›

• Shooting spitballs at the Death Star: Why we hate the Patriots

  By themikeherndon on February 12, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON Score another one for the Evil Empire. Sith Lord Brady slew the young, developing Jedi from Atlanta and Pittsburgh — forget the Texans, mere mortals that they are — and the Emperor Belichick rules the NFL galaxy once… Read More ›

• Super Bowl LI: 5 reasons the Patriots will win

  By themikeherndon on February 2, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  (Tom Brady has more Super Bowl experience than the Falcons’ entire active roster. Photo by Andrew Campbell/Wikimedia Commons) By MIKE HERNDON Let me start off by saying that I hope I am wrong. I hope the long-suffering Falcons hang half-a-hundred… Read More ›

• Alabama vs. Clemson: Who ya got?

  By themikeherndon on January 8, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  (Dabo Swinney leads Clemson against Alabama on Monday for the college football national championship. Photo by LambeauLeap80/Wikimedia Commons) Alabama (14-0) meets Clemson (13-1) in Tampa on Monday night in Tampa for the college football national championship, a rematch of last… Read More ›