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• NFL playoffs: The good, the bad and the lucky

  By themikeherndon on January 4, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  (NRG Stadium in Houston, site of Super Bowl LI/Photo by Agustindelosdolores2002. Wikimedia Commons) By MIKE HERNDON The Browns finally won a game. The Cowboys finally lost again. The Patriots were the Patriots. And with that, the NFL’s regular season has come… Read More ›

• It’s silly season: Don’t fall for the BS

  By themikeherndon on December 20, 2016 • ( 0 )

                                     (Photo of Jim Harbaugh by Eric Upchurch, via Wikimedia Commons) By MIKE HERNDON Did you hear Jim Harbaugh might be going to Los… Read More ›

• Ball don’t lie: This isn’t your big brother’s SEC

  By themikeherndon on December 1, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON There are certain things that most Southerners hold to be self-evident. Tea should be sweet. Chicken should be fried. The Andy Griffith Show should always be on the air somewhere. And the SEC is the best football… Read More ›

• Take your goat and go home: The Cubs’ curse is over

  By themikeherndon on November 3, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

    By MIKE HERNDON Teddy Roosevelt was president. New York City had just begun a new tradition — dropping the ball in Times Square to celebrate New Year’s. A long-distance radio message was sent for the first time from the… Read More ›

• Requiem for The Hat

  By themikeherndon on September 27, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  There will be no more eating grass in the SEC. No more distinctions between the “hammer” and the “nail.” No more use of the word “want” as a noun, or the phrase “just so you know” in every other sentence…. Read More ›

• Fearless and loathsome college football predictions for 2016

  By themikeherndon on August 31, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON It’s finally here. You don’t have to fret about the heat anymore. You don’t have to pay attention to this farce of a presidential election anymore. You don’t have to keep yourself amused with Jim Harbaugh’s Twitter… Read More ›

• In defense of silver and bronze

  By themikeherndon on August 14, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON One of the moments I won’t forget from these Olympics is the end of the men’s 100-meter breaststroke final. Great Britain’s Adam Peaty set a world record, and wild celebration erupted in the pool afterward. But the… Read More ›

• Is it finally time to throw back the throwbacks?

  By themikeherndon on July 28, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON While a couple of all-time greats got inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame, the other big story out of Major League Baseball over the last week involved a star pitcher who found his team’s 1976 throwback jerseys… Read More ›

• The shoegazer’s guide to discipline in the SEC

  By themikeherndon on July 15, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON Alabama’s Cameron Robinson and Hootie Jones will not miss any game time after they were arrested for marijuana possession and, in Robinson’s case, possession of a stolen gun. Four Auburn players who were arrested on marijuana charges in… Read More ›

• What a swim dad learned from the Olympic trials

  By themikeherndon on July 1, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Ashton Ellzey By MIKE HERNDON As the father of two competitive swimmers, I and my household have been watching a good bit of the U.S. Olympic swimming trials as Michael Phelps, Katie Ledecky, Missy Franklin, Ryan Lochte and hundreds of… Read More ›