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• NCAA fairness is a one-way street

  By themikeherndon on January 1, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON The NCAA wants college athletics to be fair. It’s right there in its mission statement: “Our purpose is to govern competition in a fair, safe, equitable and sportsmanlike manner, and to integrate intercollegiate athletics into higher education… Read More ›

• How not to handle a coaching search

  By themikeherndon on December 6, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

    By MIKE HERNDON I know it’s been a rough couple of weeks, Ole Miss, but at least you’re not Tennessee. Yes, I’m overstating things for (hopefully) comedic effect. Ole Miss just got hit with another year bowl ban and… Read More ›

• Do we have a new Public Enemy No. 1 in the NBA? Why not?

  By themikeherndon on November 3, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON The 2017 NBA season is barely two weeks old and we have our first gruesome injury (Gordon Hayward in his very first game as a Celtic), the first dose of concern about one of the league favorites… Read More ›

• How do you join college football’s elite? First you have to pay admission

  By themikeherndon on September 2, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON Who are the favorites to win college football’s national championship this season? The names are familiar: Alabama, Ohio State, Florida State, Oklahoma, Clemson. They’re the names we see at the top of the preseason polls pretty much… Read More ›

• The ballad of Hugh Freeze: We hardly knew ye

  By themikeherndon on August 5, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON We humans can look past a lot of things. We can celebrate criminals as heroes, exalt the ignorant as erudite, revere the repressive as liberators. We can rationalize away almost anything, particularly when someone is telling us… Read More ›

• 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 ›