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• 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 ›

• RIP, haters

  By themikeherndon on June 22, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON It’s got to be getting lonely to be a LeBron James hater these days. First he couldn’t lead a team to a championship. Then he couldn’t lead a team to a championship unless he was surrounded by… Read More ›

• The method behind Jim Harbaugh’s Twitter madness

  By themikeherndon on June 4, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Photo by Eric Upchurch/Wikipedia Commons By MIKE HERNDON It’s been 145 days since the last college football season ended and it’ll be another 84 days before the next season begins. The NFL draft is over and the conference media days… Read More ›

• Who creates the culture that allows Baylor to happen? We do

  By themikeherndon on May 28, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON What kind of a person cares more about a game than about the well-being of their fellow human beings?  Who creates the kind of culture where we protect the perpetrator but not the victim, where we’re willing… Read More ›

• Is this really what college football needs?

  By themikeherndon on May 24, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON Some prominent figures in college football think the sport needs a commissioner. One voice and all that, you know. It’s easy to understand the appeal after how silly they all appeared in flip-flopping on satellite camps, where… Read More ›

• Drink up: The NHL conference finals are here

  By themikeherndon on May 15, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON Perhaps more than any other sport, watching hockey lends itself to drinking. It could be the ever-present possibility for a bare-knuckle brawl breaking out or just the physicality of the game in general. Perhaps it’s the sight… Read More ›