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• Business decisions force players and fans to move on

  By MichaelDay on March 29, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  NFL team owners, general managers, coaches, and players remind everyone that the NFL is a business.  How dare the business concepts of financial responsibility pervade sports? Saddled with an unforgiving salary cap, NFL team owners and general managers must make… 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 • ( 1 )

  

  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 ›

• Four reasons why the Philadelphia Eagles took flight and beat the New England Patriots

  By MichaelDay on February 8, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Everyone, from the most accomplished former athlete to the average fan, whose only athletic move is the ole 12 ounce curl, agreed that for the Philadelphia Eagles to vanquish the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII, they would need… Read More ›

• 12 steps for Pats-haters coping with New England’s success

  By MichaelDay on February 1, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  As the New England Patriots get ready to claim yet another Super Bowl trophy, what better way to help all of the Pats-haters out there than to present the following 12 steps as a guide for learning to live with… 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 • ( 7 )

  

  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 ›

• The Jags win and Blake Bortles becomes a hero

  By MichaelDay on January 20, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Conventional wisdom says that the Jacksonville Jaguars shouldn’t bother playing this weekend against the mighty New England Patriots. After all, the Patriots employ the best head coach, maybe even the best of all time, along with possibly the greatest quarterback… 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 ›

• Forgive me, Alabama, it won’t happen again

  By themikeherndon on January 8, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  By MIKE HERNDON I’ve learned my lesson. I picked Clemson to beat Alabama in last week’s College Football Playoff semifinal. I knew Alabama’s defense had been beat up most of the season. I knew they were getting healthier. And I… Read More ›

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