It’s not so much that sports fans are stupid as much as it is that they can do stupid things. I don’t feel out of line saying that, because I’m convinced it’s true and I know that I’m not an exception. We’re stupid, but not everyone is stupid in the same way. That’s what I […]

Rating: 9.5/10   “If you’re not positive, you’re not growing,” he argued. “You’re already dead, and the bullet hasn’t even found you yet.” –p. 148   The key to living in Ciudad Juárez is not to care about the dead bodies – it’s to see beyond the bodies. It’s a necessity, because the bodies are […]

You’re Terrell Owens and you’re a football player. Actually, you’re a football player without a job, because the Seattle Seahawks released you. It’s a weird feeling and though it’s happened to you before, it had never happened to you at 38 years old. For a while, you were happy again. You had just signed a […]

Rating: 7/10 It’s now official – the BCS is no more and will be replaced by a four-team playoff starting in the 2014-15 season. The announcement, which came on June 26, 2012, has many proponents of college football jumping for joy because truly, anything is better than the BCS system. This much is true. What is also true […]

Do you recognize the man in that picture? Perhaps you don’t. Perhaps, too, I should ask whether you know him before asking whether you’ve recognized him – I know that I didn’t know him. It’s been about six weeks since Wade Davis made the news and so, chances are that if you didn’t know him […]

Rating: 8/10 I bought Jeff Pearlman’s “Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton” last October, not long after Sports Illustrated had published this excerpt of the book – which had created a little buzz for the book and tested the theory that the only bad press is no press. (But I’ll bet that if you asked Pearlman himself, […]

Let us pretend like we are 10, or 15 years into the future because it’s never too early to start planning for the day that Cam Newton’s professional football career is winding down. Only 866 of the 4.72 million individuals who have played college football have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. […]

Time heals all wounds but after almost a month, Junior Seau’s suicide stings just as much as when it was first announced. It’s too bad, and sad, that he felt like he had no other solutions than to take his own life. I didn’t know him, but it was heartbreaking to see his mother burst […]

To every member of the Washington Redskins, Thank you. I’m happy and proud to join your organization. I’m relieved that the day has finally come, especially considering Mr. Mike Shanahan’s remaining 0.1 percent of doubt that he would select someone other than me. By now, you all probably know me at the very least because […]

When the 2012 NFL season starts, wide receiver Brandon Lloyd will be 31 years old and for the first time in his nine-year career, he will play on an elite team. Lloyd signed a three-year, $12-million contract with the New England Patriots on March 18, 2012, and he confirmed what had been the worst kept […]