Miami Dice: How Jeffrey Loria abandoned the Expos in favor of the Marlins
Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria has been spending like a drunken sailor this offseason, trying to improve his team. However, it hasn’t always been so. After years of failed money management with the Montreal Expos, will this new era for the Marlins pay off any differently?
Young Bucs lead new era of football in Tampa Bay
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are on the rise and young quarterback Josh Freeman is just one of the many reasons why. Though they’ll have their work cut out for them improving on last year’s 10-6 campaign, they’re part of an exciting trend of youth and promise in the NFC South. Is a power shift brewing in the NFL?
Chris Johnson, the holdout and the importance of cashing in
This NFL preseason had too many storylines to name after a lockout took away most of the offseason. One of them featured one of the NFL’s top running backs, Chris Johnson, holding out from the second-to-last year in his contract with the Tennessee Titans. After his selection as a first-round pick (24th overall) in 2008, […]
The Pac-12: where the Buffaloes now roam
When the University of Colorado announced last year that they were leaving the Big 12 for the Pac-12, there wasn’t a lot of fanfare. Colorado hasn’t been a top program of late and as a result has been on the wrong end of the spectrum for a number of years. The media also speculated about how many […]
Twists, turns and mediocrity: UNC football after Butch Davis
Starting last Wednesday, there were rumblings around the University of North Carolina football program that something was going to happen. Given the last year of scandal surrounding the program, there was a feeling that news probably wasn’t good. However, few predicted what it was going to be: the firing of head coach Butch Davis. Davis’ firing came at a curious […]
The quiet emergence of Brandon Lloyd
If you asked an average NFL fan who led the league in receiving yards last season, they might not be able to tell you. It wasn’t Larry Fitzgerald or Reggie Wayne, Andre Johnson or Roddy White. It was, if the headline of the story didn’t already give it away, Brandon Lloyd of the Denver Broncos. Prior to his 2010 […]
Former Hawkeye Brad Banks finds home with Iowa Barnstormers
They say you can always go home again. For Brad Banks, the state of Iowa is not home — he’s a Florida native — but it was where his biggest on-field success has come. Banks had a standout senior season at the University of Iowa and now is back in the state with the Iowa Barnstormers of the […]
