LUC’S RETURN NOT THE ONLY CAUSE CELEBRE
Before a game with the Bulls last season, Lakers coach Del Harris was informed that Luc Longley had injured some body part or other and would miss the Los Angeles...
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`CLUB FIGHTERS’ WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD
Mugging Cinderella does not mean living happily ever after, or even through the postgame bath if you are the New England Patriots. "You win the AFC championship and you have...
BIG TUNA’S ACT HINTS AT OTHER FISH TO FRY
Bill Parcells is called Big Tuna, to his face sometimes. The reason is obvious. Parcells looks like a big fish. A big game fish, but still, a fish. Other than...
`OUR TOWN’ COMES ALIVE IN NFL TITLE GAMES
The possibility of a Super Bowl between Mayberry and Mt. Pilot is just what the NFL deserves for allowing into the league places without sidewalks. Who would have thought that...
IN DECISIONS LIKE THESE, ONLY ONE OPINION MATTERS
Testing, testing. Three. Two. One. Is this thing on? Can we get started? Thank you all for coming. I have called this press conference to announce I am forfeiting whatever...
ONE THING ABOUT FINAL 4: IT’S HIGHLY DEGRADABLE
Let's see. According to my handy postseason eye chart and mix-and-match, Green Bay is the Pack. New England is the Pats. Jacksonville is the Jags. That makes Carolina the what,...
YOUTH IS SERVED, EVEN IN ELWAY’S HOUSE
In the twilight John Elway stood, helmet in hand, watching the future take a knee, the home stadium clock racing backward without brakes to maybe the greatest upset in NFL...
THE NATIONAL CHAMP? ANYBODY BUT FLORIDA
Sorting out a national college football champion is like searching for loose change on the floor of a movie theater. The hunt is more interesting than whatever you find. Astonishingly...
NU’S 2-YEAR RUN LEAVES COLLEGE FOOTBALL A WINNER
The rout long settled, the pasteled pilgrims of Tennessee throated a group gloat. "SEC! SEC!" they shouted from across a line first scrawled by Mason and by Dixon, this day...
IF MANNING IS STIFLED, VOLS MAY THANK NU
My search for signs of significance continues here at the CompromiseUSA Citrus Bowl, wondering why an occasionally digestible all-you-can-eat buffet should be interrupted by a college football game, counting Tennessee...