After months of games, tournaments, and speculation, the field is now set for the NCAA Tournament. The #1 seeds are strong as always—Kentucky, North Carolina, Syracuse, Michigan State—but history has proven that their strength guarantees them very little. Though no #1 seed has ever lost in the first round, second round upsets do occur, and…
Read More »Until recently, I paid little attention to NASCAR. It seemed that all NASCAR was about was turning left and going fast while turning left. Then, a few years ago, I went to Charlotte, NC, to do some work with Motor Racing Outreach. While there, we visited the car shops and met the teams that build…
Read More »We now enter that difficult time of year when the coaching carousel in is full swing—both in college football and in the NFL. It is the time of year when athletic directors and general mangers (or owners) decide it is time for a change of direction. The usual comment is that the outgoing coach has…
Read More »In recent weeks, the San Francisco 49ers (Jim Harbaugh), Cleveland Browns (Pat Shurmur), Carolina Panthers (Ron Rivera), and Denver Broncos (John Fox) have introduced new head coaches. In a sense, it represents a fresh start for each of these once-proud franchises that have fallen far from the heights of the NFL’s elite. In another sense,…
Read More »It is the NFL’s equivalent of NASCAR’s silly season, and players are moving from team to team so quickly that it seems impossible to keep up. Though the superstars in the NFL make millions, however, many players are just happy to have a job—and that is a sentiment easily understood in the light of the…
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