Tomorrow evening is a Thursday night smack dab in the middle of the NFL’s offseason, so it’s hard to believe we can say this, but it’s true: Tomorrow night may be the most important evening of the year for many NFL teams. Of course, this is because tomorrow night is the first round of the…
Read More »In my younger years, I played third base in both baseball and slow-pitch softball. As a result, I can tell you from experience that this idea of third base being the “hot corner” is not a figment of the imagination! It is completely about being able to instantly react. You don’t have time to think…
Read More »As a fan of Liverpool Football Club, this has been a challenging year. With their fourth manager in the last four years, the storied Reds have not exactly been a model of stability (for that, take a look at the New England Patriots or Pittsburgh Steelers). But when 39-year-old Brendon Rogers was hired last summer,…
Read More »When we last saw NASCAR at Homestead, Florida, last November, Brad Keselowski was winning his first ever Sprint Cup championship. The back story, however, was all about the growing feud between Clint Bowyer and Jeff Gordon. Gordon, as you may recall, had intentionally wrecked Bowyer the previous week in Phoenix, resulting in a brawl between…
Read More »Last Thursday night, the Indianapolis Colts easily defeated the Jaguars, 27-10, in Jacksonville to go 6-3 as they pass the midpoint of the NFL season. Considering how dreadful the Colts were last year, that 6-3 record would be a huge story all by itself, but what makes it even more significant is the play of…
Read More »In the English Premier League, and throughout world football, finances have become an increasing problem. “Financial Fair Play” has become the buzz phrase to describe the desperate need for fiscal accountability among football clubs. The amounts of money being paid to and for players has skyrocketed to unbelievable levels, prompting financial practices that have brought…
Read More »Last Friday night, in the National League’s one-game wild card playoff, Chipper Jones and the Atlanta Braves were eliminated from the postseason by the defending World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals. The outcome, however, hinged heavily on one call by the left field foul line umpire who enforced the infield fly rule on a ball…
Read More »Last week we discussed the special pressure attached to a fourth and goal situation with the game on the line. Today we examine a somewhat different but, in its own right, equally important pressure-point in a football game—the two-minute drill. As the clock is winding down, the ability to execute on offense becomes more and more…
Read More »It’s that time of year again, and NFL football fans are licking their lips because this week they’ll start to see a flurry of exhibition games—signaling that the start of the 2012 season is not far away. It used to be the case that the NFL was a fall sport, but now it seems to…
Read More »In NASCAR garage areas, it is not uncommon to hear comments like, “If you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying” and “It’s our job to cheat and it’s their (NASCAR’s) job to catch us.” This weekend, as NASCAR’s top series headed to Kentucky for the Quaker State 400, we were reminded why it is so tempting…
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