Football is awesome, right? We can’t get enough of it in this country. It’s a year-round obsession, even though the regular season is only 16 games spanning three or four months. Each game is hyped and treated as if they are a can’t miss event featuring some of the best athletes in the world. Those…
Political correctness is formally known by Oxford Dictionaries as “the avoidance, often considered as taken to extremes, of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against.” From politicians (or attempted politicians) such as Donald Trump to reality TV stars like…
Get it on your calendar. The schedule for the 24-hour Tip-Off Marathon: Mon., Nov. 16 5:30 p.m.: No. 1 UConn at No. 13 Ohio State (women) ESPN2 7:30 p.m.: No. 4 Virginia at George Washington ESPN2 9:00 p.m.: Kennesaw State at LSU ESPNU 9:30 p.m.: San Diego State at No. 13 Utah ESPN2 11:30…
Time to move on to the 49th projected best player in college basketball for 2015-16. #49 Markus Kennedy- SMU Parents are Roysall Kennedy and Barbara Kennedy … Has a brother Mikeal and sister Morgan … Coached by Jason Smith at Brewster Academy … Played AAU basketball for the New England Playaz. from SMU…
#24 Boise State Broncos Head Coach: Bryan Harsin 2014 record: 12-2 overall, 7-1 Mountain West Mountain 2014 Postseason results: Beat Arizona 38-30 in the Fiesta Bowl 2015 returning starters: 9 offense, 8 defense Think on this. Boise State has not lost more than two games in a season for the past seven years. This may be…
We are about 25 days away from college football’s first weekend so it is time to get some preview work in. Mississippi State #25 They started so well last season with a 9-0 start and was the #1 team in the nation for awhile. Coach Dan Mullen then saw his team finish…
How does a guy in a mountain lion suit inspire a shrine, a book, and 107,000 screaming fans? There’s something about mascots that stir up powerful emotions. Penn State’s Nittany Lion is a larger-than-life symbol of the pride that fans feel, says Jackie Esposito, University Archivist and co-author of The Nittany Lion: An Illustrated…
The idea of ranking players becomes very subjective and always open for debate. But to do this, you have to start somewhere. Here we go… #50- Rico Gathers 6’8″ 280 lbs. Rico Gathers, F, Baylor – Ricardo Darnell Gathers Born Jan. 7, 1994, in New Orleans, La. Son of Richard…
Ok, just a note for clarification before I start. This blog will be primarily about football for quite awhile. I will rejoin politics as it gets closer to some kind of meaningful election. Today, I will examine the SEC. For awhile they had dominance over the college sport of football…
Philosophers of liberalism and socialism actually have very different visions for the world. They don’t disagree at all on the idea that spreading the wealth around is good for everybody. In fact, this idea finds one of its greatest expressions in the work of the philosopher of welfare liberalism, John Rawls. He proposed…