Michael Wilbon has a nice article up about parity in college football. He frames it in reference to Maryland fans’ dissatisfaction with this year’s team. They feel like since they’ve won 10 games three years in row that they should just continue that. Nuh uh. It doesn’t work like that. Not anymore (if it ever…

You’ve probably seen by now, but I’ll tell ya anyway. Florida fired head football coach Ron Zook today. Curiously, they are letting him finish out the season as a lame gator. I have no problem with the firing; it was inevitable. Actually, I’m kind of happy, because it gives me a second chance to post…

Julius Hodge, comedian. When asked about Rashad McCants’ now infamous “jail” quote, Hodge had this to say: I don’t look at it in that same way, because if that’s the way he looks at it, I would hate to see what their shower scene looks like. You can read that here, right at the bottom.…

This is pretty fascinating. According to Dan Hughes, the director of basketball operations for the MAC, refs can actually whistle a technical foul on coaches for yelling at their own players! It’s not clear if he meant that this was only in the MAC, but it sounded like he was implying it was a national…

OK, they aren’t really killing it, but it made for a better headline. What’s really happening is that the good folks at the NCAA have decided to tweak the lame RPI. Good. What they are doing is taking into account the location of games, whether they are home, road or neutral. That’s a welcome change,…

The other day, I linked to an article about a Hispanic soccer league here in Raleigh. I was amazed that they actually recruit pro players from Mexico and other South and Central American countries. Well,

A while back, I was dutifully keeping up with the Duke Basketball Report’s ACC previews. Somehow, I fell behind. Instead of linking to them all separately, I’ll just send to the Maryland preview. From there, it’s a pretty easy link to the rest. They’ve finished all eleven previews and they do a really good job.…

The Sports Economist has a very interesting post about a paper concerning the economic impact of building medieval cathedrals and comparing that to building modern sports arenas. The argument is that the full cost is not just price of the arena or stadium, but also the opportunity costs. What else could that money, labor and…

Tony Kornheiser nails my feelings about the NHL lockout. It can be summed up thusly: so what? Now in fairness, I am not a big hockey fan. I have nothing against the game, I just don’t have the time in my life for another sport and I have plenty, thank you. The thing is, we’re…

This wouldn’t really be newsworthy if he hadn’t had a serious bout of illness this summer, but Wake’s Eric Williams is sick again. It doesn’t sound like they really know why, but when you lose 15 pounds in one day, that’s a big deal, even when you’re as big as he is. If you don’t…