Booming Columbus, OH is thick with former Ohio State Buckeye football players who are part of the boom. Their close ties with the school’s most prominent alums, and that were forged during their playing days, have set all too many up for life in an employment sense. The previous anecdote is probably the best […]
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Fifty years ago, on Nov. 30, 1974, my dad took my 7-year-old sister and me to the Los Angeles Coliseum to see Notre Dame play football against the University of Southern California. My dad had been a USC fan since his college days when a fellow midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy convinced him
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A scroll through ESPN.com last Saturday afternoon revealed a bit of a shocker. #6 Ole Miss had lost to unranked Kentucky, 20-17. Trite as it sounds, muscle memory of sorts brought on the scroll of the scores in the first place. They’re not as meaningful as they used to be. Shock is the stuff
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Playing was the fun part, while practicing and exercising were the work required to get to the fun part of playing. The weekend part. For Derrick Henry, it seems the weekend is all week.
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If you’re interested in or remember John Wooden and UCLA’s basketball dynasty, you’ll enjoy Scott Howard-Cooper’s new book, Kingdom on Fire. It’s a fun read that shines a light on Wooden’s genius, while also reminding readers how much fun college sports used to be, including the formerly great UCLA/Notre Dame basketball rivalry.
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It would be difficult to find a more dangerous, at odds with reality belief than the one that says war brings with it a growth upside.
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As always, all decisions are business decisions. College football has made a bad one, and soon enough we’ll be wondering who plays for teams we don’t watch, if at all, until late December or early January.
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