Category: Sports Columns
The Bengals, Browns and English Poetry
In 1849, esteemed British poet, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, delivered one of the most poignant and oft-quoted lines in the history of the English language: “‘Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.” Now,...
Five Hot Takes: NFL Week Six
Aaron Rodgers’ injury, the last unbeaten falls, and more as Five Hot Takes returns for the second week. 1. Rodgers’ injury changes playoff landscape The Green Bay Packers’ season just got a whole lot tougher Sunday, after Aaron...
Three strangely interesting teams for the 2017-2018 NBA season
We’ve all heard the statement before. You could be discussing the record-setting amount of All-Stars moving teams in the NBA offseason (11 players!), hyping up your favorite player as the next superstar-in-the-making, or even...
Made-up Mailbag: Week 5
Welcome to the fifth installment of the Made-Up Mailbag. This week, I get to pitch to myself underhand and take a victory lap because one of my favorite players to draft in fantasy football finally went off. Q. How do you feel...
Five Hot Takes: NFL Week Five
Quarterbacks, controversies and everything NFL Week Five covered in the first ever iteration of Five Hot Takes. What was Cam Newton thinking? Cam Newton started this season on a tear, playing his best football since his 2015 MVP...
Made-up Mailbag: Week 3
Welcome to the third installment of the Made-Up Mailbag. This week we received an avalanche of mail about the NFL’s wacky week three, so I decided to give the people want they want and dedicate the column to those questions....
Made-Up Mailbag: Week 2
Welcome to the second ever installment of the Made-Up Mailbag. In case you missed last week’s, this is where I take made-up questions and spin them into the real answers you’re looking for. We start with the elephant in the room...
Made-Up Mailbag
Welcome to the first installment of the Made-Up Mailbag. Normally, mailbags are written because they’re an easy way to repeatedly cover a topic, and the author can sit back, relax and let the ideas roll in — all the while...
MLB Teams with aces up their sleeves
What do all of this year’s top contenders for the World Series crown have in common? An ace up their sleeve. 2017 has marked a year of unprecedented offensive output in the MLB. Rumors of “juiced” baseballs have surfaced....
NFL free agency grades
The free agency period in the NFL kicked off with the start of the league year a couple weeks ago on March 9. It was the usual flurry of activity for the first 48 hours and things have since settled down. While teams continue to...
Seven sneaky sleepers to save your bracket
Let me start this article off with full disclosure: March Madness is by most accounts, a full-on crapshoot. Successful brackets have been picked based upon mascots, color schemes, amount of syllables and occasionally have...
NFL Combine winners and losers
This past weekend the 2017 NFL Scouting Combine took place in Indianapolis. Three-hundred and thirty prospects accepted the invite to undergo extensive medical testing and hours of interviews featuring legendarily stupid...
