Billy Paultz Reconsidered

Michigan made a great hire, it says here, better than Les Miles would have been. Rich Rodriguez can coach, he can recruit, and he’s a master of the spread-option offense, the simplest and most effective way to play college football right now.
Supposedly Rodriguez was already on the phone to Terrell Pryor, the QB of Pennsylvania […]

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The Mitchell Report on steroids, the latest major salvo in baseball’s longstanding public-relations war against itself, will be made public about 12 hours from now.
Journalists who’ve seen the report or talked to people who have say upwards of 100 players will be named as abusers of performance-enhancing substances. Mitchell had no subpeona power, and the report […]

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The following piece came in, unsolicited, from two local guys, Dan Murray and Marc Hondares. It advocates an idea that, I think, has some merit…
I’d be happy to do more of this, by the way. Send me stuff, and I might use it. I also might not, but it’d be fun to turn this blog into a […]

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Tim Tebow should and apparently will be given the Heisman Trophy Saturday.
Even though it goes far beyond the numbers they’re staggering- 29 touchdowns passing and 22 running, 838 rushing yards (nearly 1,000 if, as the NFL does, you count sacks as passing yardage), 260 passing yards a game. He’s completed 69 percent of his throws […]

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So the Patriots got caught cheating three months ago, and their reaction - their coaches’ reaction in particular - was to turn this season into a crusade to stick it to the world and show everybody. This has led to the unsavory spectacle of guys ecstatically spiking the ball after touchdowns that put their team […]

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