Losing an idol

In December, 1992, I was sitting in the sports room of WRC-TV in Washington D.C.  That night I was assigned to watch a basketball game between the Charlotte Hornets and the Atlanta Hawks.  There were many people like me in the room — eager, young, hungry college type kids who wanted a break in the [...]

Two things: Tiger and the Irish

Imagine the inside of the clubhouse at a major golf tournament.  Inside the locker room, several random PGA golfers are sitting around, chewing the fat.  Here’s what part of the conversation might sound like:
Golfer 1:  “Hey did any of you guys see the babe that Tiger was with last night?”
Golfer 2:  “No!  What’d she look [...]

Fans should know their place

There is a report that a deranged Notre Dame fan took a swipe at Jimmy Clausen as he was leaving a South Bend restaurant.  Clausen was having dinner with his family and apparently some unruly Irish fan decided to take his frustrations on the Notre Dame troubles out on its quarterback in front of his [...]

Monday’s Random Thoughts

Can anyone tell me why Iowa St. is still in the Big 12?  Maybe they should team up the Cyclones with Vanderbilt, Northwestern, and Washington St. in the same conference.  All are the traditional doormats of their respective conferences.
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Nebraska finally won a big game.  The Huskers beat Missouri on national television last Thursday night.  Still, the [...]

Celebrations run amok

During Saturday’s LSU-Georgia game, there were 2 penalties called for illegal celebration.  One on Georgia wide receiver A.J. Green and LSU running back Charles Scott.  The the one of Green turned out to be a key penalty to give LSU good field position to score the game’s winning tradition.  The Bulldogs could not take advantage [...]

Random Thoughts

So much to talk about, I have to do another random thought segment.  This might just turn into a weekly thing every Monday.
Iowa looked really good on Saturday.  I did not realize that Arizona had such a good offense but the Hawkeyes do have a good defense.  The Wildcats did not score an offensive touchdown [...]

Random Thoughts

We just had our first full week of football.  That is high school, college and pro in the same weekend.  Here’s a few observations:
The favorite to win the MRAC right now is East.  The Black Raiders nearly upset Indianola last Thursday, only losing in overtime.  I have to give Bob Goodvin a ton of credit [...]

College Football Week One Thoughts

If every week of the college football season is like this past week, I am going to be out of breath.  A lot happened this Labor Day weekend and here are a few observations:
I was listening to Gary Dolphin and Ed Podalak during the Iowa-UNI game.  Just before the first field goal attempt at the end of [...]

Farve looks weird in purple

Imagine Ted Williams playing for the New York Yankees.  Imagine Dick Butkus playing for the Green Bay Packers.  Imagine Jackie Robinson playing for the New York/San Francisco Giants (that last one almost happened).
Brett Farve is now playing for the Minnesota Vikings.  For 16 years, Viking fans were used to hating this man.  #4 was the [...]

Random Thoughts

Who the heck is Y.E. Yang?
I was watching the PGA Championship most of this past weekend asking that question.  He won the Honda Classic earlier this year — as if anybody noticed.  Entering the final round of the PGA on Sunday, Yang was paired with Tiger Woods.  Everybody expected Yang to wilt and wang and [...]