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Sports Columns

Cream rising to the top of NFL playoffs

What a first round of action from the NFL last weekend! I realized as I was looking at the results that almost half of this season’s playoff games — six of the 13 — were played on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. There’s four games this weekend, two during the conference championships ...

Green Bay Packers fans, just sit back and relax right now

Isn’t it nice as a Packers’ fan to be able to watch all the wild-card playoff games this weekend with hardly a care in the world? You know you don’t have to fret about your favorite team losing, and you can also be comforted in that Aaron Rodgers is resting his pinky toe and a whole ...

Week 18 not unique to this NFL season

Some pro football pundits have been talking about the unique nature of this week’s games, as it is the first time a Week 18 has ever been held. This extra week on the schedule was necessitated when the league added a 17th game to this year’s season for the first time. One given for ...

Miami Dolphins on a strange journey this season with massive streaks

It intrigued me during the Monday Night Football game this week when the announcers talked about the Miami Dolphins’ unique season that features both a seven-game losing streak and a seven-game winning streak. Since the win streak is still going, it means that number could increase to nine ...

Analytics should be a tool, not a be-all, end-all for football coaches

So if analytics — the use of mathematics to determine the correct strategies for everything in sports — is so great, why hasn’t any “Einstein” won a team championship? I know Major League Baseball has some of these people do well in their front offices, but I’ve heard that the ...

Keep your quarterback upright

All this business with newly injured quarterbacks got me thinking. Watch out when I’m thinking; I’m dangerous, you know. Well not really, probably only to my accuracy in picking, which has been pretty mediocre for awhile. So what I was thinking was how the Green Bay Packers, Baltimore ...