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Sports Columns

Armchair Quarterback: No NFL team plays really well all the time

Although it might seem pretty straightforward how awful it is when a team like the Philadelphia Eagles or New York Giants blows a big lead and loses at the very end of their games — like both did Sunday — it also says something about the teams pulling off the comebacks. In those games it ...

Time to copy soccer introductions with little kids?

By STEVE BROWNLEE Journal Sports Editor In flipping around on TV to various sporting events, I sometimes catch when soccer teams come out onto the field before their games. If you’ve also seen that, have you ever noticed how the players and coaches from both teams come out of the same ...

Armchair Quarterback: Fire your coach and make my day

By STEVE BROWNLEE Journal Sports Editor Watching all these coaches at major college football programs getting fired made me think about how wonderful all this churning — this mixing up — of coaches makes me feel good. No, not good about the coaches, nor about their teams. I think ...

De-emphasize the importance of a single game

By STEVE BROWNLEE Journal Sports Editor With the World Series just ending the other day, it got me to thinking about comparisons between baseball and football, specifically in pro sports. Unlike the Major League Baseball regular season, we concentrate intently on each single baseball game ...

Competitive NFL makes good predictions tough

Shouldn’t it be a good thing that it’s hard to predict these NFL games? I think so when it comes time to watch them, that’s for sure. But trying to write this column, it sure leaves me at various times scratching my head, sucking the end of my pen (nah! way too unsanitary!) or just ...

Players hesitate more than they loaf

When the TV figureheads were talking about various teams, I got to thinking about players said to look like they’re loafing or not really caring during games. I find that hard to believe that’s what they’re actually doing. When it comes to that supposed behavior, me thinks, these are ...