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Sports Columns

I don’t want a cute, warm & cuddly Super Bowl champion!

It’s that time of the year — again. Time for the Super Bowl. This year, everyone is hating on the Kansas City Chiefs, apparently for a lot of reasons. Some people don’t like any team hogging all the success year after year, after all, no team has ever won three Super Bowls in a row ...

Detroit Red Wings win 3-2 at Edmonton Oilers in shootout

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Dylan Larkin tied it in the second period and scored in a shootout to help the Detroit Red Wings beat the Edmonton Oilers 3-2 on Thursday night. Lucas Raymond also scored for the Red Wings in the tiebreaker, while Connor McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins failed on ...

Who will be the healthiest?

Injuries, injuries, injuries. It always seems to make a lot of difference this time of year, but does it seem worse this year as the status of key players on multiple teams seems to change from day to day? I’ve been hearing about various Philadelphia Eagles players being in, out or ...

Of Brett Favre lookalikes and a team’s bad decision

While I was watching the Sugar Bowl on Thursday — the College Football Playoff game played in New Orleans that had to be delayed a day due to the terrorist truck attack on New Year’s morning — I saw Notre Dame’s quarterback on the field. I thought, “Wait a minute! That looks like a ...