DEFENSE! DEFENSE! Oops, sorry, I’m just trying to burn into my brain the one facet of the game that the Monday morning quarterbacks on TV seem to either forget or just try to avoid when talking about the strength of teams at the pro or collegiate level. Maybe this is why I have a ...

OK, so apparently we’ve finished with NFL preseason Week 1, so now it’s on to preseason Week 2. That’s my only explanation for all the upsets, let alone crummy play, exhibited in the actual regular season Week 1 of the NFL. With the new trend being to never play any starters ...

This early fall time of the year has to be just about the best time for weather — it’s mild just like in the spring, but without everything being all wet when we’re still trying to get rid of the snow. It’s just that it’s awfully hard to put out of your mind how the cold is just ...

This is going to be a rather odd Super Bowl Sunday on TV. Specifically on WLUC-TV6, since its NBC network will have a full day — as in about 20 to 22 hours — of the Big Game (big enough for me to capitalize it) and the Beijing Winter Olympics. So in observance of that, I’m going to ...

There are a couple ways I thought about starting today’s column, but I’ll begin with the most personal. Well, not really too personal unless you consider a piece of winter clothing as a warm, close companion, which I never have — it’s more something you have to deal with when it’s ...

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 ...