Looking at this University of Michigan football coaching situation, specifically a story we ran in Tuesday’s Sports section, got me thinking of parallels with what has happened at Northern Michigan University the past three years in both the football and hockey programs. If you’ll ...

By STEVE BROWNLEE Journal Sports Editor Some of the gnashing of teeth with the College Football Playoff, mostly about Notre Dame being left out, got me to thinking about some aspects of this story: • Several times I’ve heard TV pundits say it’s really hard, almost impossible, to beat ...

By STEVE BROWNLEE Journal Sports Editor The Detroit Lions might be keeping some pretty elite company — the Philadelphia Eagles, Indianapolis Colts, Pittsburgh Steelers and Minnesota Vikings. For what? Aah, well … none of them might win another game this season. With five weeks left ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...