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Sports Columns

Whole new look to the NFL season in Detroit, Green Bay

We’re on the verge of a brand-new NFL season and the Detroit Lions — the Lions? — get to kick it off tonight with a game at the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs. As they mention in a TV commercial from a few years back, “Say what?!?!” Yes, it is a whole new world ...

Put ‘ultra’ in front of competitive for Sunday’s NFL playoff games

There’s a couple ways to look at this ultracompetitive conference championship round in the NFL playoffs. There weren’t any real upsets in last weekend’s divisional round, which is a good thing in that it pretty much leaves only the best four teams in the league still ...

The most wonderful time of the year? The divisional round of the NFL playoffs!

I’ve already heard that the upcoming weekend is the best of the year in sports. It’s the divisional round of the NFL playoffs! I’ll have to give some thought as to whether this is THE best weekend in sports — I thought the Nick Baumgartner week was pretty fine last February — but ...

A chance to start over for 14 NFL teams begins this weekend — the playoffs

This crazy 2022 regular season is over and what do we have to show for it? Neither the Packers nor the Lions are in the playoffs. Still, though, these playoffs should prove to be interesting even as most of us will only be interested observers. Who will prove to be the best quarterback ...

NFL knows how to schedule

Don’t tell anybody you know — no, forget that, anybody I know — but I like what the NFL is doing with its scheduling in the aftermath of the Damar Hamlin serious injury and cancellation of the Buffalo at Cincinnati game on Monday night. First off, the league canceled the game rather ...