At the risk of beating a dead horse — or as the PETA people would like me to say, feeding a fed horse — I want to revisit the go-for-the-win two-point conversion argument just one more time in football. Mainly because I’m going to argue against myself here. Philosophically, I’ve ...
Seattle is a truly beautiful place. It’s one of the rare places in the country that gives you the excitement and bustle of a big city, but also can satisfy the nature lover in you with both mountains and the ocean nearby. However, when you think of Seattle, hockey is probably not the ...
Change is good. It may not seem like it all the time and sometimes it can take years, or even decades, for things to adapt. However, in the end, things always seem to work out for the better. Now it’s time for change to happen again for Division I college football. There have been major ...
There have been lots of sports movies made over the years and almost every sports fan seems to have opinions about them. Some are classic tales that still resonate today like “Field of Dreams,” “The Natural,” “Remember the Titans,” “Miracle,” “Hoosiers” and “A League of Their Own.” Others are just goofball comedies with quotable lines can still make you laugh years later like “Major League,” “Slap Shot,” “Happy Gilmore,” “The Mighty Ducks,” “Dodgeball,” “The Sandlot” and yes, even “Space Jam.” With the release of “Creed II” ...
Thanksgiving is the one of the few days of the year where images pop into our minds. There’s terrible football, potatoes, both sweet and mashed, leaves crunching underneath your feet (or in the case of the Upper Midwest, mounds of snow), turkey, cranberries that flow beautifully out of ...
Sometimes when one writes a football picks piece for the newspaper, it’s easy to forget that, well, people will be reading it. And while feedback on the column isn’t all that common, it’s often negative, as in “why don’t you pick my team?” or “why DO you pick my team?” (Yes, I have been called a jinx.) So it’s lovely to receive a positive reaction. So thank you to Nick, age 12, and his grandmother, Gail, for reaching out to tell me they’re enjoying my return to the Armchair Quarterback world. That definitely made my week. This has been fun, but I am hoping the ...
