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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 ...

Could colleges trade their players?

Watching a bunch of the MACtion games — you know, the midweek Mid-American Conference football games that were on TV from about mid-October to mid-November — it got me to thinking about the transfer portal and how easily players can move around. Not only from year to year, but heck, I ...

Let’s cluster the bye weeks in the NFL

Being in the middle of the bye “season” in the NFL, I started thinking about how all the teams’ off weeks are so spread out. Doesn’t seem fair if you get one early and your closest competition is just now getting a chance to take theirs. This season, the byes are spread out between ...

Time to calm down, everybody

Maybe in this election season — that MAY be over in five short days, or may have a long ways to go if some of the strange things that happened in 2020 happen again — we’re all getting too sensitive on one hand, too amped up on the other. Watching the national sports TV shows earlier ...