POSTED BY Dave Aizer, 23 October 2007 | PERMALINK

In just a few short days, the NFL makes its way across the pond and invades England. That's right UK, lock up your women and children, the Giants and Dolphins are coming to town!
Wait, is that right? The Dolphins?? Seriously? This is the best we can do? A winless bunch of scrubs? Look, we don't have many allies left, should we really be burning bridges with our biggest one?
The Dolphins are...
POSTED BY Robert Reid, 23 October 2007 | PERMALINK
WHY WE ALL MUST LOVE IOWA STATE & McDONALD'S UNIFORMS... AND WHY WE MUST NEVER, EVER, RISK BEATING A COLLEGE FOOTBALL 'LOSER OF THE WEEK'

* W I S D O M * O F * T H E * W E E K*
“When you don’t win, you won’t win."
-- Iowa State coach Gene Chizik

If statistics, science and star-alignments are to be trusted, the one thing you don't want to do in this wacky year of college football is...
POSTED BY Kenneth England, 22 October 2007 | PERMALINK
Maybe Leaf wasn't crazy when he attacked Jay Posner in the locker room.
Maybe he was tired of being asked stupid questions by reporters?
On second thought, no, Leaf was just crazy.
I have something important that I want to say to all sports reporters who find themselves in the position of interviewing professional athletes. Not athletes in any particular league, but all...
POSTED BY Adam Aizer ... Proud UM Grad, 18 October 2007 | PERMALINK
So, you don’t care about Miami-FSU this weekend?
Well who needs you? I still care. Big time. This is Miami-FSU, for crying out loud. This is a reminder of what makes college sports so great.
No matter how bad your team sucks – and these two teams totally suck right now – you’ve still got good, old-fashioned college rivalries. This game might as well be the National Championship for...
POSTED BY Kenneth England, 18 October 2007 | PERMALINK

One of the funniest long-standing jokes in modern sports is certainly Steinbrenner's insane circus of managers with the Yankees. I have come to expect insanity regarding this from the Yankees front office (even though it's been a long, relatively calm era under Torre.) I have even come to expect the insane expectations and reactive attitude of the New York media on this issue, so it doesn't...