POSTED BY Matt Marquez, 27 November 2007 | PERMALINK

Tragedies like Sean Taylor's death are a wake-up call for pasty, coach-potato sports fans like myself. It's easy for us Morlocks to forget that professional athletes are more than just highlight reels and stat sheets (and rap sheets). We get so caught up in scanning box scores for our fantasy stats that we forget that after a game these guys go home to their families and loved ones and deal...
POSTED BY Robert Reid, 26 November 2007 | PERMALINK

LET'S NOT PLAY GAMES WITH WORDS ANYMORE — MAYBE COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS OUTRIGHT WAR?
Seeing a #1 Tigers fall and another Tigers vault to #1 got me to thinking. Why do 'rebel states' have such a fondness for sharing mascots? The SEC is the only conference with matching team names, happening not twice, but four times: Georgia and Miss State Bulldogs, Auburn and LSU Tigers. Tigers, meanwhile,...