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As most of you are aware, the San Francisco 49ers ended their season in dramatic fashion, losing the NFC Championship Game in overtime to the New York Giants due to a turnover on special teams and a subsequent field goal . Since the 49ers had won many of their games in the same . . . → Read More: Not Quite Good Enough: A Postscript on the 49ers, By Chuck Strom This is the greatest thing I’ve seen in quite a while. The fitness comedy monologue at the end, delivered by an impossibly young Alan Thicke, is just icing on a dancing beefy cake: Go here. Miracles follow wherever he goes… http://www.11alive.com/rss/article/221270/5/Tim-Tebow-racks-up-some-miraculous-316-stats We’re in the second week of January and America has yet to crown the national champion. And the Rose Bowl Parade took place on January 2. My response will be brief, but could be a graduate thesis. The Illinois/UCLA game was emblematic of numerous problems. I forget the name of the bowl game in . . . → Read More: What Is Wrong With College Football? By Mark Erickson Go here. I’m old enough to remember when this was played regularly on the radio. I also used to sing it to my oldest son when he got interested in basketball. You don’t get songs like this any more. Cheech and Chong were creative and actually ignited thinking in people. Commercial radio won’t touch that level . . . → Read More: Cheech and Chong – Basketball Jones, By Holly Homan
I had a fine time watching last weekend’s Montana-related playoff games, though the Sam Houston State/MSU blowout was rather painful at times, due to the Bobcats tossing away several good opportunities to at least keep the game close. Perhaps the Griz will fare quite a bit better tonight…. Full story is here. I grew up in Eugene, so the Ducks were always present in some way, although I was more of a basketball fan. During the ’74-’75 season my walls were covered with posters of the “Kamikaze Kids.” Football games were freezing bores I had to sit through with my parents. I was only an official . . . → Read More: Go Ducks! Down With Rude Husky Fans! By Kathleen Wilson There was a notorious crash here in Portland in the early morning hours of December 3, 2011 wherein Ndamukang Suh, a professional football player, was driving. One passenger was hurt. Seattle musician, Davin Michael Stedman, a member of Staxx Brothers saw the accident and says in this article that Suh, the driver, watched too . . . → Read More: Ndamukang Suh “Watched Too Much ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ as a Boy” Says Musician Who Witnessed the NFL Star’s Car Crash In 1989, Pedophilia State University head football coach Joe Paterno wrote a book called “By the Book.” How telling, in retrospect. In the strictest sense, Coach Paterno adhered to his legal requirement by reporting to his supervisor the anal rape of a 10 year old child by Paterno’s longtime friend and coworker. Perhaps Coach . . . → Read More: WWJD: What Would Joe Do? By Mark Erickson When it comes to sports, it’s the NFL’s world. All the other leagues just live in it. While the NBA and MLB hope and pray that at least one East Coast big-market team goes deep into their playoffs in order to generate fan interest, the NFL can match up bottom-feeders from such trendy cities . . . → Read More: The 49ers Are Back, and They Have Saved the NFL (At Least For Me) By Chuck Strom When I heard that Moneyball was being made into a movie, I wondered how a book about the inside business of baseball and the arcane subject of sabermetrics could ever translate into something that could be watched on a screen for two hours. I thought it would never work. Now that I’ve seen the . . . → Read More: Moneyball and the 2011 San Francisco Giants By Chuck Strom |
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