THE RANT: Dear Facebookers
Dear Facebookers, I’m once again seeing an influx of “repost this status/picture/video if you’re for/against (insert random cause here)” posts. You know, I’m against cancer/bullying/hunger and any other problems you can think of. But at day’s end, bullies don’t care what your status is. Cancer won’t be cured by a post and pictures aren’t feeding […]
COLUMN: BCS needs to look past the SEC
This is a sentiment that has been repeated by many columnists before me and will probably be by many others well into the future: the BCS (EC) has screwed up again. But this year, they’ve reached an almost cartoonish level of super-villainy. They’ve decided the most “exciting and competitive matchup,” to quote their mission statement, […]
COLUMN: Sports moments that define us
I’ve written at great length about what is wrong with sports this semester. Corruption, arrogance and cover-ups are definitely items worthy of attention. But even with all these items, there’s still undoubtedly an upside to organized sports that cannot be measured. HBO and Sports Illustrated are going to attempt to do just that with the […]
COLUMN: Scandals pervade college sports
I never want to hear another person tell me that college football is a pure sport in comparison to professional football. If this argument had been in question the last few years, the Penn State sex abuse scandal has effectively killed it. What has occurred in Happy Valley has the potential to go down as […]
COLUMN: NCAA creating downfall
Ask any baseball historian what the three greatest mistakes in their sport’s history are and all of them will probably give you the same answer. First, laughing off Branch Rickey’s impassioned pleas to change up the sport at the professional level leading to professional football overtaking the sport as the country’s most popular. Second, the […]