Why Mangini is winning me over
Just a few weeks ago I wrote about how Cleveland Browns head coach Eric Mangini was taking the Browns on a road to nowhere. I laid out arguments about he was an arrogant jerk despite his lack of success in…
Ohio State Buckeyes facing a bleak future if things don’t change
The Ohio State Buckeyes are peering over the ledge of a precipice. At the bottom sits what every Buckeye fan fears – a mediocre football program coupled with year and after year of middle of the pack Big Ten Conference…
Mangini offering Browns road to nowhere
If you’re not a fan of Eric Mangini, get in line. Get in line behind the Browns fans, the Browns players, the local media, the national media, and likely, the Browns front office. This certainly can’t be what Randy Lerner…
Premier League Week 1 Recap
Game of the Week: Tottenham 2 – Liverpool 1. The Sunday afternoon kickoff featured Tottenham’s return to the upper echelon of the Premier League with a convincing 2-1 victory at White Heart Lane. Suddenly, questions are being asked of Liverpool’s…
Liverpool tops my 2009-2010 Premier League Preview
When making Premier League predictions it’s probably much easier to just go with some combination of the top four – Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, and Manchester United – and three relegation candidates. Add in a few Europa League spots for fifth,…
Review: The Man Who Invented Pro Football by George Cantor
Paul Brown’s legacy casts a long shadow into the modern version of professional football. In Paul Brown: The Man Who Invented Pro Football, George Cantor touches on some of Brown’s modern innovations and chronicles his journey through Ohio football from…
Blogging the Buckeyes
Ohio State’s presence in this game is mostly indefensible – they were slaughtered by USC earlier in the season and haven’t performed in the last two BCS Championship games. Yet, here they are facing the other defacto argument against the…
Predictions for 2009
Some random musings on what may transpire in the upcoming year: – The Cleveland Browns hire Scott Pioli (yeah, tough to see this one coming after recent events) but while go with another unproved head coach at the NFL level….