Sports is big business.  I can hear you now, we’ll duh, tell us more genius.  Most owners of major sports franchises are billionaires and they didn’t get to be billionaires without finding a way to get others to pay most of their expenses whether that’s in the form of ticket prices, concessions, or in-stadium advertising. […]

About Midnight on Monday, what started in the heat of August will be over and we will officially be without college football for 9 long months.  It’s Championship weekend for College Football’s top two Divisions headlined by the College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday Night in Tampa.  It’s a rematch of last year’s game, […]

The third version of the College Football playoff takes over New Years Eve again this year.  Next year, the semi-finals will actually be played on New Years Day as the Rose Bowl hosts one of the two semi-final games.  This year’s version matches top seed Alabama and 4th seed Washington in the first game in […]

If you’ve paid any attention this week, then you’ve no doubt heard the story that Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey and LSU’s Leonard Fournette have decided that they won’t participate in their respective teams upcoming bowl games.  Just yesterday, Baylor Running Back Shock Linwood announced he also would not play in his team’s bowl game. In the […]

One of the first things you learn at any Journalism school, even what was at the time a pretty poor one like I attended, is that most things make news because they are unusual.  Of course, defining unusual is difficult at times because what is normal?  Everyone is odd in their own way. This week […]

There is one final regular season College Football game this weekend, the annual Army-Navy game in Baltimore.  I’m not going to spend much time on it because it doesn’t require much time.  It’s a great atmosphere, but it hasn’t been a great game in a while.  Army has been mostly dreadful for the last decade […]

It’s Championship Weekend in College Football for most Conferences.  There are only 16 games this weekend, and 8 of those are “official” Conference Championship Games.  In reality however there are 9 championship games as the Big 12 got lucky and the regular season finale matching Oklahoma and Oklahoma State is actually for the conference championship […]

For most of the nation’s 128 FBS teams, this is the final weekend of the Regular Season.  There are still some Big-12 regular season games next weekend (like Oklahoma and Oklahoma State for the Big-12 title) as well as a handful of games in the SunBelt Conference, but with conference championship games scheduled in the […]

Chances are pretty strong that unless you keep up with College Football closely or have lived in East Tennessee, you’ve never heard the name Ken Sparks.  Rest assured, the close knit coaching fraternity of College Football knows who he is This week after 37 seasons 338 wins against just 99 losses and two ties, Sparks […]

Before we move into football this weekend, let’s do two things.  First, the most important and thank all of those who have served in the military on this Veterans Day.  It cannot be understated how much of debt of gratitude we owe this country’s brave men and women who volunteer to protect this Country’s safety […]