As the late great Mike Royko once said, some things you wonder, some things you think, and some things you just know. And after a couple days in South Beach, I wonder if I’m going to get “Beachfront Avenue!” out of my head any time soon. If this game showed us anything, it’s the importance…
The Heisman Criteria: The Heisman Memorial Trophy annually recognizes the outstanding college football player whose performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity. Big Game Performance: Manti Te’o had is biggest games against the best opponents on the schedule with key interceptions and stops against Stanford, USC, Oklahoma, Michigan State and Michigan, in the…
As we shiver in the cold, we now enter the 40 days of waiting, at the end of which will be a glorious day of resurrection. While it’s not the usual one Catholic folks expect, the 19 years between national title attempts certainly has been more excruciating than the worst Lent I can remember, so…
(The Rock Report) – 2012 will go down as a season with some of the ugliest scores since the 60s. 20-17, 13-6, 20-13(ot), 17-14, 29-26(ot), 22-13… wretchedly ugly when viewed on a schedule, but so, so beautiful when you also see the heart behind the score. During this unbeaten run it seemed as if a…
Just when we thought we were out of conference re-alignment, the B1G once again attempts to pull us back in. Yesterday, the University of Maryland announced their move to the Formerly-Known-As-Integer conference. While the reasoning behind this move is no secret, it seems the deliberative process behind the move was much more so. And it…