Kurt Warner, Champion.

 
For those of us who love football, today is the day of days, Super Bowl Sunday, and although my team ended it’s run in the Divisional Playoffs, this afternoon you will find me in front of the TV pulling for the Arizona Cardinals (I can’t believe I just wrote that) and in particular, Kurt Warner. [...]

One Mohammad Happy Meal to go, Would you like an Apple Pie with that?

Perhaps as an American and a Christian, I have grown accustomed to reading about images of Jesus or angels appearing on everything from windows to cinnamon rolls, but I’ve had it up to here with the holy crap that occurs every time some cleric from Babulahstan thinks he might possibly see something that even remotely [...]

Time to show Tuberville the door.

The fiasco of Auburn football, that seems to have so suddenly appeared, actually began five years ago and has now metastasized into the debacle we are seeing. With any luck, justice or righteousness, we are finally beginning to see the long overdue end of the Tommy Tuberville era on the Plains.  Yes, I know, he has won quite [...]

Vince Young Keeps Tradition in Titans Win

Although he failed to make the trip to Cincinnati with his teammates to watch the Titans dismantle the Bengals 24-7, Vince Young stayed in “game mode” as he watched the game with his friends at the Happy Dayz Learning Center in Franklin. After watching Kerry Collins lead the team in their first scoring drive, VY [...]

Skip Caray – Humor…

 
“The bases are loaded again, and I wish I was, too.”
 
The call Skip used until Ted Turner made him quit saying it: “We’ve come to the bottom of another fifth.”
 
Braves up by 16. Biggio (late in the game) singles. “Sit tight, folks. a long one here and suddenly we’re in a 14 run game.”
In the [...]

Thank you, Skip Caray.

I have always enjoyed listening to baseball on radio much more than watching it on television, it just seems that the game fits that medium best. Unlike most, if not all, other sports, baseball provides time for announcers to inject themselves into the broadcast and tailor them with their own style and personality and perhaps that is why radio has held [...]

Little Known College Football Traditions

As we prepare for CFB season, its time to take a look into some of the little known traditions at our favorite schools:
 
1.     Auburn and Clemson. In addition to sharing the same nickname, coaches (see John Heisman and Cliff Ellis), the same town -ok, Clemson has a lake..but Auburn has an animal husbandry building-, these [...]

Losing a Legend

                 
College basketball bid farewell to a giant this week and left a void that will be very hard to fill. Bob Knight quietly resigned after a stellar 42 years of coaching at Army, Indiana and Texas Tech, and for those of us who enjoyed basketball in its best form, the game lost a lot of [...]

To Ernie, Skip & Pete…Farewell, and Thanks.

      
Today, I say goodbye to a group of friends I have never met, friends who don’t know that I exist, yet were in my home for the last 30 years.  The voices of Ernie, Skip and Pete were, and are, as familiar to me as the voices of my children and I will miss them. [...]

Bama Shows It’s (cl)ASS…again.

Well, the honeymoon’s over in Tuscaloosa. As a good friend stated so eloquently on www.thesportsbean.com (check the archives section), Bama fans gave Nick Saban four games to win the National Championship, he didn’t and things are back to normal in “T-town.” After Georgia scored the winning touchdown in overtime, the Tide faithful showered the visiting Bulldog players [...]