Before Justin Boren and Kurt Wermers get more of a platform to blast the University of Michigan football program, let’s put out a few logical facts that get very little media attention. Both of these guys are big offensive linemen who don’t fit the demands of Rich Rodriguez’s blocking scheme. They would need to be [...]
By Peter Mathews – July 14, 2009 “The Yankee Years” by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci Doubleday. 482 pages. Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci’s book with Joe Torre is a self-serving, second-guessing attempt at slanting the record straight for what Torre might describe as a very successful eleven year reign as Yankee manager. Unfortunately, there were [...]
By Joe Brian – July 13, 2009 They are fourteen games above .500 and three games behind their nemesis Red Sox, whom they simply can’t beat. They are also owned by the Los Angeles, California Angels and showing signs of age, particularly in their fire-in-the-belly furnace of Jeter, Posada and Rivera. The ownership and front [...]
Rutgers finished 8-5 last year after an almost disasterous 1-5 start. They finished 5-2 in the Big East and continued their string without a Big East conference crown. They won the bottom of the bowls, the Papa John’s.com Bowl, against North Carolina State 29-23, largely because the Wolfback QB was forced out of action for [...]
Roger Goodell can take his good old time trying to shake the “I can do anything I want” out of Pac Man, Michael Vick and Plaxico Burress. Bud Selig can posture about clamping down on performance enhancers and put a pin in the hubris balloons carried by Roger, Sammy and Mark. But nobody can regulate [...]
