Category Archives: sports

Missouri, Alabama, and College Football’s New Role

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Steve Burns

“It’s hard to rally around a math class.” — Bear Bryant, on football’s role on campus. Football can be classified as a game or sport. And in the South, it has been called a religion. Now, it has become a … Continue reading →

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Deflategate Leaves Me Deflated

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Steve Burns

It’s not that Tom Brady was on a wanted poster, or was caught on a TMZ video. And it’s not like game-deciding incidents occurred during the activities by New England Patriots employees during the so-called Deflategate controversy in January.

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College Football Playoff: Championship Weekend Matchups, Results

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Steve Burns

Updated Dec. 7 The most critical weekend of the 2014 college football season has arrived. The now-completed conference championship games and other key matchups will determine pairings for the new College Football Playoff (CFP).

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Is Ray Rice Fallout PR, Journalism, or … ?

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Steve Burns

jour·nal·ism: the activity or job of collecting, writing, and editing news stories for newspapers, magazines, television, or radio The above definition of “journalism”, albeit brief, was excerpted from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary on 12/4/14, by yours truly.

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College Football Playoff Hunt: Next Stop, Conference Championships

Posted on November 30, 2014 by Steve Burns

Note: This post was updated Dec. 6 with Oregon’s victory over Arizona in the Pac 12 title game, and other key games of Dec. 6. The Thanksgiving weekend 2014 results are in, and the conference championship matchups are set. However, … Continue reading →

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SEC Football Schedule, Info for Thanksgiving Weekend

Posted on November 27, 2014 by Steve Burns

UPDATE, 11/28/14: Missouri defeats Arkansas, 21-14, becoming the 2014 SEC East champion. Thanksgiving turkey and trimmings will barely be digested before a frantic and crucial weekend of Southeastern Conference football will begin on Friday (Nov. 28, 2014). The developments:

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SEC Title Race Goes Into Thanksgiving Weekend

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Steve Burns

Nothing has been simple as far as the Southeastern Conference football race in 2014. And that will hold through Thanksgiving weekend, the final regular season weekend for SEC teams. As many as three games — Arkansas at Missouri, Mississippi State … Continue reading →

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Have I ‘Brought In Fences’? Have You?

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Steve Burns

A recent news item jumped out at me: The New York Mets will be bringing in the fences at Citi Field, their home park. First, this highlights one of baseball’s idiosyncrasies — the fact that not all the playing fields … Continue reading →

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Florida-Georgia: Reviewing the 2014 Rout

Posted on November 2, 2014 by Steve Burns

It wasn’t that long ago in the Florida-Georgia rivalry that the cleats were on the other foot, so to speak. Under coaches Steve Spurrier, Ron Zook and Urban Meyer, the Gators dominated the Bulldogs from 1990-2010, winning all but three … Continue reading →

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