The BCS always got it wrong. Until it didn’t in 2005. By then, it was too late. In 1998, college football entered a brave new world that was supposed to fix the one thing that haunted the sport through the 1990’s — a true national champion. Four times in the…

1993 produced the biggest regular season game and best single day of college football in my entire life. Of course, college football being college football, the sport has ensured that neither ever happens again. What made the 1993 college football season feel so special was the wide variety of teams…

Any time college football hits on a successful formula, you can be sure they will ruin it. I’ve been a college football fan since the age of 6, when the fall of 1988 brought the sport directly into my life. There hasn’t been an autumn since where I wasn’t obsessed…

The Olympics have sucked for a decade now. It’s not all COVID’s fault. Since the tremendously entertaining 2012 London Olympics, the Olympic movement has ground to a halt. The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi were hard to stomach because of their location in Putin’s Russia. The 2018 Winter Olympics suffered…

Everything must be opened! Everything is already open! Everyone dying of COVID is unvaccinated! What about long COVID? The first two months of 2022 has been an absolute disaster when it comes to the media narrative, and thus public perception, of the COVID-19 response. …

For good reason, it seems like our country has collectively forgot the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. To kick off 2022, as the omicron variant ran wild, there has been a bizarre push from the far left and right corners of America’s political spectrum to declare they are…

Phil Mickelson blocked me on Twitter because I said he was a selfish, entitled jerk for taking Saudi blood money. He can block me. But he knows I’m right. Vince McMahon and WWE are in the process of their own sportswashing with Saudi Arabia, as it clears $50 million twice…

I deleted Spotify. More accurately, I finally deleted Spotify. It was a long time coming. I had been paying Spotify monthly for about eight years until, in the wake of the Joe Rogan controversy, I stopped paying. But this isn’t about Joe Rogan. I knew Spotify was paying Joe Rogan…

Most years, I am sick of the Super Bowl talk by Monday of game week. This week, I’m waiting for it to start. On Monday morning, I got up for another remote work day like I’ve started so many others during the pandemic. I made myself coffee. I made myself…