I’ve got a right only pain in my lower back and in my right knee. No I’ve not been running around town after all the hunky twenty year old’s, not have I been flat on my back with my legs in the air, worse luck. I’m sure my days of having helium heels are pretty [...]

Arkansas junior running back Dennis Johnson is out for the foreseeable future after suffering a “bowel injury” during the Razorbacks’ 31-7 win against Louisiana-Monroe last Saturday. You know the queasy, stomach-churning feeling you a crotch punch or kick? Well multiply that by a factor of ten. The injury required Johnson to undergo emergency surgery shortly after the [...]

We often hear football analysts warn us non-football types not to read too much into what happens in the preseason. And while these analysts make some valid points, I often think to myself not how important practice is, but how important it is to practice perfectly.

Anyone who has ever coached anything from little league to the [...]

James Madison, a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) school, stunned the 13th-ranked Virginia Tech Hokies 21-16 at Blacksburg Saturday continuing an early season trend of ACC football futility. It’s just the second week of the season and already we’ve seen five FCS schools beat FBS schools. ACC Big Losers In the opening weekend ACC heavyweights North Carolina and [...]

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Auburn quarterback Cam Newton was once known as the heir apparent to wonder boy Tim Tebow at Florida, but since he liked other people’s laptops better than his own, and steroid Jesus was ahead of him on the depth chart, Newton decided — after being suspended — to take his talents to Blinn Junior College [...]

5 on the fifth ,   here we are again,  another month done,  and already  time for the monthly posting of 5 on the fifth,  a wonderful,  delightful idea from Stephen Chapman’s  The State Of The Nation UK blog. Basically,   y ou take 5 photographs on the 5th of the month (or the days leading up to the [...]

Something’s been missing for a little over a month. Oh…wait…that’s me at the gym. Or doing exercise of any kind. I have a million excuses, one of which is actually even really good. But that’s exactly what they are: excuses. So it seems I can “talk the talk” but not “walk the walk.” This really [...]