Published on: 2nd March, 2010
Pop quiz. Chip Kelly is: a. the most successful former New Hampshire offensive coordinator in history; b. the head football coach of the Oregon Ducks who just won a Pac-10 title in his first year; or b. the worst babysitter in the Pacific Northwest. Turn on Outside the Lines or sports talk radio these days ...Published on: 27th February, 2010
The buzz around the St. Louis Rams and former Oklahoma Sooners quarterback Sam Bradford is building. ESPN's Adam Schefter, who's one of the best when he's focusing on the NFL , says he's "willing to take all bets" that Bradford will be the first pick in the upcoming NFL draft. His ...Published on: 22nd February, 2010
Like many sports junkies, I love the hot stove league. In the days leading up to the NBA trade deadline last week, I was hitting refresh on my browser about every five minutes to find out the latest on rumored deals. There's just something about watching how teams jockey to ...Published on: 6th January, 2010
Why watch? This year's national championship matchup in Pasadena makes for a fitting end to the decade. Look at all of the themes that defined the past 10 years in college football that are involved: -Like USC, Oklahoma, Texas, and Ohio State before it, one of the sport's marquee names, Alabama, is ...Published on: 2nd January, 2010
Now that quarterback Tim Tebow has put a nice little bow on his legend with the best single-game performance of his career in the Florida Gators' demolishing of Cincinnati in Friday night's Sugar Bowl, the time has come to debate his place in the annals of college football history. (For purposes ...Published on: 1st January, 2010
In a season in which mindless mistakes and bad luck often did in the Oklahoma Sooners, OU's 31-27 win over Stanford in the 2009 Brut Sun Bowl provided a refreshing change of pace. Oh, the stupid mental errors–Landry Jones' downright awful interception, Gerald McCoy's boneheaded personal foul in the third quarter–were ...Published on: 31st December, 2009
When accusations like those emanating from Lawrence and Lubbock begin to hit newsstands, the "Grumpy Old Men " invariably come out of the woodwork. You know the type. They walked 10 miles uphill in the snow to school. They ate sawdust soup because it was all they had. Their parents ...Published on: 30th December, 2009
Date: Dec. 31 Time : 2 p.m. EST Venue: Sun Bowl (El Paso, Texas) Vegas Line: OU -10 For a program accustomed to title shots and BCS bowls, a New Year's Eve bowl game seems almost pointless. In fact, given how Oklahoma has been sleepwalking through recent postseasons, it's easy to ...Published on: 27th December, 2009
You know those feel-good holiday movies where all seems lost, but somehow everything works out at the end? The main characters wake up on Christmas morning, there are tons of presents under the tree, all is right with the world and we can finally roll the credits. With today's news that ...Published on: 18th December, 2009
The Oklahoma Sooners coaches' secret is out: They're recruiting another quarterback. And not just any old quarterback either. This one just so happens to be Cameron Newton, the top-rated junior college recruit in the country. Newton, hailing from Atlanta by way of the University of Florida and Blinn College, is one of ...