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After reporting on Northeastern’s decision to drop football last Sunday, today Shira Springer turns her attention to schools that are launching new programs. Here are …
After reporting on Northeastern’s decision to drop football last Sunday, today Shira Springer turns her attention to schools that are launching new programs. Here are …
I found this interesting article about the state of the NBA from Bill Simmons at ESPN. The article is worth a read. I especially like …
Sports betting has been around for a long time with many people visiting their local bookies in order to place a bet on football or …
The Baltimore Sun prints interviews with players each week. This past Sunday the spotlight was on Derrick Mason. Here is my favorite part of the …
Gregg Easterbrook of ESPN knows. It’s greater than one (in absolute value): The NFL’s insistence on asking too much for its channel is yet another …
Interesting story in the Watchdog column of the San Diego Union Tribune about a consultant, Conventions Sports & Leisure International, that has a “record of …
When I picked up my copy of the Chicago Tribune this morning, I had to check to see if it was April Fools Day. There …
Yesterday I posted that the Big XII is an unstable conference, but I thought it unlikely that it would dissolve. Perhaps I was being optimistic, …
CBS college basketball analyst and former coach (Manhattan, Villanova, UMAss), Steve Lappas made this (paraphrased) observation over the weekend: The game has changed. We used …
The NFL claims cities that host the Super Bowl see between $300 to $500 million of influx to their economy. The most talked-about report so …
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