Finding a happy Patriots fan tonight is harder than finding Jimmy Hoffa in The Meadowlands. But everybody else is ecstatic.
Heartiest congratulations to the New York Giants, 17-14 winners of Super Bowl XLII and spoilers of Cheater Bill’s perfect season. It was a good game, better than the commercials, in fact, and I […]

Please keep BJ’s nephew in your prayers.
JR’s son Jason is a senior in high school. He’s one of the top-rated wrestlers in his weight class in the state. This past week, he took part in a huge regional tournament and finished third. As it turns out, that was just one in a […]

All things considered, it’s been a rough year for sports fans.
Everyone knows certain baseball players were juicing themselves with anabolic steroids while MLB and the Players’ Association turned a blind eye, but until the Mitchell Report came out this past week, I don’t think anyone realized the scope of the cheating.
Bill Belichick and the New […]

Ok, so my heart is broken.  Is there a medical id card for that?
My beloved Mountaineers will not be playing for the National Championship. They lost 13-9 to the Pitt Panthers tonight.
Yes, Pat White dislocated his thumb and sat out about half of the game, and yes, there were a number of questionable calls […]

Well, my beloved Mountaineers are just one more win away from a very likely invitation to the National Championship game in January.
This has been one of the wackiest college football seasons I’ve ever seen.  LSU lost as Number 2, then again as Number 1 (Thanks!), so that opened the door for a lot of other […]

After this weekend’s football games, I’m ready for some serious headache treatment.
First, my Mountaineers set the stage for Top-25 upsets on Friday when they lost to South Florida. My alma mater slipped from Number 5 to Number 13. Of course, six other ranked teams lost, too, so at least the commentators didn’t […]

I guess if you’re going to break your pelvis, you might as well do it while there’s something good to watch on television.
I’m a huge football fan — high school, college, the pros, it doesn’t matter –  and now that the season is officially under way, there’s almost always some game somewhere.
An interesting game this […]

I’ve spent the past two days pretty much glued to ESPN’s coverage of the 2007 NFL draft, and I must admit I’m underwhelmed with the choices my beloved Philadelephia Eagles have made.
The good news, according to Head Coach Andy Reid, is that the selections were actually based on the “best available player” at the time, […]