This just in: Continuing their fine work Sunday through Friday, the ND football team achieved a fifth straight semester with a team average G.P.A of over 3.0. Prior to Charlie's tenure at ND, the highest team GPA (since such numbers were recorded '92) was 2.91. Sticking with the academic theme, Notre Dame was awarded the 2007 American Football Coaches Association's Academic … [Read more...] about ND wins again … off the field
Archives for January 2008
Basking in the Glow of Big Blue and Calling Out Big D
7 plays. 71 yards. :46. Now that’s why I watch sports! I’m still shaking my head in disbelief. Possibility exists the Giants have never been that efficient on offense - not in Super Bowl XXI when Simms performed like a surgeon, not when they ran a fourteen play drive over the first 9:29 of the second half in Super Bowl XXV, not when they thrashed the Vikings in the ’01 NFC … [Read more...] about Basking in the Glow of Big Blue and Calling Out Big D
Packers Journal Entry: Playoff Football at Lambeau
Playoff football at Lambeau means more than football. Hope all enjoyed Favre and the Pack's performance. 4:05 – Much to my surprise the game started close to the announced time. I leisurely finished watching the UCLA / Washington St. game, stayed tune to find out the next matchup on FSN – Cal / Oregon State, and missed the kickoff; tuned in just in time to see Ryan Grant … [Read more...] about Packers Journal Entry: Playoff Football at Lambeau
Do Coaches Ever Find Greener Grass?
by Paul Casey Gotham Here I am in Upstate New York finding myself thinking of greener grass. Maybe it’s the recent ‘heat wave’ of sorts – back-to-back 60 degree days in January (hard to argue with Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’) - that’s got me considering the yard work. Of course it’s not the literal grass I ponder, rather the figurative ‘greener grass’ that college … [Read more...] about Do Coaches Ever Find Greener Grass?
Coughlin has earned his due
He might have been born in Waterloo, New York, but Tom Coughlin knows a little what the California fires must feel like. No disrespect meant to the fine people of the Golden State; Tom Coughlin has known nothing but heat since he took his job as head coach of the New York Giants. Now he deserves the respect he has earned. When Coughlin came to town the G-Men were a bumblin’, … [Read more...] about Coughlin has earned his due