The Gould Standard: Big Ten, SEC Poised to Monopolize College Football’s Big-Box Playoff
Is the new Cheaper-By-the-Dozen playoff a trick or a treat for the regular season? Depends on whether you liked the… Read more »
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College football website kicks off
During my career as a sportswriter at the Chicago Sun-Times, I was privileged to go behind the scenes. I… Read more »
Lovie Smith hire makes Illini relevant before a game is played
Go ahead, Illini Nation. Get excited. You deserve it after a seemingly endless stream of bad news coming out of… Read more »
A few tips, Josh, for guiding the Illini ship
Now what? The athletic-director’s chair that Josh Whitman will sit in is like a tiny boat swirling around in a… Read more »
Josh Whitman the right guy at the right time at Illinois
I’m very pleased to see that Josh Whitman will become Illinois’ new athletic director. He’s what you’d call. . …. Read more »
`Lost’ Super Bowl I video isn’t really lost. . . The NFL is.
Count me among those who were very interested to watch when the NFL Network announced it would air “Super Bowl… Read more »
Super Bowl, regular guys: Memories of covering the 1985 Bears
My favorite thing about the ’85 Bears? Aside from the way they dominated opponents with such a fun, dramatic style?… Read more »
You can have Brady & Manning. I’ll take Unitas & Starr
I’m sure it’s a generational thing. But all this yakking about Tom Brady and Peyton Manning leaves me cold. Great… Read more »
Alabama, St. Nick grab fourth title in seven years
GLENDALE, Ariz.—Nick Saban cringes at comparisons to Paul “Bear’’ Bryant. “First of all, Bear Bryant has to be the greatest… Read more »
Alabama? Again? Yup.
PHOENIX—Back in the day, my old softball buddy Mike Royko often mentioned a phrase he had heard from an old… Read more »
