Think Big, Texas: Field Big 12 and Big Ten Teams!

Published on: 23rd December, 2009

If you pooh-poohed the idea of the University of Texas becoming the 12th Big Ten Conference member, you’re obviously not a Texas-sized thinker.   In fact, I’m wondering why billionaire Longhorns alumni, plus tens of thousands of transplanted Big Ten grads, can’t have their cake and eat it too. All they need ...

Give Jim Tressel That Iowa-Ohio State Game Ball

Published on: 15th November, 2009

Thanks, Coach Tressel, for your rational methodology. The type of thinking that engineered the latest Ohio State victory and allowed thousands like me to start planning a Pasadena vacation.   Oh, I know. Your detractors don’t call it “rational methodology.” To them you’re Mr. Conservative, a title formerly reserved for another Buckeye...the ...

Keep College Football’s Excessive Gloating Penalty!

Published on: 23rd July, 2009

Remember that flick "A League of Their Own?" The one in which Tom Hanks informs his right fielder, “There’s no crying in baseball!” Well, there’s no gloating in college football. At least there shouldn’t be. Nowadays, we fans are guilty of glossing over the gloating. We’ve somehow perverted it into the more ...