You know, at heart, I'm really an optimistic person. It's hard to spot, I know, as there is this very thick, crusty layer of bitterness and hatred for mankind slathered over that gooey center, but it is there.And then something happens that really shakes that optimism, that makes me think that maybe we really are all too stupid, too ugly, and too violent to ever be what we should be. That maybe that fish that climbed up on to the land a million years ago might just as well have returned to the w
I gotta tell you, I think that the NFL draft may be my favorite thing about the NFL. Seems a little weird, I know; one would think that I might prefer, oh, you know, actual games and things like that, but nope. I love the draft in just about every sport, but the NFL draft is the granddaddy of them all. It's like Christmas. Right now, the NFL combine is going on, and players are being judged on pretty much everything but how well they actually play football. They're being measured, and timed
Last night at the Scottrade Center, University of Memphis basketball fans watched the birth of the Josh Pastner Era.Memphis played Kansas in the regular season game (and rematch of the '09 NCAA championship),
with the Kansas edging the Tigers 57-55.Kansas
was supposed to crush a scorched Memphis team, which has no John
Calipari as head coach, no bench-depth and no big-name talent with a
no-name coach. But the end of the game, Kansas head coach Bill Self had nothing short of relief in his eyes, a
