And they [I] call this the Dead Zone. While the grim months of July and August still lie ahead with its promise of a steady diet of cooking shows, mostly unsuccessful attempts to find something on History worth watching and [gasp] reading books, June has turned into about the busiest sports-viewing month ever. This is [...]

Got World Cup fever yet? If you haven’t yet contracted this strange malady that seems to sweep the rest of the world every four years while barely registering a blip in the United States, you are not alone. But, there are some of us who have at least experienced World Cup sniffles. I must confess [...]

Expansion War II ended late on Monday, June 14, 2010. Warring parties agreed to a settlement that will allow Texas to annex other Big X schools and cause a Longhorn Curtain to descend around the remnants of the former Big XII. Averted was a general nuclear conflagration that threatened all of college athletics and promised [...]

This Dead Zone appears to be anything but. There seems to be a sporting event held once every four years that is a fairly big deal to all parts of the world except for this one. The World Cup competition again attempts to convince a skeptical North American sporting public that soccer is indeed a [...]

The ACC held its annual baseball tournament this past weekend in Greensboro. As is usually the case, I decided that if the conference was going to hold championships less than an hour from my house, the least I could do was go. It was an enjoyable time. The baseball gathering had been moved from Fenway [...]