Imagine that you put in your time and hard-earned gas money to locate an area that holds quail or chukar. Then imagine that you make the long drive to that newfound honey hole and begin hunting only to learn that your every move is being closely monitored and copied by an SUV full of yahoos you don’t know from Adam.
Six minutes, 17 seconds.
Jim Rogers has the right idea. If you want to be any good in today’s Bowl Championship Series landscape of college football, you buy the chicken first and then hope it can produce the golden egg.
Mike Sanford was not a college football head coach.
Always propped up and praised for his higher intelligence, New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick found himself in an odd position Sunday — being fitted for a dunce cap by the talking heads of the national media. But it’s not as simple as that, so this being the NFL, the play call in question is now under further review.
It is in Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s corner now. It is up to him.
Freddie Roach was worried. He had watched Miguel Cotto’s earlier fights on film, watched the power and skill and confidence of a world champion, watched him cut off the quickness of Shane Mosley like a coyote might a jack rabbit’s attempt at escape, watched the jabs and uppercuts and counters and that thunderous left hook.
A razor-thin line separates the NFL’s top teams, but no coach is more cutting edge than Bill Belichick. His game-management decisions and defensive schemes are almost always sharp.
Without a doubt this year’s Breeders’ Cup was the most memorable ever because of one horse, Zenyatta. Her riveting win over 11 males in the Classic has to move into everyone’s top five races of all time.
It’s debatable if there’s a luckier guy alive than Hugh Hefner. If there’s a college football coach luckier than Alabama’s Nick Saban right now, who is it?
To my surprise, several anglers already were lining the pond bank when I pulled into the parking lot at Veterans Memorial Park in Boulder City on Friday. I figured there would be some fishing pressure, but I wasn’t expecting to see that many people on a weekday.
Jerry Tarkanian remembers Utah, how that NCAA Tournament regional semifinal in 1977 came down to a block-charge call that could have gone either way.
Even when Peyton Manning falls short of perfection, the Indianapolis Colts still win. Sometimes they win with ease and occasionally, as we’ve seen the past two weeks, they do it ugly.
Survival mode doesn’t know opponents. It doesn’t care about records, assess skill, wonder how and why those crouching opposite it arrived at this moment.
Inconsistency has been an obvious trait of the Arizona Cardinals this season. If the personality of a football team is perplexing, the quarterback is often the reason, and Kurt Warner is an example.
