It’s Super Bowl Week, with the countdown beginning for Sunday’s kickoff of Super Bowl 56 in a game that pits the scampish underdog Cincinnati Bengals against the glamorous but annoying Los Angeles Rams. Most Bengal fans will be watching the game in Cincinnati and...
I’m not ready to pick a winner in Super Bowl 56, a game pitting the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals that won’t be played until Feb. 3. But I have to start warming up at some point, so I’ll begin the process by doing some stretching today. The Current Betting...
Tom Brady’s retirement is official, and we’d have to write 50,000 words to cover all of his accomplishments as a quarterback, and as a winner. The individual statistics and honors are incredible, but I’ll leave that alone right now. The winning defined Brady’s career...
Leftover thoughts from an AFC-NFC Championship Sunday: 1) As it turns out, the narrative was premature and overly enthusiastic: “Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen are the new Brady vs. Manning.” I plead guilty to hyperventilating over the irresistible angle. Joe Burrow...
The LA Rams made a winner out of Stan Kroenke with a fourth-quarter comeback to wrestle the NFC Championship away from the San Francisco 49ers. Niners quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo ran out of mojo and couldn’t save his team or the Kroenke-hating fans in St. Louis. The...
It’s almost comical, to watch baseball grumble along in a damaging labor dispute, ruining its offseason marketing and promotion opportunities, making its own sport disappear from the national stage, and draining passion from the public with all of the arguments...
Lawdy, what a weekend of football. Four intense walk-off jobs that raised the blood pressure, messed with emotions, and reminded us why the NFL is the most popular viewing sport in the nation. The four games were decided by a total of 15 points. Pints were lifted in...
I’m looking forward to the four games that will set the field for the AFC and NFC conference championship matchups next weekend. Here’s my analysis of each contest, and I’ll include my pick at the end for entertainment purposes only – comedy, as you laugh at my...
This weekend eight NFL teams will compete in the conference semifinals in the march to the Super Bowl. Last week’s wild-card round wasn’t very interesting, with only two of the six games providing any suspense in the form of close-call finishes. Cincinnati defeated...
