Category archives: Sports

Retired Roddick's Rise Highlights Flawed Rankings System

This was Andy Roddick‘s last match as a professional.  At the US Open.  In September.  Of last year.  As in, 2012. And yet somehow the Association of Tennis Professionals managed to bump retired American Andy Roddick up 2 places in this week’s most current ATP Tour Rankings.  Coming in at #40, Andy Roddick finds himself merely one place behind Frenchman Benoit Paire and one place ahead of Argentinian Horacio Zeballos- […]

Happy 50th Birthday MJ, Jordan's Greatest Moments

Michael Jordan turns 50 today and although his life has had its ups and downs, there is no denying that he remains the greatest basketball player of all time. Tributes abound so here are a few to help you remember and relish the player that was MJ. Jordan’s 23 Greatest Moments via ESPN: Jordan’s top 5 greatest Moments voted on by ESPN fans: Jordan’s Flu Game in 1997 NBA Finals: […]

5 Things You Didn't Know About Michael Jordan

As the basketball legend turns the big 5-0 tomorrow, here are five things you didn’t know (but want to know) about Michael Jordan. #1:  He wore the number 12 for one game.  The reason?  Someone stole his number 23 jersey from the Bulls’s locker room in the Orlando arena.  On Valentine’s Day in 1990, after trying on a kid’s replica 23 Jordan jersey and finding that it didn’t fit, Jordan […]

Alabama Wins Another National Championship on National Signing Day

The rich seem to just keep getting richer. And on National Signing Day, the first day for high school football players to sign their national letters of intent to play for the college of their choice, the Tide kept rolling. According to both Rivals.com and ESPN.com, Alabama sits atop of the recruiting class rankings again this year, after winning its third actual national title in four years. Rivals.com is one […]

Happy National Signing Day!

For anyone who knows me, today is a beautiful mixture of two wonderful days: Reagan’s birthday and National Signing Day. For those of you who don’t know, today is the first day that recruits can officially sign to their respective universities. It is usually full of drama (right now, I am eagerly awaiting two “maybes” to make up their mind for the University of Nebraska) and it is college football’s […]

An Unlikely Super Bowl Endorsement?

Politics and sports have certain parallels. You have an offense and a defense, fair-weather fans and those bad calls by the refs. You could read the following prediction by former presidential candidate and Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum for hidden meanings. But there’s no need to. As a life-long Bengals fan, I understand why a Steelers fan would write this. It still doesn’t make it right. A prediction is easy compared […]

NFL Super Bowl XLVII (Live-Blog)

Shane is rooting for the 49ers. Nathan is as well. Ali is rooting on the referees. You can stay on this page for updates. No need to refresh, you’ll get a prompt letting you know when there’s an update. Who’s ready for a game?!