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.
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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.
The uniform color and nickname and fight song are all secondary issues. The level of commitment isn’t. High school football programs built from the first blade of grass tend to need more continuity than flavor.
The two-day Breeders’ Cup bills itself as the World Championships, and this year the two-day event finally might be recognized for living up to its name. Last year, the Euros won five and placed in five of the 14 races. This year they have a good chance to do even better.
It was a long summer for Rick Pitino, who revealed an extramarital sexual encounter and an extortion attempt against him. The Louisville basketball coach was publicly embarrassed, to say the least.
My mother is a small, forgetful, cheerful Irish immigrant who never drove a day in her life, is convinced mashed potatoes aren’t the same without mixing in that fourth stick of butter and always thinks the next cup of coffee she drinks is the best of her lifetime.
About the current waterfowl hunting conditions, a hunter named B. Shaw reported Tuesday that there is “no migration” and “few local birds.” Weather conditions are sunny, with early-morning temperatures ranging from 51 to 60 degrees. The day before, B. Julain reported similar hunting conditions.
For us logical types, let’s assume the first time Antonio Margarito tried wrapping his hands for a fight with enough plaster to shape a small cast wasn’t moments before facing Shane Mosley in January.
With a chance to throw crushing blows to Las Vegas sports books the past two weeks, Eli Manning instead threw interceptions, and his New York Giants are now an enemy of the betting public.