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Michigan State Exposed in Loss To North Carolina...Again

Clang. Clang. Clang. If the sound was a musical note, then the Michigan State Spartans where writing somewhat of a symphony in their 89-82 loss to the young North Carolina Tar Heels in the marquee matchup of the Big 10/ACC Challenge...

Written by Daniel Muth about 1 day ago 291 reads 4 comments
Lioness In Repose: The Legacy Of Stefanie Spielman.

Too often in the realm of sport we talk about fortitude, courage, and toughness as if the participants aren't just playing a kids game, as if there's really anything meaningful on the line, as ...

Written by Daniel Muth about 2 days ago 317 reads 2 comments
In Battle for the Bottom, Lions Beat Browns In a Barn-Burner.

They say to not be the worst, you've got to beat the worst. They say that offense loses games but defense prevents even a sniff of the championship. They say you've just gotta take it fifty years at a time...

Written by Daniel Muth about 10 days ago 165 reads 13 comments
Michigan State-Gonzaga: In Prelude to Big Dance, Spartans Beat Zags in Thriller

Though it's early in the NCAA men's basketball season and many things can happen between now and March, tonight's matchup between Michigan State and Gonzaga had all the feeling of a Sweet 16 game...

Written by Daniel Muth about 15 days ago 605 reads 7 comments
Before I'm Dead: My Bucket List and the Detroit Lions

Before I'm dead, there are a number of things that I'd like to witness in my life, and most of them seem fairly attainable since I'm not greedy and have never asked for too much. But there's one that I'm not so sure about...

Written by Daniel Muth about 23 days ago 228 reads 10 comments
Michigan State Loss Over Iowa Blamed Squarely on Coaching

The first thing I want to do after Michigan State's disappointing last-second loss to Iowa is to give some due credit to the Hawkeyes for their incredible defensive effort...

Written by Daniel Muth about about 1 month ago 1,498 reads 17 comments
Oklahoma's Sam Bradford Shows Us Why High Picks Should Take the Money

I will say that I have a lot of respect for guys like Oklahoma QB Sam Bradford and Florida's TimTebow for caring about collegiate competition, their teammates, and their respective school communities enough to stay in school and chase national titles...

Written by Daniel Muth about about 1 month ago 729 reads 51 comments
Meow Mix: On the Road to Find Out with the Detroit Lions

So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time outThere's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out I doubt that Cat Stevens was considering the plight of the Detroit Lions when he ...

Written by Daniel Muth about 2 months ago 138 reads 2 comments
Meow Mix: Zero, One, Infinity and the Detroit Lions

Guillaume de L'Hospital, the great 17th century French Mathematician, wrote the first book of differential calculus and is largely credited with the invention of "L'Hospital's rule" an expression ...

Written by Daniel Muth about 2 months ago 173 reads 4 comments
The NFL Cap Is Socialism.

In the latest ESPN poll on the matter, 80% of nearly 12,000 people polled thought that the NFL is better off under a capped system because it maintains competitive balance...

Written by Daniel Muth about 2 months ago 72 reads 7 comments
Blurring the Lines: The Strange Case Of Caster Semenya

Depending on whose statistics you quote and what characteristics you apply, the commonality of "intersex" individuals ranges quite a bit. But in a widely quoted and recognized book on the subject, Anne Fausto-Sterling reported that approximately 1...

Written by Daniel Muth about 2 months ago 864 reads 7 comments
Boise State's Hout Deserved to Get Punched in the Face.

Let me be clear about the punch thrown by Oregon's LeGarrette Blount in the aftermath of the Ducks humiliating defeat at the hands of Boise State: It has no place in collegiate athletics and his year-long suspension is severe, but justified...

Written by Daniel Muth about 2 months ago 1,757 reads 93 comments
A Michigan State Fan Feeling Sorry For Rich Rodriguez

Growing up I didn't like the University of Michigan for a number of reasons, many of them stemming from the simple situational condition of being a Michigan State fan...

Written by Daniel Muth about 3 months ago 629 reads 21 comments
The Devil Wears Armani: How Kentucky Is Selling Its Soul for Wins

In art and literature, the Devil is often outwardly portrayed as a hideous beast with horns and goat-legs and flame-red skin. Some renditions of the Devil show him more like Nosferatu, drawn and gaunt, with a twisted face and coal-black eyes...

Written by Daniel Muth about 3 months ago 656 reads 24 comments
When Gods Descend: Usain Bolt Races to Olympus and Beyond

Once long ago, when the need was just, the Greek God Hermes loaned his winged sandals to Perseus so he could slay the wicked Medusa...

Written by Daniel Muth about 3 months ago 198 reads 10 comments
How The Philadelphia Eagles Stole The Show By Signing Michael Vick.

In the annals of football lore there is a story about a player who came from nothing, achieved everything, then threw it all away. Well there's a number actually (perhaps more than I care to admit) but I've got a particular one on my mind tonight...

Written by Daniel Muth about 3 months ago 369 reads 32 comments
Meow Mix: My Matthew Stafford Pipe Dream

OK, I know I said that drafting Matthew Stafford would be asinine. I'll stand by that because it's not the numbers play, and neglects some gaping holes, particularly up front on both sides of the ball...

Written by Daniel Muth about 3 months ago 272 reads 8 comments
Meow Mix: And Still They Came

The rain came down from the puffy grey heavens dusting the dirty concrete until it glimmered something like silver. And though the skies enveloped the sun such that it was impossible to tell ...

Written by Daniel Muth about 3 months ago 175 reads 2 comments
Meow Mix: High Times in Detroit. The Charles Rogers Story.

If I may paraphrase the late great Brad Nowell of Sublime: He smokes two joints in the morning, He smokes two joints at night, He smokes two joints in the afternoon, It makes him feel alright...

Written by Daniel Muth about 3 months ago 414 reads 8 comments
Meow Mix: How My Detroit Lions Mug Changed My Life

I am not what you might call an early riser. You might not even call me a late riser because left to my own devices, I'll sleep past noon. This after going to bed at around 10:00 pm...

Written by Daniel Muth about 3 months ago 151 reads 9 comments
Meow Mix: On the Need to Believe in the Detroit Lions

They say that the football is a religion unto itself in the United States. If you've ever been to a big-time SEC game or tailgated with the Cheeseheads, or gone rabid in the Dawg Pound, you ...

Written by Daniel Muth about 4 months ago 407 reads 17 comments
Hey Racing Fans! Start Following the Tour De France.

It was Einstein that first introduced us to the theory of relativity. Simply put, If I'm traveling 100 mph and you're traveling 100 mph right beside me, then relative to each other, we're more or less standing still...

Written by Daniel Muth about 4 months ago 219 reads 23 comments
The King? LeBron James steals footage from Jordan Crawford.

There is nothing more un-American than the concept of the King. The title, after all, is granted to one of noble lineage, who by no merit of his own, is granted the right to dominate the lives ...

Written by Daniel Muth about 4 months ago 743 reads 33 comments
The Miracle Man: Lance Armstrong Nearly Nabs the Yellow Jersey

Much too often these days we tend to use other worldly superlatives to explain the things we see in the crucible of sport: the “miracle catch,” the “miracle hit,” the “miracle shot...

Written by Daniel Muth about 4 months ago 642 reads 22 comments
Just Win, Baby: Getting the United States Interested in Soccer

Let me start out this article by stating the fact that I am not what you might call a hard-core soccer (futbol) fan. Where I come from, soccer was the wussy game you played in the interim before ...

Written by Daniel Muth about 5 months ago 339 reads 51 comments

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Daniel Muth Article Archive

Michigan State Exposed in Loss To North Carolina...Again

Lioness In Repose: The Legacy Of Stefanie Spielman.

In Battle for the Bottom, Lions Beat Browns In a Barn-Burner.

Michigan State-Gonzaga: In Prelude to Big Dance, Spartans Beat Zags in Thriller

Before I'm Dead: My Bucket List and the Detroit Lions

Michigan State Loss Over Iowa Blamed Squarely on Coaching

Oklahoma's Sam Bradford Shows Us Why High Picks Should Take the Money

Meow Mix: On the Road to Find Out with the Detroit Lions

Meow Mix: Zero, One, Infinity and the Detroit Lions

The NFL Cap Is Socialism.

Blurring the Lines: The Strange Case Of Caster Semenya

Boise State's Hout Deserved to Get Punched in the Face.

A Michigan State Fan Feeling Sorry For Rich Rodriguez

The Devil Wears Armani: How Kentucky Is Selling Its Soul for Wins

When Gods Descend: Usain Bolt Races to Olympus and Beyond

How The Philadelphia Eagles Stole The Show By Signing Michael Vick.

Meow Mix: My Matthew Stafford Pipe Dream

Meow Mix: And Still They Came

Meow Mix: High Times in Detroit. The Charles Rogers Story.

Meow Mix: How My Detroit Lions Mug Changed My Life

Meow Mix: On the Need to Believe in the Detroit Lions

Hey Racing Fans! Start Following the Tour De France.

The King? LeBron James steals footage from Jordan Crawford.

The Miracle Man: Lance Armstrong Nearly Nabs the Yellow Jersey

Just Win, Baby: Getting the United States Interested in Soccer

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