1. Enough Bubble Talk: Who Will Win the NCAA Tournament?

    It is pretty widely accepted in the college basketball world that this Kentucky team will have one shot at this before at least two of their Fab Freshmen become lottery picks...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about 3 years ago 451 reads 10 comments

  2. Guards Erving Walker, Kenny Boynton Are Key To Florida's SEC Tournament Run

    The SEC Tournament: A test of skill and survival. Unless your team finishes in the top two of its division, to win it, a team must win four games in four days. This will be especially challenging for Florida guards Erving Walker and Kenny Boynton...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about 3 years ago 198 reads 0 comments

  3. Ticket Punched!: Florida Takes Down Tennessee, Heading To NCAA Tournament

    It is over! The two straight years of NIT bids? Done. Florida is going dancing. I know, I know, there are still three games left. And then there is a little matter of the SEC Tournament. No matter...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about over 3 years ago 226 reads 2 comments

  4. Are the Cavs Really the Team To Beat in the East?

    Listening to the talking heads on ESPN and TNT, you'd think Cleveland is a lock to go to the NBA Finals. To borrow a quote from another ESPN talking head from a different sport, "NOT so fast my friends"...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about over 3 years ago 413 reads 10 comments

  5. Can Florida Gators Close the Deal On the Brink of the Big Dance?

    It's been three years. Three long years of frustration for Florida Gator fans. Three years of frustrating losses and late season collapses have kept the Gators from going back to the NCAA Tournament...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about over 3 years ago 180 reads 0 comments

  6. The Drive For Five Is Alive...and Well For The #48

    Should we just go ahead and give him the trophy now? Might as well. Jimmie Johnson is picking up right where he's left off the last four years. He's won in Fontana, again. Talent and good fortune are a hard combo to beat...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about over 3 years ago 42 reads 2 comments

  7. Where Has Jeff Gordon Gone?

    There was a time not too long ago when the No. 24 car of Jeff Gordon was the most feared car on the track. Super Speedways, short tracks, intermediate sized tracks, road courses, it didn't matter...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about over 3 years ago 285 reads 15 comments

  8. Florida Gators Deserve To Be in Your Bracket

    For the next month, now that the Super Bowl is over, the big story in sports will be the NCAA Tournament Selection process.  Everyone from ESPN, CBS sports, and even our own Bleacher Report will be giving you their "bracketology...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about over 3 years ago 219 reads 4 comments

  9. What Is the Best Ending in Sports?

    Game One of the 1988 World Series. A's vs. Dodgers. Bottom of the ninth. Two outs. The Dodgers call on their best player, Kirk Gibson. He was the MVP of the Leagues Championship Series but was injured and could not play in the World Series...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about over 3 years ago 129 reads 0 comments

  10. Reducing Scholarships, Not a Playoff, Is the Answer for College Football

    So you're tired of seeing the SEC win all the time? You're sick of the same old schools getting the best recruits? You hate that teams like Utah and Boise State go undefeated yet get no love ...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about over 3 years ago 258 reads 9 comments

  11. NFL Overtime Rules...And You Thought the BCS was Awful

    Full disclosure here: I am a college football fan. I love college football. I love everything about it. I even like the postseason. This includes the overtime rules. I love it. Both teams get a chance...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about over 3 years ago 2,189 reads 93 comments

  12. Now, What Do the Vols Cling To, the Fulmer Era, Part II?

    Let me see if I got this right. You had a coach who was 152-52. So you fired him. You hired a coach to take his place who was 5-15. He runs off with another woman...er.....

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about over 3 years ago 538 reads 10 comments

  13. Congrats To the Bammers: You've Got a Great Team

    Congratulations to Alabama. You are a worthy champion. You guys had a great year and you deserve it. No doubt about it. You beat the best to get there. That Florida team, if not for you, would've gone down in history as the best college team ever...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about over 3 years ago 29 reads 0 comments

  14. Where Have You Gone Dan Marino? Has It Really Been 25 Years?

    As a boy growing up in the late 1960s and 1970s in Florida, there was only one thing in life you could count upon. Fall Sundays meant the Dolphins were going to be on TV beating the daylights out of somebody...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about over 3 years ago 296 reads 5 comments

  15. Central Michigan. I Have a Candidate For You

    You need a football coach. I've got one for you. He's a coach that has a winning record. He's a coach that Cincinnati won't steal. Bobby Bowden. I know what you're thinking. The guy is 100. Well actually he's 20 years away from that...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about over 3 years ago 297 reads 3 comments

  16. So You Want To Unseat Florida? You've Got a Way To Go

    I know Alabama homers are still giddy over their SEC Championship. I don't blame you. It was huge. I know you're pumped about the big game next week. You should be...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about over 3 years ago 681 reads 56 comments

  17. Will Ingram's Heisman Help Texas?

    We've seen it too often now to just dismiss it as coincidence. The Heisman jinx is too real to be ignored. How many times have we seen this already? The team who's guy wins the Heisman gets beat in the Bowl game...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about over 3 years ago 1,034 reads 10 comments

  18. Time for You Urban Meyer Haters To Come Up with a New Reason To Hope

    You know who you are. You're the "Urban will be at Notre Dame next year" crowd. The people who were hoping and praying that Notre Dame was still Urban Meyer's "dream job" because as long as he's at Florida, your team has no chance...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about over 3 years ago 1,035 reads 21 comments

  19. Get Ready Tide and Longhorn Fans, Here It Comes

    Every year at this time we hear the moaning. Is it from eating too much turkey leftovers? No. Is it from too much apple pie? Nope. Too much egg nog? Uh uh. No it's the we-hate-the-college-football-postseason crowd...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about over 3 years ago 602 reads 17 comments

  20. Florida-Alabama: What Have We Learned Today?

    We learned that Tim Tebow alone is not enough to win. That should scare all of you Gator bashers to death. Because for four years you have been saying "wait until Tebow is gone" and "it'll be back to normal when Tebow is gone...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about over 3 years ago 249 reads 13 comments

  21. Bobby Bowden, Florida State Should Stay Home on New Year's Day

    To coach Bobby Bowden: Thank you for everything you've done for the game, the state of Florida, Florida State University, and the fans. The game won't be the same without you...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about over 3 years ago 1,142 reads 38 comments

  22. This Gator is Going to Miss Bobby Bowden

    I'm going to miss Bobby Bowden. Not because he has taken FSU and turned them into a Gator whipping boy. That's not the Bobby I miss. I miss the younger Bobby. I miss the Bobby that used to bring it every week, year after year...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about over 3 years ago 208 reads 2 comments

  23. The Biggest Game in Our Lifetime? The 2009 SEC Championship

    We have all heard them. The stories of legends past. The stories of Knute Rockne and the Four Horsemen. We know of Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard. We have heard the stories of Bud Wilkinson's Sooners...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about over 3 years ago 2,464 reads 7 comments

  24. The Florida Gator Boys Are Hot Again!

    We interrupt this most important football weekend to bring you the following message. The Gators are at it again. Friday night, the Gators ran their record to 5-0 with a 77-74 win over No. 2 Michigan State in Atlantic City...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about over 3 years ago 470 reads 10 comments

  25. UCF Should Give O'Leary One More Year, but Expect Results in 2010

    The UCF Knights are going to a bowl game in 2009. It's the third time in the last five years for the Knights and coach George O'Leary to take his team to a post season bowl. Not bad, right. Well, it's not great either...

    Jim Folsom Written by Jim Folsom about over 3 years ago 753 reads 12 comments