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The MLS Season Preview of Ignorance
Kevan Lee is not qualified to do a soccer column. He is an NFL fan with a narrow world view and a strong distaste for sports that don’t involve use of hands. Nevertheless, he thought doing MLS power rankings would be a fun idea...
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David Rules: How Boise State Changed College Football
The current state of college football (i.e. chaos, anarchy, fear) is all Boise State’s fault. Sorry, BCS conference teams. Apologies to you, Myles Brand. Deepest condolences, LSU, USC, and especially, Oklahoma...
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Super Baloney: Plaxico Burress Takes on the New England Receivers
Plaxico Burress seems to think the Giants receivers are better than the Patriots wide receivers. No word yet on whether Eli Manning is better than Tom Brady, socialism is better than democracy, or the digital watch is better than wristband sundials...
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Hindsight for Sore Eyes: A Look Back at NFL Preseason Predictions
With the NFL playoffs around the corner, I thought it might be fun to take a look back at my preseason predictions.A lot has changed since those halcyon days of August, when the Dolphins thought ...
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Week 15 Runaround: Good Coach, Bad Coach
Good teams can make the playoffs without a good coach (Chargers, anyone?)—but when the postseason rolls around, coaching decisions can make or break a team’s chances...
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NFL Week 14 Runaround: What's the Rush?
Adrian Peterson has undoubtedly set the NFL on fire this year.Peterson led the league in rushing going into Week 14, despite having missed two games with an injured knee...
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Week 13 Runaround: The Problem with Instant Replay
Instant replay was fun for awhile, but it really has to go.Referees are hiding behind it, coaches are abusing it, and the quality of the football experience is being diminished by it...
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Game of the Week: Buccaneers vs. Saints
When Tampa Bay steamrolled the Saints in Week Two, the surprising result was only a preview of what was to come.The Buccaneers have proven to be a real force in the NFC South, and currently hold a two-game lead in the division...
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With Packers and Cowboys Both 10-1, NFC Looks to Compete
Dallas and Green Bay are playing at an elite level, which has done wonders for their storied franchises, but has also raised the appearance of an entire conference.For awhile now, the NFC has been the little brother to the dominant AFC...
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Game of the Week: Packers vs. Lions
It's hard to remember the last time the Lions played a meaningful Thanksgiving Day game—although they've tried pretty hard in the last two weeks to make this one irrelevant...
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NFL Week 11 Runaround: Thank Goodness for the Patriots
Admit it. You missed them.When the Patriots returned from their bye week with a 56-10 win over the Bills this Sunday, everything was right again in the NFL...
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Game of the Week: Chargers vs. Jaguars
Conventional wisdom says the AFC is far superior to the NFC. On Sunday, we'll find out if the same can be said of the AFC South and the AFC West.Through the first 10 weeks of the NFL season, there has been no better division than the South...
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NFL Week 10 Runaround: Midseason Awards
While pundits around the country were busy doling out their midseason awards last week, I was busy stealing their ideas for this column. I was told this is how FOX Sports does things.That said, my picks are going to be a little different...
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Game of the Week: Cowboys vs. Giants
When the Giants face off against the Cowboys this weekend, NFC East supremacy won't the only thing on the line.Sunday’s winner will also position itself as the team to beat in the NFC...
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NFL Week Nine Runaround: Patriot Day
There was a point in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s Patriots-Colts game, somewhere between Gary Brackett’s interception and Peyton Manning’s quarterback sneak touchdown, where all hope seemed lost for the Patriots...
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Game of the Week: Patriots vs. Colts
Forgive me for adding to the Patriots-Colts hype.I just can’t help myself.As a diehard Patriots fan, I've been living a dream these first eight weeks.Thankfully it’s the undefeated, world-beating Patriots dream...
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NFL Week Eight Runaround: The NFC Playoff Race
The race for Super Bowl runner-up is officially on in the NFC. Kevan Lee handicaps the field.
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Game of the Week: Giants vs. Dolphins
In the first NFL regular-season game to be played overseas, the surging New York Giants—featuring a curmudgeonly old coach, a quarterback with a Napoleon complex, and a defense waiting ...
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NFL Week Seven Runaround: Tom Brady's Video Game Numbers
Watching the Patriots dominate the Dolphins on Sunday made one thing painfully clear: I need Madden '08. My wife might disagree.I'm currently saddled with the ’07 version, featuring an All-Pro Tom Brady but not much else...
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Game of the Week: Colts vs. Jaguars
High school wasn't the easiest time for me.There was homework, peer pressure, and the eternal fear of getting pantsed in the hallway. I longed for the days of recess and multiplication tables...
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NFL Week Six Runaround: The NFL Experience
Sunday night is football night...or so I’m told.I attended the Seahawks-Saints game at rocking Qwest Field in Seattle last Sunday night...
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Game of the Week: Bucs vs. Titans
I lied.This isn't the game of the week.Everyone in his right mind knows that Patriots-Cowboys is the be-all, end-all of Week Six...but picking that battle of unbeatens as the best game this Sunday is too easy...
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NFL Week Five Runaround: AFC Southern Hospitality
One of the most annoying NFL topics of the previous week, as far as I was concerned, was the notion that the AFC South was the best division in football...
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Game of the Week: Seahawks vs. Steelers
Two years ago, the Steelers and Seahawks played in one of the more dreadful Super Bowls in recent memory.The final score wasn't so much a proclamation of an NFL champion as it was a condemnation of not having the Patriots or Colts participate...
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NFL Week Four Runaround: Griese Bears Losing Their Grip
When Bears fans were clamoring for a quarterback change, maybe they were thinking of Kyle Orton.One week after the Bears benched the debatably awful Rex Grossman, Brian Griese threw up his best Bad Rex impersonation in an ugly loss to the Lions...


