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Can We Get Back To The Present, Please?

Talking with some fellow Illinois fans not that long ago, they mentioned that they were hoping the Illini basketball team could land recruits Jabari Parker, Thomas Hamilton, Jr...

Written by Mordecai Browner about 3 months ago 99 reads 0 comments
LeBron, You Really Should Have Studied More

So, LeBron, you got dunked on. So you got dunked on by a kid from Xavier barely known to college fans. Did you really need to act all "Big Brother" and destroy the videotape? You've had a horrible time since the buzzer sounded on your '08-'09 season...

Written by Mordecai Browner about 4 months ago 890 reads 33 comments
Clint Hurdle's Rocky Tenure: A Scapegoat for Poor Upper Management

Most write-ups regarding the firing of Clint Hurdle can't help but focus immediately on the improbable great baseball the Rockies played in September and October of 2007, and who could blame them considering it's his only accomplishment in seven years...

Written by Mordecai Browner about 6 months ago 185 reads 5 comments
Men's College Basketball: Sometimes, Recruiting Should Be a Felony

If you give your 15-year-old a beer or if you do nothing to ensure said teen goes to school, you can be charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, which at that age is a felony in many states...

Written by Mordecai Browner about 6 months ago 251 reads 1 comments
Dallas Morning News Irresponsible in Practice Facility Over-Coverage

In this recession, it's been hard to miss newspapers closing down. It's been even harder to miss self-important journalists belly-aching about the newspaper industry...

Written by Mordecai Browner about 6 months ago 245 reads 0 comments
"Branch Rickey's Bojangles," Or Good Writing, Good Business, and B/R

Jackie Robinson was no noble pioneer. Rather, he was complicit in the continual subordination of the African-American for white male profits, each day working the sun-drenched dust in a manner ...

Written by Mordecai Browner about 6 months ago 66 reads 6 comments
Sleaze Has No Offseason: Pearl Devoid Of Ethics in APR Criticism

March Madness may have faded from our collective rear-view mirrors, with the Tennessee Volunteers even further behind, but that does not stop Bruce Pearl from continuing his solemn trek to being college basketball's biggest tool...

Written by Mordecai Browner about 6 months ago 364 reads 17 comments
Reducing Baseball to Numbers Is an Insult to The Game Itself

It's no secret that baseball fans are obsessed with numbers. It seems 3000, 500, and 300 are benchmarks for automatic fame, while the numbers 61, 70, and 73 have caused an outpouring of controversy, news, and debates over punctuation additions...

Written by Mordecai Browner about 7 months ago 175 reads 5 comments
Libel, or the Relevance of the RIck Pitino Soap Opera

I don't have a bleeping idea what's going on in Louisville, and unlike many other electro-fabulists, I'm going to refrain from connecting the dots how I see fit...

Written by Mordecai Browner about 7 months ago 3,145 reads 11 comments
John Calipari and Kentucky: A Marriage Made in Basketball Heaven

I, John Calipari... John Calipari is a good basketball coach, not a great one. The Kentucky basketball program right now is a good one, not a great one. They're perfect for each other. On the surface, Calipari is an outstanding catch for the Wildcats.

Written by Mordecai Browner about 8 months ago 930 reads 20 comments
Got That Kentucky-Davidson Score? A Call To Expand the Tournament to 96 Teams

I never thought I'd say this, and in fact I've suggested the opposite in the past, but give me 96 teams in the NCAA Tournament. Essentially, there are two distinct consumer values of the NCAA tournament...

Written by Mordecai Browner about 8 months ago 243 reads 7 comments
Randy Johnson: Shadow Of a Giant

Roger Clemens, David Wells, Gaylord Perry, Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and even going back to Warren Spahn, in every case it was gone by 44...

Written by Mordecai Browner about 9 months ago 108 reads 2 comments
Bud Selig, Or, A Better Way To Spend Eighteen Million Dollars

“I will make this prediction to you: by the time I leave, you won’t recognize this sport,” he said a year ago. “It’s going to be that much more popular and we’ll have branched out into so many other things...

Written by Mordecai Browner about 9 months ago 132 reads 2 comments
Desperate Times: The Dark Side of Tim Tebow Worship

"If you are fortunate enough to spend five minutes around Tim Tebow, your life is better for it." It's a certain nominee for the best broadcast fellatio in a very young 2009...

Written by Mordecai Browner about 10 months ago 1,931 reads 54 comments
Utah, Boise State, and the Arrogant Mythology Behind Deja Vu

Can we please stop calling them David-and-Goliath upsets? Four years ago, the Utah Utes thrashed Pitt 35-7 in the Fiesta Bowl. Two years ago, Boise State beat an 11-1 Oklahoma squad in the very same stadium...

Written by Mordecai Browner about 11 months ago 2,241 reads 16 comments
Breathing Under Water: The Need For Revolution In College Football

Our purpose is to govern competition in a fair, safe, equitable and sportsmanlike manner, and to integrate intercollegiate athletics into higher education so that the educational experience of the student-athlete is paramount...

Written by Mordecai Browner about 11 months ago 623 reads 12 comments
Responsibility: It's Not Just for Iowa Fans and Bathroom Stalls

A story rumbling around the message boards concerns two Iowa fans who were caught having adult relations in a Metrodome handicapped stall last Saturday, an event that has probably garnered more reaction than the lackluster 55-0 game itself...

Written by Mordecai Browner about about 1 year ago 736 reads 1 comments
Overachievers, Underachievers: Recruiting and Performance in 2008

Every February, we make a big deal about recruiting rankings as the next college football class signs with their prospective schools. But rarely do we look back in time to see who did the best with the recruits they got...

Written by Mordecai Browner about about 1 year ago 1,558 reads 9 comments
Illinois Football 2008: The Big Orange Waste

For the second time in my life, Illinois, fresh off a BCS Bowl, has pushed itself right back into the mediocrity pit. In 2002, the Illini posted a 5-7 record after going to the Sugar Bowl the prior year...

Written by Mordecai Browner about about 1 year ago 649 reads 2 comments
If Minorities Can Be President, Why Not Head Coach?

Three nights after Barack Obama became the first minority President-elect of the United States, I'm left wondering about one of the most tried-and-true topics in college football: the scarcity of black head coaches...

Written by Mordecai Browner about about 1 year ago 3,884 reads 62 comments
John Amaechi: The Big Gay Barrier Got Bigger

Quick: What's the difference between John Amaechi and the wide receiver formally known as Chad Johnson? John Amaechi has a little bit more brains; Ocho Cinco has a ton more talent and relevance...

Written by Mordecai Browner about about 1 year ago 442 reads 7 comments
Joe Dumars and the College Degree Fallacy

Joe Dumars went back to school recently and earned his diploma from McNeese State. After years of putting off those lingering last few credits in favor of winning NBA basketball games and running ...

Written by Mordecai Browner about about 1 year ago 507 reads 0 comments
High School Football and The Wonderful Part Of a 91-Point Win

"A high-school teacher...is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it...

Written by Mordecai Browner about about 1 year ago 561 reads 1 comments
Illini A Mystery No More, Belong In Top 25

Until this past weekend, the Illinois football team had befuddled even its most ardent fans. Despite giving Missouri and Penn State competitive games on the road, Illinois had squeezed by Louisiana-Lafayette ...

Written by Mordecai Browner about about 1 year ago 416 reads 1 comments
Intervention For a Cub Fan

I expected a bachelor party. Ain't nothing like an Old Style too many and a parade of strippers to forget what just happened. Instead, there sat my family and some hippie chick with a psychiatry degree...

Written by Mordecai Browner about about 1 year ago 754 reads 3 comments

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Mordecai Browner Article Archive

Can We Get Back To The Present, Please?

LeBron, You Really Should Have Studied More

Clint Hurdle's Rocky Tenure: A Scapegoat for Poor Upper Management

Men's College Basketball: Sometimes, Recruiting Should Be a Felony

Dallas Morning News Irresponsible in Practice Facility Over-Coverage

"Branch Rickey's Bojangles," Or Good Writing, Good Business, and B/R

Sleaze Has No Offseason: Pearl Devoid Of Ethics in APR Criticism

Reducing Baseball to Numbers Is an Insult to The Game Itself

Libel, or the Relevance of the RIck Pitino Soap Opera

John Calipari and Kentucky: A Marriage Made in Basketball Heaven

Got That Kentucky-Davidson Score? A Call To Expand the Tournament to 96 Teams

Randy Johnson: Shadow Of a Giant

Bud Selig, Or, A Better Way To Spend Eighteen Million Dollars

Desperate Times: The Dark Side of Tim Tebow Worship

Utah, Boise State, and the Arrogant Mythology Behind Deja Vu

Breathing Under Water: The Need For Revolution In College Football

Responsibility: It's Not Just for Iowa Fans and Bathroom Stalls

Overachievers, Underachievers: Recruiting and Performance in 2008

Illinois Football 2008: The Big Orange Waste

If Minorities Can Be President, Why Not Head Coach?

John Amaechi: The Big Gay Barrier Got Bigger

Joe Dumars and the College Degree Fallacy

High School Football and The Wonderful Part Of a 91-Point Win

Illini A Mystery No More, Belong In Top 25

Intervention For a Cub Fan

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