What a year it was for Army West Point Football in 2017. Head coach Jeff Monken guided the Black Knights to just their second ten-win season, the other such campaign coming in 1996. For the first time since 1996, Army also won the coveted Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy after narrowly defeating Navy during a …
No, I am not saying this as a disgruntled Yankees fan. This is merely an objective perspective. Is it fair that the Yankees, a team on pace to win 102 games, is virtually guaranteed to be in the do-or-die wild card game while the Indians (on pace for 91 wins) …
Even though the AFC West has been a pretty competitive division throughout the years, this division has seen many teams repeat as division winners since the 2000 season. The Oakland Raiders had a three year streak of winning the division from 2000-2002, the San Diego Chargers had a four year …
As banal as it sounds, there are officially no more Sundays without football for the rest of the year! With the imminent season approaching, it is only fitting that the most intriguing gridiron gossip is scrutinized. Here are some tidbits for the 2018 NFL season, ranked in no particular order. …
Even though the Minnesota Vikings won the NFC North by a landslide last season and upgraded at quarterback, they got some competition this upcoming season as the best quarterback in the league, Aaron Rodgers is back with the Green Bay Packers. There is no doubt that the Vikings have a …
Since the start of the 2002 season, the AFC North has more often than not produced more than one playoff team on a yearly basis as that has happened nine different times in this division in the past 16 seasons. However, the AFC North has seemed to lost its competitiveness …
As I mentioned in a previous article, any chances the Yankees had to intensify the race for AL East supremacy dwindled to infinitesimal levels. They are 8.5 games behind and appear positioned for another Wild Card game showdown. Yet, the baseball gods could be rewarding us in another way. If the …
Regardless of how fervently and ardently one follows a team, it is important to remain realistic and objective. That certainly stands true for the 2018 Yankees season. Listen, this is not 1949, when the Yankees defeated the Red Sox on the last day of the season to win the pennant. …
Within the past decade, the NFC South has been a very competitive division that some years has produced more than one playoff team and had teams make deep runs in the playoffs. Since the start of the 2009 season, three different teams from this division have reached the Super Bowl …
While many fans (myself included) are currently preoccupied by the onslaught of the weekend series between the Yankees and Red Sox, today is a very somber day in Yankees history. Just 32 years old, the pilose MVP catcher and Yankees captain lost his life in a plane crash. Munson broke …
Penn State and Joe Paterno alongside Jerry Sandusky. Michigan State and Larry Nassar. Art Briles and Baylor. Louisville and Rick Pitino. Those are the names of college coaches and the institutions that employed those men, often under very surreptitious, furtive circumstances. Winning was always more important than the lives of …
Anything said about the history of the Yankees and Red Sox rivalry can probably be considered a bromide at this juncture. But what cannot yet be said is the outcome of this upcoming series. As of the time of this post, the Red Sox own a 5.5 game lead over …
