Week 11 has come and gone in college football. Most teams have played ten games. Most teams spent Saturday reaffirming their positions in walk overs as another regular season end draws nearer. The latest AP Top 25 poll is out and it looks a lot like a week ago. Alabama rightfully remains the unanimous no. …
Targeting, as you know, is a rules infraction in college football that has gained a lot of attention this season. It actually became its own rule 10 years ago. However, the ejection of the offending player was added in 2013. It’s intent is worthy. It’s intent simply is to reduce head injuries. Who could be …
Abby has spent the last five days licking her wounds from last Saturday. She also has barked incessantly about two half point bad beats that could have flipped the juice in her favor and sent her to the pay window. But, bottom line, as Jim Mora once infamously ranted, “we couldn’t do diddly poo!” …
And, for some reason, all is now quiet on the “must take down offensive monuments front.” So, now that many “offensive” Civil War memorials have been taken down in several of our “united” states ,we ponder, ‘is society any better because of it?’ Did the ones we took down make our country a better place? …
Analytics are woven into the makeup and strategy of major team sports today much more than ever before. It roots are in baseball way back when and it was designed to give the fledgling hobby of fantasy baseball a more cerebral look at who you were drafting and why. It was called sabermetrics originally. The …
One of the many gifts that Boom Boom gave us was the torrent of quips about how one leads one’s life. He could say so much by saying so little. A statement at just the right moment resonated in my young, eager eardrums. How I interpreted or applied it was up to me. No more …
Week 10, which ESPN called “Separation Saturday,” is complete. We looked at it as the last chance to withdraw from a course however. Some did while others passed with flying colors. Below is a complete report card of the tests administered to date. We grade them one nugget at a time. Surely in Baton Rouge, …
Last weekend’s games didn’t pan out too well for Abby. It wasn’t a complete washout like the top 25 teams that played did. More teams (11) ranked in the top 25 lost last week than any other since 1989, and four of them were idle. Abby wagered a meager 10 bones wary of the pre …
In the spring of 1983 I was 23 years old, one year out of college, clean-shaven after my bearded line up episode, and one year into the work world. I knew so much. I knew so little. The south Louisiana outside sales territory that I gleefully covered was growing nicely. Selling Duracell batteries to 23 …
Way way back in 1964, or 5, or 6 I frequently made a Sunday PM trip to the Gulf Gas Station a couple of miles from our house. I did not know it then, but it was on that road and back that my father (Boom Boom) began teaching his lessons of life to me. …
