A footie Variant of the Fog Bowl

Baker Mayfield’s mood isn’t going be improved by his statue at Oklahoma

You wouldn’t know it to look at it, but the Baker Mayfield Heisman statue has gone up in Norman. It’s no Cristiano-Ronaldo-bust-level disaster, but it’s also definitely not Baker Mayfield’s face. My best hypothesis right now is that the sculptor took a guess at what the Heisman-winning quarterback is going in order to look… Read […]

Finally, Ole Miss gets its 1960 title back… and last year’s national title… and every national title in between

Ole Miss has never won an outright nationwide championship, splitting the honors with Minnesota in 1960, when the Rebels were ranked No. 1 by the Football Writers Association of America and the Golden Gophers were tabbed as the top squad by The Associated Press. Read more…

The Phoenix Suns are going bankrupt in the attention economy

Chis Paul is the NBA’s Copernicus. He needs to be the offensive axis, and his arrival placed the Suns near the center of the NBA galaxy. The Western Conference’s heliocentric age began, and we didn’t even know it because everyone has been so eager to babble about the particular Lakers, Nets, Sixers, and Warriors. Read […]