A postseason is not an exhibition, it’s a tournament to declare a champion — except in major college sports. Men’s college basketball has the NIT, and college football there’s bowl season. Both were more prestigious decades ago, but at least no one is harping about the sanctity of the NIT anymore. College football’s… Read more…
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Real Madrid won La Liga this weekend
Whether it’s much of an accomplishment or not, that’s hard to figure out. La Liga has questionably turned to trash, when compared to what it used to be. Thanks to Barcelona’s torching their own establishment for the insurance money and forgetting the insurance money, and no other club being able to step into the… Read […]
Somehow the ‘BuT-tHe-AmATeUR-MoDeL! ‘ NCAA survived the beginning of NIL
We’re approaching the four-month mark since the NCAA officially approved name, image, and likeness rights for student-athletes and, somehow, the apocalypse has not come, the collegiate model has not collapsed, and Dabo Swinney is still coaching (to some extent , at least). As athletes, schools, sponsors and lawmakers… Read more…
If only NIL money forced Dabo Swinney out of college football
Clemson is 2-2, and as big of a shock as that will be for a program that’s won the last six ACC titles with a pair of national championships along the way, we really should have seen it coming. Read more…