Posts

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A LOSS FOR MICHIGAN

  OF ALL COLLEGE THINGS:   ---- THE LAUGHTER you hear comes from SEC Haters of the World now that new LSU football coach  LANE KIFFIN  has brought such chaos that the league has scheduled a meeting Thursday with the possible outcome removal of the school from the conference … unlikely though it may seem. With the recent attempt by a handful of NFL rejects, with remaining college eligibility, to return to their respective schools of greater learning ... being seen generally as against the greater good, the SEC presidents, who allegedly control such things, voted 15-0 (with one abstention) to ignore a court order and tell them they would not be welcome. Kiffin, meanwhile, decided he knew better and said he would use a couple of former team members … who were placed on the roster but did not appear in the season-opening 51-10 rout of Clemson. Now, despite the presidential ruling, Kiffin continues to milk the situation by, to this point, refusing to bid them adios. By th...
Post a Comment
Read more

IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED ,,,, ARSENAL TRIED AGAIN ,,, TO PERECTION

  NOTHING BUT SOCCER … (world class variety) ... … . At first, he appeared stunned, head in hands ... after a player who was on the bench, with little chance of getting on the field, only minutes earlier had replaced a questionably-injured teammate and scored (for the first time in nine years) the game-tying goal on virtually the last play to give the home team at least a sense of success … which, until the final minutes, seemed outrageous, at best. Then, as he walked off the pitch, Manchester United coach  MICHAEL CARRICK’s expression changed to one of dark, if not desperate, determination. And ManU fans could only hope [cliché alert]  heads will roll  as a result. Once again his defense let him down. Both Everton goals were set up directly by weak, errant attempts to clear … the second (by veteran  NOUSSAIR MAHARRAMI   going directly to recent addition   AINSLEY MAITLAND-NILES   ,29, who cranked up a perfectly-placed strike from outside the box....
Post a Comment
Read more

SPORTS DOESN'T MAKE SENSE ... UNLESS YOU ARE CURT CIGNETTI

  BRIEFLY TOLD (I hope) … …  You want crazy?  ENZO FERNANDEZ  cost Manchester  City $169 million – Yes … MILLION – to acquire him from  Chelsea. Yet he was scheduled to be on the bench Saturday at  the outset of an EPL match with Coventry City. That is, until  another of his high-priced teammates was injured during  warmup. City led 1-0 at halftime on  ERLING HAALAND’s  diving header for goal in the 26 th  minute … Who else? … He also was  stopped one on one by goalkeeper  CARL RUSHWORTH  in a  wild opening 45 that saw Coventry’s   JAIWO AWO NIYI   miss  a wide-open net … Man City’s playmaking midfielder   CHERKI  slam a shot off the left upright and keeper   GIANLUIGI DONNARUMMA   mishandle a pass that barely  missed being an own goal. The ball actually crossed the  line...but not all of it, according to VAR, which NBC/USA  didn’t bother to show us. Haaland’...
Post a Comment
Read more

BEAU WAS BEATIFUL IN ONE-SIDED AGAINST WOLFPACK

   Some opinion, Mostly fact ... …  like … a show of hands, please … if you weren’t surprised by  Virginia football’s domination of North Carolina State Friday  night. The final was 34-8, and it could/should have been even  more embarrassing for the Wolfpack … in particular  CJ  BAILEY , preseason All-American who was made to look like  just another quarterback by a Cavalier defense missing its  best  player … while counterpart, courtesy of the transfer portal,   BEAU PRIBULA , played like all-world in his Hoos’ debut. Even without linebacker   KAM ROBINSON , Virginia  handled State with such ease you might have thought this one of  thos  payoff  games of old … in which some poor I-AA or D2  team warmup. The game’s first series was indicative of what was in  store for Bailey, 6-6, 218-pound junior in his third season as  starter. On 3d and 5 from the Pack 30, he couldn’t locate an open re...
Post a Comment
Read more