Wow. Hardly seems real. I will never forget where I was when Terrell Owens news broke. I was at a Clippers Game , but as you can imagine, I was awfully distracted by my phone blowing up. So, the Cowboys have released Terrell Owens. I see the message boards indicate that this is a massive mistake, ac...

Class 6A all-state football teams. Area players in bold 1ST TEAMOffenseQB Eugene Smith, Miramar, 6-4/185, Sr.RB Al-Terek McBurse, Winter Springs, 6-0/190, Sr.RB Jeremy Wright, Clermont East Ridge, 5-10/190, Sr.RB Lamar Miller, Miami Killian, 5-11/202, Sr.OL Steven Jacques, Hollywood South Broward, 6...

So, the next eight days will be chock full of end-of-year retrospectives. We'll do our own as well. Today: Broken legs and face slashings. Let's be honest. There is only one reason that we pay grown men millions of dollars a year to play children's games for our amusement—the opportunity to se...

Javon Ringer came up just short Thursday night of the Doak Walker Award (Iowa's Shonn Greene got it, deservingly), but Ringer was named a Walter Camp All-American, a major honor. Here's the press release from MSU: LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Michigan State senior running back Javon Ringer, wh...

Normal 0 Fourteen weeks into the 2008-09 season and the Raiders continue their downward spiral.  At 3-9, one can only be thankful that you are not a Detroit Lions fan. Who said Christmas doesn’t come early? According to the latest CBS Sports line Playoff tracker. The Raiders are not out o...

Iowa 22 Purdue 17 The Hawkeyes didn’t play their best game, although coming off the Penn State win that was to be expected. As usual, Shonn Greene carried the day. The Iowa back rushed for 211 yards and a pair of touchdowns, including a 75-yard jaunt that helped give the Hawks control. Greene has ...

Michigan State Rush Offense vs. Notre Dame Rush DefenseIrish fans are very familiar with the name 23 Javon Ringer by now. The senior has been a workhorse for the Spartans so far, with 104 carries in just three games. Ringer is averaging 34-35 carries, 166 yards, and 3 touchdowns per game. That's rig...

Normal 0 There is a sign on the way out of the Raiders locker room as they head out to the practice field. Its says, "I'm in". The players all smack it and repeat the slogan each time they are headed out.  However, this year like recent years, I think this slogan may be only part of w...

It has been 2 years since Monday Night Football has been in Oakland,  and 252 days since the Raiders have played a regular season football game. The McAfee Coliseum in Oakland, CA, will be rocking tonight as the Raiders kick off their 2008-2009 NFL regular season against long-time AFC division ...

The NFL season has officially started, so it's time to finish the impassioned season previews from various writers, bloggers, diehard fans, cooks, TV personalities, and numerous other walks of life whom consider football the only sport worth watching. Clearly, these previews will be running until, o...