It seems my beloved teams are making a habit out of this Ridiculous Postseason Run business. In retrospect, it was the only way it could have gone down. On the "SportsCenter" the night of the Buzzsaw That Is The Arizona Cardinals' NFC Championship victory — and that's a phrase that will never ...

An hour before the tailgating area in Glendale opened Saturday, I met more Arizona Cardinals fans than I'd met in my life. There were three. We were packing the car. You can imagine, then, how overwhelmed I was when we actually arrived and saw thousands of them. Sure, most of them probably didn't ca...

I went home for Christmas, and I dropped by and saw my grandmother. She's a very nice lady. I try to see my grandma every Christmas. She's 88 years old, and she is frail. She has earned her frailty. She had eight children — my father is the oldest boy, and the fourth overall — and has wa...

It is fitting that the great Dock Ellis died on a Friday, which is the worst day to die. Nobody pays attention to news on Saturdays. It makes sense, though: No one was ever quite had a monumental achievement in sports ignored so thoroughly as Dock Ellis. You really can't overstate what he did. You c...

Are you ready for a holiday kiss with your football legends? No, not Joe Montana and some random people dressed up as Kiss (but we will get to them later). The NFL attracts fans from all walks of life. For instance, some of you will spend the holidays gathered around the fireplace surrounded by frie...

Of all the pictures taken during The Buzzsaw That Is The Arizona Cardinals' NFC West-clinching "win" over the St. Louis Rams on Sunday, that one there is my favorite. It is somehow perfect that, when the Arizona Cardinals won their first division championship since 1975 (the year I was born!), the m...

Yes, it's the edition of the Guesspert NFL Power Rankings that's been nearly two decades and tens of millions of dollars in the making! I'd hire Axl Rose himself to read it, but I'd be afraid that he'd storm off in the middle of it, and leave the drunken lot of you with no other choice but to tear y...

On Thanksgiving morning, I picked up a copy of the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer , the daily paper round those parts. I did it out of habit; I was eating an English muffin and needed something to do with my other hand. Whatever your thoughts about the newspaper industry, I think we can all agree th...

All I can say after watching those first two mismatches that were played on Thanksgiving -- the league needs to look into turning the day into a "plus one" format. I'm sure fans of the Titans and Cowboys -- and people who rang up fantasy points with those squads'  studs -- were happy ...

The most fascinating story I read all week, without question, was this New York Times story about Rev. Ed Young in Grapevine, Tx. encouraging his parishioners to have sex with each other. Life's gotta be pretty dull for a preacher sometimes — "Lord, forgive me, but if I have to give another en...