This week’s episode of The Spectacle podcast begins with a brief discussion of college football, but it’s definitely not a college football podcast. Instead, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay talk about the future of the country and what recent…
The Pac-12, one of the nation’s Power Five athletic conferences, died last Friday. Some are even pinpointing the time of death — 7 a.m. The presidents and chancellors of the member universities were supposed to assemble in emergency session at…
Monday night in Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium, the TCU Horned Frogs had about as much chance against the fired-up Georgia Bulldogs as an armadillo has against a steel-belted radial. I’d repeat the score here, but the children might still be…
The inevitable happened last week in the world of college football. No, the big boys of the college game have not broken free of NCAA shackles to do their own highly profitable, self-governing thing. Not yet, anyway. The present inevitability…
Everybody’s waiting for the other shoe to drop in the conference realignment chaos that is major college football. The first shoe was a doozy. It left a Godzilla-size footprint on the landscape. If it was a carbon footprint, it would…
The football world lost one of its most colorful characters this week when Tony Siragusa died unexpectedly at age 55. “The Goose” played seven seasons with the Indianapolis Colts and five with the Baltimore Ravens, where he starred on the…
The best coach in college football, possibly the best in college football history, last week climbed down from his throne long enough to accuse a rival school, and by association, its coach, of buying football players. Nick Saban, coach at…
It’s become a cliché by now. But just because it’s a cliché doesn’t mean it isn’t the most accurate description of what’s going on. As predicted by pundits and insiders when name, image, and likeness (NIL) legislation was met with…
I heard it on Colin Cowherd’s entertaining radio show, and it was a statistic about Russell Westbrook, basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers. Westbrook, who lives rent-free in a room in Cowherd’s head (Aaron Rodgers and Baker Mayfield live…
