The next NCAA Division I Football Championship game – on Jan. 7, 2011 – will be in Frisco, Texas, at Pizza Hut Park. Not everybody is happy about this, with Greater Chattanooga Sports and Event Committee president Scott Smith putting it succinctly: “I am sick over this decision.” I’m a bit surprised, too. There are, [...]

The gal-pal goes to sleep and gets up before I do, and she nodded off before the men’s figure skating finals had ended Thursday night. She mentioned this to me this morning. Um, I said, as brightly as I could. “Did Plushenko win the gold medal?” she asked. No he did not, I replied. “Did [...]

I got a chance to watch part of Saturday’s Texas vs. The Nation all-star football game, specifically the third quarter, and Shann Schillinger was in there running around. The Baker product ended up with three assisted tackles for the Nation, in a 36-17 loss to Texas in the 4-year-old game. Not great numbers, but these [...]

As if to prove the axiom in my previous entry, the Website Deadspin.com compiled a list of college football coaches waxing superlative about their signing classes. Good stuff. Here’s a follow-up story I wrote for Friday’s Missoulian about a couple day-after signees for the Robin Pflugrad’s Montana Grizzlies — though it should be noted that [...]

Has any football coach ever got to the podium and said, “Well, sorry folks, but we dropped the ball on this one…”? It won’t happen.