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Sports Illustrated
January 31, 2002
Frank Deford |
Roots Black coaches still can't make headway in football...   |
Sports Central
November 24, 2004
Doug Graham |
A Stern Reaction to the Basketbrawl Did the punishment fit the crime? Hardly. But it certainly fit the backlash. |
Sports Central
December 30, 2005
Jeff Pohlmeyer |
College Football Bowl Season Thoughts Comments on the upcoming college bowl games. |
Sports Central
November 22, 2004
Damian Greene |
A T.O. to Kill As much as the Terrell Owens fiasco is stirring controversy purely because of indecency, there is that nagging feeling that the interracial aspect of the skit may have some bearing. |
AskMen.com
November 13, 2002
Mark Simmons |
Should Johnnie Cochran Sue The NFL? Why have there only been five black coaches in the past 16 years? In my opinion, this has more to do with upbringing, sociology and demographics. |
Salon.com
November 10, 2000
Allen Barra |
Have the Fighting Irish gone soft? Notre Dame is enforcing stricter academic standards in a push to deemphasize football. Why now? |
Sports Central
May 14, 2005
Greg Wyshynski |
The Jester's Quart's NBA Notebook The TNT Sports NBA studio show is the best thing on sports television right now... There seems to be this strange David Stern backlash from some NBA fans... etc. |
Sports Illustrated
January 9, 2002
Ivan Maisel |
More of the same Black college football coaches get snubbed for top jobs again... |
Sports Central
December 29, 2004
David Martin |
Pardon the Incoherence Bowl Week, an ESPN broadcast bonanza, is well underway, but this writer confesses to being not terribly interested. |
Sports Central
February 23, 2006
Bob Ekstrom |
All Hail King James, Savior of the NBA On Sunday, LeBron James became the youngest player ever to win an NBA All-Star Game MVP at the age of 21 years and one month. |
Sports Central
December 3, 2004
David Martin |
Bad Times For College Football Fans This college football season opened with as much hope and as great an expectation of success and great competition as any in recent memory. Now, we must consider what has gone wrong with the game of college football. |
Sports Illustrated
May 3, 2000 |
Jackson chases history with Lakers ...In Los Angeles, Phil Jackson will be trying to become only the second NBA coach ever to win a title with a second franchise... |
Sports Central
February 9, 2009
Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 15 A look at the top storylines from around the NBA this week. Plus, H-O-R-S-E coming to the All-Star Game, it's almost too good to be true. How can the league could possibly screw this up? |
Sports Illustrated
January 4, 2002
Tim Layden |
Willing And Able This much is true: On New Year's Eve, Notre Dame made the most of an unfortunate mulligan when it hired Tyrone Willingham as football coach to fill the void left by the disgraced George O'Leary... |
Sports Central
March 24, 2007
Bob Ekstrom |
In Hollywood, Everything's Zen There was a time when mutual contempt between Kobe Bryant and Phil Jackson gave the NBA its reason for being. |
Sports Central
December 22, 2004
Kevin Ferra |
The Nature of the Business It should be a collegiate rule that head coaching changes can not be made until after the bowl games have ended. The least they could do is give players the best opportunity to win the games that they have worked their entire lives for. |
Sports Illustrated
October 30, 2002
Phil Taylor |
Simply Excellent When a black head coach like Tyrone Willingham can be seen as the leading authority figure in his sport, when a black manager like Dusty Baker can sit back and wait for a bidding war over his services, there is something fundamentally different about racial attitudes in sports. |
Salon.com
April 18, 2001
Allen Barra |
Air ball Michael Jordan's rumored return to the court sounds like a great idea for the NBA. It isn't... |
Sports Central
December 15, 2008
Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 7 It's also the season for making wish lists. And NBA fans are no different. Here's a holiday wish list of five NBA things that should never be seen again. |
Sports Central
May 13, 2006
Greg Wyshynski |
Team Disoriented in the NBA The best news for the NBA this postseason has been the emergence of two true megastars: Kobe Bryant and LeBron James. |
Sports Central
March 8, 2006
Isaac Miller |
NBA Contracts: Guaranteed to Fail Free agents sign six- and seven-year deals for millions of guaranteed dollars. Then they put it into cruise control and collect their loot. |
Sports Central
December 28, 2009
Scott Shepherd |
NBA Grinches Ruin Christmas Kobe vs. LeBron on Christmas Day should have been the story of the week in the NBA, but instead, here's a list of the Grinches that stole the Christmas Headlines in the NBA. |
Sports Central
December 4, 2004
Greg Wyshynski |
Why Characters Count in Sports This isn't another essay about the sad state of citizenship in professional sports. However, while every sport needs its characters to draw us to the event, we still want our "characters" to have character. |
AskMen.com
September 17, 2013
Jeffrey Eisenband |
What's At The Core Of "The Soul Of College Football"? Author John U. Bacon digs into four top college football programs, in Fourth and Long: The Fight for the Soul of College Football. |
Sports Central
May 2, 2005
Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: Carlisle is Worthwhile There hasn't been a year in recent memory where the race for coach of the year was so close, particularly with the continuous coaching carousel in the NBA. Still, here are the viable candidates. |
Sports Central
January 22, 2007
Jonathan Lowe |
Busting the Door Wide Open With Sunday's results, the NFL won't only see a black head coach reach its modern championship for the first time. There is a guarantee that one will raise the Lombardi Trophy. |
AskMen.com
June 11, 2003
Mark Simmons |
NBA Coaches Dismiss Loyalty While players are cast as the prima donnas, it is really the coaches that star in the soap opera that is the NBA. |
Sports Illustrated
February 11, 2002
Alexander Wolff |
International Basketball Association? Expanding to Europe could be in the cards for the NBA... |
Sports Central
April 28, 2005
Matt Thomas |
NBA Action ... It's Still FANtastic! The NBA offers a better quality of games for fans than it has in the past. |
Sports Illustrated
November 9, 2001
Tim Layden |
Irish stew Is head coach Bob Davie solely to blame for Notre Dame football's slide? |
Sports Central
November 30, 2004
Mark Chalifoux |
Confessions of a Notre Dame Fan I like Tyrone Willingham and I really wanted him to succeed. He is a great person and a good coach, but his time at Notre Dame has been wasted. |
Sports Illustrated
December 31, 2001
Ivan Maisel |
Willingham will get the job done After failing in its first attempt to replace Bob Davie, when George O'Leary admitted to lies on his resume, Notre Dame is close to hiring Stanford coach Tyrone Willingham to revive its football program... |
Sports Central
October 15, 2008
Jean Neuberger |
The Tony Franklin Project Auburn's release of Tony Franklin was the result of an experiment gone horribly wrong. |
Sports Central
March 28, 2007
Aaron Miller |
While You Were Mad Interest in the NCAA tournament makes it difficult to follow your favorite NBA team. |
Sports Illustrated
March 5, 2003
Ian Thomsen |
Inside the NBA: Older, but Not Wiser A plan to push teens toward college by raising the minimum age could be a setback to future stars. |
Sports Central
December 8, 2004
Jason Hirthler |
Why NBA is Adrift in Middle America Where once the National Basketball Association was embraced across America's cultural divides, a phenomenon that bridged race and economic class, the league has devolved into style guide for disgruntled youth. |
Sports Illustrated
October 7, 2002
Phil Taylor |
Go, Johnnie, go Johnnie Cochran's plan to aid minority hiring in the NFL is overdue. |
Sports Central
December 19, 2006
Jonathan Lowe |
The Gab that Keeps Us Thinking The near-riot in Auburn Hills brought a sour taste to a sweet time of the year. Sure, there have been player brawls before, but they never got to the extent this one did. |
Salon.com
September 27, 2002
Allen Barra |
Notre Dame's return to glory! (Part 23) Why does the college's legendary -- but creaky -- football program have to keep coming back? |
Sports Central
September 14, 2009
Scott Shepherd |
The NBA's Real Officiating Problem For months now, the dirty little secret around the NBA is that the league is preparing for what could be a lengthy lockout of the NBA's referees. |
Sports Central
December 8, 2008
Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 6 Consider these five questions your Quarterly NBA Exam. |
Salon.com
October 31, 2000
Allen Barra |
The "transition" game The NBA is suffering, not because it misses Michael Jordan, but because there are too many teenage millionaires who can't shoot... |
Sports Central
November 12, 2005
Seth Berkman |
NBA Dollars and Sense Commentary on the NBA dress code being all about money, plus, news from around the league. |
Sports Central
May 13, 2005
Chris Speckman |
Starless Nights in Motown The Detroit Pistons have dispelled the widely-accepted notion that NBA teams need stars to win championships. |
Sports Central
March 5, 2009
Brad Oremland |
Why the Cowboys Cut Terrell Owens Did the the 2008 Dallas Cowboys implode because Terrell Owens is a headcase, or did Owens blow up because the team was imploding? |
Sports Illustrated
October 4, 2001
Frank Deford |
Around the horn A look at noteworthy items from the sports world... |
Sports Central
November 28, 2005
Andre Watson |
Random Thoughts on the NBA Season The league is completing just its first full month of action for the 2005-06 season and already there are several serious questions to be asked. |
Sports Central
November 10, 2008
Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 2 If the NBA season was "off and running" last week, it hit "full stride" on Wednesday. |
AskMen.com
Lewis Helfand |
Top 10 Coaches With The Highest Salaries Unproven coaches are generally not given gigantic salaries right from the start. They have to work their way up through the assistant level or prove their value coaching collegiate teams. And the 10 coaches at the top of the salary list are a perfect example of this. |
Sports Central
August 19, 2005
Eric Williams |
The Never-Ending NBA Season The NBA summer leagues provide us with the ultimate NBA reality drama: recent NBA draft picks and NBA-wannabees trying to impress fans and coaches while fighting for a job in the NBA. |
