When old athletes hang on and pull out one more moment, it’s always thrilling, encouraging, heart-warming, inspirational. George Foreman won the heavyweight title at 45. Jack Nicklaus won the Masters at 46. Before that, Jimmy Connors, well past his expiration date, almost won the US Open. Tom Brady is 43, but a football season isn’t …
It’s going to be hard not to stare. James Harden, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant all together on one court at the same time on one team, the Brooklyn Nets? With one basketball? This is an explosion waiting to happen, with only rookie coach Steve “White Privilege’’ Nash to hold it together. He can’t. He …
There is an old football saying that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the Chicago Bears to find a quarterback. Bears ownership made that official Wednesday, announcing that they’re bringing back two Bears culprits for another season: 1) General manager Ryan Pace, whose job will be to find another …
It’s hard to keep finding ways to inflate the word “greatest.” After Clemson won the national championship two years ago, blowing out the all-time greatest Alabama, the Tigers were the new greatest team ever. And that made last year’s LSU team the greatest-est. So what does that make Alabama after its 52-24 win over Ohio …
The Chicago Bears’ season, their entire identity and pretty much everything wrong with them, were all sitting there on their 18-yard line with 1:49 left in the first half. Six years building had led to just this moment. How did they handle it? I’d say that they failed, but that would be generous. This was …
Jim Harbaugh was the Ferrari your neighbor parks on the driveway for everyone to see. He was the three-carat diamond ring a friend shows off to overtake your party. When Harbaugh came back to Michigan, he was there to coach, of course. But he was also brought in for show. Michigan was saying, “Look at …
Ohio State doesn’t have a COVID problem. It’s just claiming it does because it needs time so quarterback Justin Fields can heal up and be fully ready for the national championship game against Alabama. That’s assuming Ohio State doesn’t chicken out of the game entirely. I read that on Twitter, so it must be true. …
It was 2013 when I first met Mack Brown. He was in trouble as Texas’ football coach, though he’d won a national championship and gotten the program back into the nation’s elite. Suddenly, his recruiting slipped, and things seemed to pass him by. His office was enormous and had a huge fish tank. On his …
Last year, the Chicago Bears went 8-8 and missed the playoffs. This year, they went 8-8 and made the playoffs. I guess that’s what the Bears call progress, though they wouldn’t have made it this year either, if the NFL hadn’t expanded the postseason and taken more teams. So it’s not as if the Bears …
