Quarterback Rhett Bomar, whose potential was sky high; potentially end his football career by taking money he didn’t earn. This brings up the age old question should college athletes get paid?
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A Sports Medley…….Part Deux
by Trevor Freeman
Upon reading our esteemed editor’s “Friday Free for All” and seeing that he was trying to wrest the title of “Most Random Writer” back from me, I knew action had to be taken. Like Maurice Clarett, I decided to bring four guns and a hatchet to this battle. And while I didn’t imbibe half a bottle of Grey Goose before writing there surely is some liquid grain still flowing through these veins. Without further ado, here is a medley of thoughts kicking around my extremely hungover brain this afternoon.
On your current sporting calendar, you won’t see a championship event in any of the big three (sorry, Hockey, but you’ve got to earn your spot back).
As the pages of the calendar year turn and we build toward the preclusion to the World Series, the kickoff of the world’s greatest game, the basketball World Championship and Tiger’s world domination, I want to talk about reasons.
The reasons why athletes do things.
Stupid, ridiculous “can-you-believe-he-did-that” things.
Especially lately, giving me the feeling that the world’s just a crazy, mixed-up place. And that most of the athletes listed below have been listening to Brad Paisely’s “Celebrity” on loop.
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A Midsummer’s Day Dream
It’s amazing how few articles there are worth writing anymore.
I’ve spent the last two hours blazing through sports sections, checking out college websites, doing obscure Google searches, but I’ve found nothing.
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English Premier League 2006-07
It is time for a football preview! Ok, so the American version doesn’t come for another 2 weeks or so, but this is the European version. As I vowed after the World Cup, my columns will continue to cover soccer. This is the first article covering the English Premier League.
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Walking off with it
David Ortiz has been pitched around in recent years’ MVP voting, but now he is flat out winning games for his team, and is that not the definition for MVP?
by Trevor Freeman
At first I poked fun, but now I embrace. For if ESPN is airing the “World Series of Darts”, then we now stand on the border of the greatest sporting event known to man. I’ll give you a hint.
65 teams of two.
A ten-foot table.
Full Pitchers of Natural Light.
Fifteen cups with a six-cup overtime.
That’s right my friends. It is time for ESPN to finally air the “World Series of Beirut”.
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Blame Bruce for setting a higher standard
By Sean Quinn
Juergen Klinsmann seems like a fine coach. Klinsmann seems like a good man. But so is Rumpelstilskin. And whether the next coach of Team USA is the former leader of the German National Team or the mythical German dwarf doesn’t really matter. Coaching doesn’t matter right now. Players matter and for America, unlike the rest of the world, our best athletes aren’t playing soccer. And until they do don’t expect anymore progress from our national team.
This is the first of a two-part series which will examine the state of Dallas-Fort Worth Professional sports teams as they make their way to or through their seasons. The Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Stars will be examined in this part.
The debate has raged on for years now. Major college sports have become some of the most enjoyable events for spectators, while also providing great opportunities for the athletes who play them. College sports provide drama, tension, produces die-hard loyal fans and of course, who can forget the infamous college football playoff system (aka BCS). It is through college that most student-athletes get the first real opportunity to show their abilities and maybe one day gets drafted professionally for the sport in which they participate. But where is the line drawn for the student-athlete? Why do kids really go to college? For all of my life I always thought the main reason for attending college was to get an education and if you were lucky enough and/or talented enough, you might even get the opportunity to play a sport. Bob Dylan once wrote, “The times they are a changin'” and that quote holds true in this situation. It’s now even being rumored these same student-athletes, who us spectators make into immortals, are now looking to get paid during their tenure at SCHOOL!
What??
Let’s stop right there.