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As another avenue to NFL dreams closes off for Tim Tebow, it seems prudent to look at some of the biggest collegiate stars that never quite cut it in their respective professional leagues in the last ten years. These guys aren’t draft busts-often times professional GM’s have been shrewd enough to recognize that these athletesContinue reading “NC Double A-The One’s Who Never Quite Made it in the Bigs”

Everybody and their mother is predicting a catastrophic meltdown for the San Francisco 49ers this season. It seems nothing has gone right since they moved from their namesake city of San Francisco to the South Bay to start the 2014 season. In January 2014, the 49ers entered Seattle with the hopes of returning to theContinue reading “Santa Clara, California, Is Not Ground Zero”

As A-Rod continues to pass baseball legends in the record books despite the best efforts of former Commissioner Bud Selig, I marvel at his persistence.  A-Rod was the MLB’s cockroach. No one wanted him there, and they did everything they could to get rid of him. When A-Rod was handed a 162 game suspension, itContinue reading “Will a Steroid User Ever Make it to the Hall of Fame?”

Let me get some qualifiers out of the way-the playcall was really, really, bad. Throwing it on the one yard line with Marshawn Lynch in the backfield? A man who has been stopped for no gain or negative yardage just 7% of the time in the 2014-15 season? So yes, bad. Unwise. Perhaps even incomprehensible. But notContinue reading “Why Pete Carroll’s Playcall Wasn’t the Worst Playcall of All Time”