Weekly sports columnist Matt Hooper takes sports to a place it’s never been… improv theatre.
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Auburn’s 2009 record will be…
With the start of the 2009 college football season just days away, fans are beginning to wonder what they can expect from first-year Auburn coach Gene Chizik. Well…
Read the rest of this entry »Football’s [almost] back
It occurred to me as I was watching the Hall of Fame Game last Sunday [...]
Read the rest of this entry »RIP, Steve McNair: Remembering the former Titans quarterback
By now – regardless of how much or how little obsessed you are with football, you should be familiar with the tragic and bizarre shooting death of McNair and his 20-year-old girlfriend Sahel Kazemi at McNair’s condominium in Nashville.
Read the rest of this entry »Monday morning bull session: Matt and Kyle discuss the NCAA
Ever wonder what it’s like working with Matt Hooper and Kyle Whitmire? We talk in circles a lot and drive all of our co-workers crazy. Take this week for example, when we riffed on the NCAA…
Read the rest of this entry »ESPN’s Chris Fowler talks Alabama A-Day
ESPN college football analyst Chris Fowler discusses the impact of spring football across the nation after Alabama’s record crowd in 2007.
Read the rest of this entry »Mocking the Draft, First Round
New York’s Radio City Music Hall will be overrun with football fans during the 2009 NFL Draft beginning April 25. Detroit, a few months removed from the worst season in league history at 0-16, will make the first of 256 picks.
Read the rest of this entry »Seven Signs of the Sports Apocalypse
NFL players lost at sea, Birmingham sets a tennis attendance mark, A-Rod bitten by the karma bug…these are but a few of the signs that the end is near.
Read the rest of this entry »Conscience for Sale
From Manny Ramirez to Andre Smith, more and more athletes are making bad financial decisions, which would be bad enough if it weren’t for the recession.
Read the rest of this entry »Terry Bowden, unplugged
If you didn’t get enough Terry Bowden in this week’s paper, then you’re in luck! Here are those extended interview excerpts we promised from Matt Hooper’s conversation with the former Auburn and new UNA head football coach.
Read the rest of this entry »Terry Bowden’s coaching sabbatical ends at UNA
Terry Bowden, the scion of coaching legend Bobby Bowden and the former head coach at Auburn University from 1993 until 1998, has returned to the sidelines after an 11-year hiatus. He takes over the reigns at the University of North Alabama in Florence after former coach Mark Hudspeth elected to join Dan Mullen’s new staff at Mississippi State.
Read the rest of this entry »Holier Than Thou: Tebow’s a great story, but shut up about it already
Tim Tebow. Sure he’s great…a great quarterback, great leader, great human being…and no fan can honestly deny that they wouldn’t love to see him wearing their team’s jersey. So why do we hate him so much?
Read the rest of this entry »Year of the League, Pt. 2: The worst of the 2008 NFL season
In part two of our year-end NFL blowout, we present the worst 2008 had to offer. The worst players, worst team, worst game – even the worst product placement – of the 2008 season is chronicled below. And yes, there will be Brett Favre.
Read the rest of this entry »Year of the League, Pt. 1 – The best of the 2008 NFL season
In an average year, the NFL can’t carry college football’s jockstrap. The college game is more passionate and more affordable than the pro alternative with only a fraction of the prima donna element. But 2008 was no average year.
Read the rest of this entry »Poor Sports: The Recession Hits the Big Leagues
Are pro sports leagues recession proof? It appears that some are not. While the NFL is busy cost-cutting and laying off workers, the Arena Football League has gone bust.
Read the rest of this entry »Chizik an underwhelming end to an embarrassing search
Auburn fired Tommy Tuberville for this? Gene Chizik’s 5-19 record is hardly impressive in a league that includes the likes of Saban, Richt, Meyer, Miles, Petrino and Nutt. Regardless, he’s the Tigers’ new head football coach.
Read the rest of this entry »Electric Football: BCS Computers Ruining America’s New Favorite Pastime
It used to be, that human beings watched football teams play each other on the field, and used their own judgment to determine which team was better than the other. That was then, BCS is now.
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