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Sports Central October 8, 2008 Kevin Beane |
The Super Sports Day Here are the big games across all sports. |
Sports Central October 13, 2011 Kevin Beane |
Week 1 College Basketball Preview As the college football season gets into full swing, we will soon have yet another "favorite sports time of the year" for this writer. |
Sports Central March 12, 2009 Kevin Beane |
2009 Week 1 College Football Preview Here's an early look at the most interesting games of week 1 in college football. |
Sports Central December 11, 2011 Angus Saul |
The Davis World Cup? Rumors have been circulating for a while now. Among the fans. Among the players. The Davis Cup has lost meaning! The format is redundant, even irrelevant in today's world. The tennis world is calling out for change! |
Sports Central December 14, 2005 Jeff Pohlmeyer |
World Cup Group of Death? The greatest sporting event in the world is taking place just a few months from now. No, not the Super Bowl, not the Olympics. The World Cup of soccer. |
Sports Central September 9, 2010 Kevin Beane |
College Football is Back in Big Way Labor Day weekend is, I submit, the most packed weekend in sports. |
Sports Central April 24, 2014 Kevin Beane |
World Cup Preview, Groups C and D The author examines eight teams in groups C and D and predicts the likely winners. |
Sports Central December 16, 2003 Jeff Zaginailoff |
The Solution to the BCS is a Playoff Tournament Despite recent efforts to reform it, the process for deciding the national champion in college football, the most noteworthy and public of all college sports, is still far from perfected. |
Sports Central February 9, 2012 Kevin Beane |
Week 1 College Football Preview As I do every year in this space, I look ahead and present my preview of the next college football season, which happens to be the earliest such preview known to man. |
Sports Central February 4, 2013 Andrew Jones |
NCAA Contenders and Pretenders As of the week 13 rankings released on January 28, 10 teams have been in the AP top five at one point or another this season: Michigan, Kansas, Indiana, Florida, Duke, Syracuse, Louisville, Arizona, Ohio State, and Kentucky. |
Sports Central December 15, 2014 Corrie Trouw |
2014 College Football Game Awards With the 2014 bowl season about to begin, it's time to hand out some regular season awards to the most memorable games of a thrilling season. |
Sports Central February 8, 2012 Andrew Jones |
Why Murray State Deserves a No. 1 Seed Murray State is 23-0. They have beaten one ranked team (Memphis) and only face one more before the end of the season (Saint Mary's). They currently hold a No. 7 ranking in the USA Today Poll and a No. 9 ranking in the AP poll. |
Sports Central April 14, 2005 Jonathan Lowe |
When Dripping and Driving Don't Mix So far, poor weather has effected sixty percent of golf tournaments in 2005. |
Sports Central September 13, 2007 Kevin Beane |
Slant Pattern Quick Hitches A brief look at sports topics includes predictions for Saturday's college football games and the Rugby World cup. |
Sports Central April 21, 2005 Kevin Beane |
Advocating the Johnny Walker Classic Yet another beauty of soccer revealed: you can still hope for a good result even if you play poorly. |
Sports Central June 19, 2008 Kevin Beane |
CONCACAF Reviews and Previews A look at the leaders and underdogs in the World Cup qualifiers. |
Sports Central December 20, 2012 Kevin Beane |
2013 College Football Week 1 Preview This year, the preview's earlier than ever! I'd also say we have a better slate of games upcoming in the first week of 2013 past. |
Sports Central October 10, 2011 Ross Lancaster |
Collision Course October is a time of sorting in college football. Teams have largely ceased to play non-conference opposition for the balance of the season, and have now moved into the meat of the season, conference play, whereby seasons will largely be judged. |
Sports Central November 21, 2007 Adam Russell |
BCS Still a Muddy Mess It is possible that only one of the top five teams in the BCS standings could end up in the National Championship Game -- Ohio State. |
Sports Central March 11, 2010 Kevin Beane |
College Football Week 1 Preview A look at the matchups kicking off the start of the college football season. |
Salon.com May 30, 2002 Andrew O'Hehir |
The greatest show on earth It's World Cup time again -- when more than a billion people will be enthralled not just by the joy of victory and agony of defeat, but also by the mystery and despair that is championship soccer... |
Sports Central May 22, 2014 Kevin Beane |
World Cup Preview, Groups G and H The author predicts the likelihood of success for teams from the USA, Germany, Portugal, and more. |
Sports Central September 9, 2013 Ross Lancaster |
The Cardinals' Dilemma In college football, more than any other sport, the early games matter due to a system that is reliant on human subjectivity. It's why millions love the sport and are frustrated with it at the same time. |
Sports Central October 27, 2004 Adam Russell |
Facelift in Order For College Football What college football needs is a complete overhaul of how it's structured, from the conference alignments to how the schedules are made up to determining a playoff system. |
Sports Central September 15, 2005 Adam Russell |
Another Exciting Weekend in Store This weekend in college football has 10 dynamite games on the schedule that promise to be real barnburners. Notre Dame vs. Michigan State, for instance -- Is Charlie Weis and the Irish for real? |
Sports Central October 1, 2012 Adam Russell |
Is the Offensive Explosion an Omen? With all this offensive production on both sides of the field, could this be an omen of things to come in college football? |
Sports Central October 26, 2010 Tom Kosinski |
Is the Tennis Season Too Long? The tennis season is way too long. Just like basketball, hockey, and baseball (the World Series hasn't even started yet and it's the end of October) tennis has become just another drawn out non-spectacle. |
Sports Central June 2, 2011 Kevin Beane |
2011 Gold Cup Preview Nearly a year has passed since the World Cup has passed, which is usually the beginning and the end of United States interest in soccer. |
Sports Central January 16, 2013 Greg Suttich |
March Madness Starts in January As we near the end of another NFL football season, we start to feel the blues. But then March comes and the event called March Madness gets us back on our couches cheering and fist-bumping over our favorite team while keeping our brackets and a pen within arms reach. |
Sports Central March 31, 2005 Kevin Beane |
World Cup Fever, Anyone? Sports fans who find themselves lost between seasons, or in the midst of boring ones, may find that soccer fills the void quite nicely -- particularly, the high-stakes, world cup level. |
Sports Central April 12, 2012 Kevin Beane |
Euro 2012 Preview It's getting close to time for the second-biggest global soccer spectacle, the Euros. Spain are the defending champions, and solidified their hold as the best team in the world by following that up by winning the World Cup. |
Sports Central May 17, 2007 Kevin Beane |
Sports Cultures in Focus: Australia Why is Australia so successful in sports? It has created the perfect sporting environment. |
Sports Central January 3, 2008 Kevin Beane |
Slant Pattern Quick Hitches Here are the college basketball games shaping up to be the most interesting on Saturday. Plus, a look at online sports games. |
Sports Central August 14, 2013 Andrew Jones |
An Anti-Conference Approach The past few years have seen a plague of movement in college football conferences to the point where the names don't even make any sense anymore. |
Sports Central November 22, 2007 Kevin Beane |
A New Dawn For Ohio State and Russia Ohio State will indeed be playing in the National Championship Game. Also, in soccer, Russia has an excellent chance to get beyond the group stage of a major competition. |
Sports Central February 23, 2009 Andrew Jones |
March Madness Conference Predictions Here's a look at who will potentially represent each conference, focusing especially on the mid-majors and who actually has some potential to make it past the first weekend. |
Sports Central May 9, 2014 Kevin Beane |
World Cup Preview, Groups E and F Groups E and F include Switzerland, Ecuador, Argentina, and more. |
Sports Central September 1, 2004 Jonathan Lowe |
A Rigorous Game Plan (Pt. 2) Here is a look at the big boys of college football's "major" leagues. The Big 10, Big 12, Pac-10, SEC, and restructured ACC each feature at least one top-10 powerhouse. |
Sports Central November 10, 2014 Ross Lancaster |
The Playoff's Budding Big 12 Dilemma In the new world of college football, some conferences haven't exactly made sense. |
Sports Central March 22, 2013 Kevin Beane |
The Other Tournaments of March The main one of these, of course, is the NIT, but two more have recently arrived on the slate to ensure that virtually every Division I basketball team with a winning record will playing somewhere with hardware on the line. Let's take a look at each. |
Sports Central November 29, 2010 Jonathan Lowe |
A Chance to Give Thanks Bright spots in each college football division. |
Sports Central May 31, 2007 Kevin Beane |
In Praise of Losing Teams Love sports, but don't like the stress associated with being a hardcore fan? Then pick a poor team to support. |
Sports Central June 30, 2009 Ross Lancaster |
So Close to Glory, But Getting Closer The US soccer team is the most skilled and talented than they have been in the past. |
Sports Central September 26, 2007 Jonathan Lowe |
When the Mighty Will Fall Predictions about which college football teams will not finish the season undefeated. |
Salon.com July 2, 2002 Andrew O'Hehir |
Ten things I learned about life and soccer from the 2002 World Cup There is a football God, and despite the wild twists and turns of this year's tournament, He's still Brazilian. |
Sports Central July 16, 2008 Ryan Ballengee |
Why Golf Needs an All-Star Game Golf needs an experience for fans that largely serves as a commercial for the sport and provides fans with a new level of intimacy with the game. |
Sports Central March 29, 2007 Kevin Beane |
European Soccer Gluttony The biggest country-level soccer competition besides the World Cup is probably the UEFA European Football Championship. |
Sports Central October 5, 2006 Ryan Hojnacki |
College Football Predictions: Week 6 College football picks for the upcoming weekend. |
Sports Central November 8, 2012 Kevin Beane |
Ranking the Networks I am a sports fan, and I actually like all of these channels. I say this because I don't want the programming directors of the networks low on the list to jump out their 45th-floor windows. |
Sports Central February 10, 2011 Kevin Beane |
2011 College Football Week 1 Preview The Super Bowl is over, but here's a college football preview to give football fans something happy to think about for the next half year. |