Even if Kelly fails in the pros, he'll be in high demand at the college level. Nick Saban and Bobby Petrino both flopped about as badly as humanly possible at the NFL level and wound up at better jobs when they returned to college. So even if everything goes to pot, he'll probably wind up in some really awesome job…

Kelly does utilize a running quarterback, but not nearly to the extent that, say, Rich Rodriguez or Urban Meyer do. You rarely see his QB's getting tons of carries, although they do put up lots of YPC. A lot of the Kelly run game comes from motioning guys into the backfield at the last second and obscuring which guy…

When is the last time Cleveland hired a coach of any proven quality? Butch Davis? No wonder they've sucked.

The NFL is not like college. Most programs in college just don't have the infrastructure to compete for titles, but in the NFL, anyone can put together a good team. The reason Cleveland has sucked has been mismanagement. If they've convinced Chip Kelly to come there, it leads one to think that management has finally…

I remember listening to Hannity's radio show on a long drive with a friend of mine and just laughing at how over the top he was in predicting Romney's win via landslide. He did this long, rambling "Sorry you sucked" speech to Obama that went through at least 3 commercial breaks. Just chiding Obama for being a poor…

I think the root problem there is that the coach didn't want Favre and yet the owner forced it anyway because that's just how he does things. It's symptomatic of the Jets' biggest problem: they have an idiot owning their team who just does things and forces his football people to make it work, even if it has next to…

Rex Ryan is probably the only competent person who has a job with the Jets these days. His defense was outstanding again. His GM has saddled him with a quarterback in Sanchez who simply isn't fit to start for any team in the NFL, and his owner gave him an additional media circus by foisting Tebow on the organization.

What I assume happened is someone had a quarterback with a strong leg and they punted on a 3rd down to avoid the all out punt rush. Strong leg plus nobody back there on the return and some luck with the roll....that's basically the only way I could see it.

She's mentioned in Cocaine Cowboys, but the story of Griselda Blanco is the main focus of Cocaine Cowboys 2. THAT was a terrifying woman.

The reason Robin Hood is such a powerful piece of folk lore is because of the character's adaptability. Robin's been re-shaped a thousand times, sometimes with little subtle changes but other times with these massive character overhauls. Robin's provided the template for half of your comic book and pulp heroes (Zorro,…

Yeah, you're right. But man, the parallels between the two sports are right there. Two niche (THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING NICHE) sports with definite geographic boundaries who wanted so desperately to expand and have seen it all blow up in their face.

You could write the same story about NASCAR. There are towns where people enjoy going to the race track to see the races, and then there's every other city in America. Yet, despite building a strong following in the Southeast United States, plus some other markets where the sport took hold (Pocono, Fontana,…

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I also hate the accompanying idea that someone who chooses not to have children does so "because they'd be an awful parent." Even if you think you'd do a good job raising a kid THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE TO. Jesus, you only get 65-80 years on this planet if you're lucky, why should anyone have to explain how they use…

He didn't write it. I didn't see it in the story, but Marquess Wilson recanted this whole nonsense via text message to the AD the weekend this letter was sent. This was some nonsense his stepdad likely dreamed up to salvage his draft prospects.

This just destroyed Portlandia. How do you satirize that?

This is just one small thing from the article, but I can't stop thinking about it: the word meritocracy is pretty much screwed, isn't it? It used to mean a nice thing, I reckon anyway. Who doesn't like the idea of people getting hired/promoted solely on their skills/determination?

The point is that popular football analysts like Peter King don't actually watch the game, or they watch it in snippets while eating a goddamned shit house full of food, or while talking to their BFFS like Tony Dungy. They're not watching what's happening, and they're just looking at sack stats after the game as they…

If Bob Costas actually wanted to talk seriously about something, he'd have used his soap box time to discuss the lack of concern most of society has with mental illness, and the completely inadequate job we do in helping people with serious problems get some kind of help unless they volunteer for it.

The idea that the murder of one's spouse would in any way be less likely to happen because of guns is frankly insane. If this was an argument about spree killings or just general gangland violence, both of which has increased (or in the case of spree killing, can only exist) because of guns, you'd have a point.