On the Trail Blazers’ lousy start, Hassan Whiteside and my former boss, Alabama’s long snapper, a Texas grad assistant and all those $$ tossed around in college football
Things on my mind as we kick off a new (and hopefully far better) year …
• A statistical analysis of the Trail Blazers’ disappointing seven-game start to the 2020-21 campaign portends that the local NBA quintet is fortunate to be 3-4.
The off-season emphasis by general manager Neil Olshey was help at the defensive end, something that was a near-constant during Terry Stotts’ first eight years as coach.
How I became a Heisman voter, How the process works, and how I decided on DeVonta Smith …
In the 85-year history of the Heisman Trophy, only five receivers have won the award as college football’s premier player. So Alabama’s DeVonta Smith — named Tuesday as the 2020 recipient — is in with some exclusive company.
I was one of many throughout the country who cast a vote for Smith, the spectacular senior who was never better than he was on Dec. 19 when he helped No. 1-ranked Alabama get by Florida 52-46 in the SEC Championship Game.
A game for the ages in the fog at Reser
Here is what’s on my mind after Friday’s epic 41-38 Oregon State victory over Oregon in the foggy, eerie solitude of Reser Stadium …
• The Beavers’ come-from-behind win over the ninth-ranked Ducks becomes an instant classic in this, the strangest of all football seasons in the most unsettling year of our lifetime.