When the news of Junior Seau's death broke, this, in combination with what happened to Dave Duerson, Ray Easterling, and going back a little further, Chris Henry, Mike Webster and other players who were discovered to be suffering from the effects of CTE (although they've not ruled that in Seau's case, I believe CTE experts are examining the case), ( Read more... )

It could be a while before Michigan has any marked trouble selling out the Big House, and the only thing that they could point to is exactly the thing we celebrate and revere often here - the relative success of our football program through the years. A vast, active alumni/ alumnae base and student body and devoted fans of both the team and NCAA ( Read more... )

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They get sparse in the Tournament when I think about how many teams in the Western US have made to the Final Four in the past 20 years. I am sure UCLA and Arizona have been there a couple times, and Utah went once in the 1990s, as I recall. Other than that, it seems to me that the only team west of the Mississippi that have been there with any ( Read more... )

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Magic's rather flat narration aside (the pacing of this is bothering me some too), I also remember being, for a few moments, absolutely floored and speechless. However, it dawned on me that the courage that it took to reveal it in the way he did was incredible, and I admire that much of the thrust of his foundation has been to show that HIV can ( Read more... )

http://youtu.be/KilBvojsMdw - accompanying music for BEAT OHIO.

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