Gus Malzahn has slowly risen up the college football ranks from his days winning national championships at Arkansas? Springfield High School to his prolific offenses at Tulsa, Arkansas and Auburn. It was a slow rise, but Malzahn has been doing this so long that he’s still only 46. In December, Malzahn made the leap back into the ?head coaching seat [&hellip

  I don’t read the International Business Times but today I stumbled upon a sports column on their site that made the Wall Street Journal read like the ESPN Sports Almanac. After reading it, I reached in my drawer and threw a flag on the table. It reminded me of why ?news writers should stick to politics and stay out [&hellip

I’ll deviate a bit here but follow me: With the first overall pick of the 2007 NBA Draft, the Portland Trailblazers selected 7-foot center Greg Oden over a silky smooth, long, and athletic small forward named Kevin Durant. Oden was meant to be cornerstone of the Blazers for the next 15 years. Instead he’s only played 82 games in five [&hellip

1) Rumors circulated today that the Lakers had signed former All-Star shooting guard Gilbert Arenas. Fortunately, they proved to be false. Besides the next time Metta World Peace loses it, do you really want to take a chance that he knows where Arenas stores his locker room piece? (see: John Brisker)   2) JR Smith made his Knicks debut on [&hellip

  While the BCS and the NCAA are engaged in a full sprint towards a playoff that should have been in place a decade ago, the NCAA?s student-athletes are again being ignored. Instead of subtracting a game from the regular season, the NCAA is set on maximizing its profits by incorporating a playoff into its regular season. ?That?s fine. It’s [&hellip