University of Kentucky rookie phenom Nerlens Noel’s recent ACL tear has sparked a debate over when a player should be allowed to declare for the NBA Draft. Currently, the NBA’s age minimum is 19 years,...

There is one name in baseball that is synonymous with conning organizations into agreeing to long-term, overinflated contractual prices that are well over players’ market values: The one-and-only Scott...

A couple weeks ago, I went to get some food with my roommates at Late Nite Kitchen. On one of the TVs, there was a basketball game between the University of Texas and West Virginia University. Being a...

While I was scanning ESPN I came across a headline reading, “UIC honors Curtis Granderson.” Naturally, since this was about the Yankees ever-so-famous centerfielder, I clicked on it. “The University...

“Down goes number one!” It’s the headline that you’re probably getting sick of hearing on SportsCenter. For the fifth straight week, the nation’s number one team in college basketball has lost....

Pull any sports fan aside and ask him or her what his or her favorite sports team’s tradition is and you’ll encompass a variety of answers. “Players taking shaving cream to the face!” “Ignoring...

I do not profess to be the greatest BU hockey fan. In fact, I still don’t understand all the basic rules of the sport of hockey. I don’t know exactly when it’s icing and when it isn’t. I’m more...

You have definitely heard it before: “Why doesn’t college football implement a tournament like March Madness? College basketball does it, right?” It seems as though everyone feels this way. This...

Anyone who has flipped on ESPN or tuned-in to sports radio in the past week has surely been bombarded with the name Manti Te’o and his newfound “girlfriend” controversy. Even though Te’o has been...

Athletes are special people, not because of how they play the game but for what they do. They have the guts to go out on the playing field, fail in front of everyone and risk failing again on the very...

An old friend of mine contacted me recently to see if I wanted to compete with him and a few other comrades in ESPN’s “College Bowl Mania”. Admittedly, “Bowl Season” does not excite me at all...

So, I made a mistake. That’s refreshing to hear from a sports columnist in this town, isn’t it? It was in the Nov. 13 issue of The Daily Free Press, while assessing the Heisman candidates that I...