The final whistle has blown and a true champion has been crowned. It’s fitting, in the last year of the BCS, that a school who spent many of the formative…
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The B.C.S. Busters Volume Four (2007-2009)
On behalf of Place To Be Nation, college football and its flawed B.C.S. era get the ultimate do-over Be sure to check out Volume One, Volume Two, and Volume…
The B.C.S. Busters Volume Three (2004-2006)
On behalf of Place To Be Nation, college football and its flawed B.C.S. era get the ultimate do-over Be sure to check out Volume One and Volume Two of our…
NCAA Conference Championships 2013: The BCS Curtain Call
It’s conference championship week and for football fans, there’s a handful of great games on the schedule. When you hear the word “championship”, it conjures up visions of greatness, heroes…
Setting the Table: A Rivalry Week for the Ages
Last week, I prepared a piece highlighting the importance of last Saturday’s slate of big time matchups, especially concerning the BCS top five. The main focus of college football was…
The Final Countdown: 2013 Rivalry Week Ends With a Bang
Preseason favorites Alabama have a clear path to the BCS national championship, the last ever before the introduction of a four team playoff and potentially the Tide’s third straight (and…
Know Your Role: Role Players in the NBA
Basketball is unique among team sports in that one singular player can impact a game’s outcome more than in almost any other sport. It’s a “team game”, but the influence…
In Search of Hockey
On October 1st, the NHL opened its 2013 regular season with a marquee matchup pitting the defending champion Chicago Blackhawks against the Washington Capitals. The game in many ways was…
Running Out of Options?
Read Option QBs struggle early in NFL season. There’s perhaps not been a draft prospect at QB as hyped as Andrew Luck, hyped to the point that it was popular…
