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Fans ‘pylon’ the touchback rule debate
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Fans ‘pylon’ the touchback rule debate

Sports have always been a fertile breeding ground for debate.  As long as sports have been around, arguments about said sports have dominated the social discourse.  Discussions regarding the relative merits of certain players, coaches and franchises are essentially the driving force behind the entirety of sports-talk media—a lucrative industry […]

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Getting back to the sidelines

Sunday night couldn’t have been easy for Kevin Stefanski.  The Cleveland Browns—of whom Stefanski is the head coach—took the field against the hated Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC Wild Card game looking to win the organization’s first playoff contest since 1994 and take one step closer to reaching the Super […]

A fitting end to 2020
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A fitting end to 2020

Call it what you will—maybe a “Christmas weekend miracle”— but it looks like the Giants will be playing meaningful football in January.  But as thrilling as it may be for fans of Big Blue to still have a chance to see their hometown team in the postseason, it’s my solemn […]

No escape from NY
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No escape from NY

LIVE MIKE – by Mike Smith Rightly or wrongly, I like to think of myself as a pretty intelligent guy.  I’m a rational human being, more than capable of objectively looking at a situation and basing a decision off of facts, figures and observations. So why, then, do I let […]

Ready for another sports drought
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Ready for another sports drought

As much as it pains me to say it, we appear to be headed toward another “dark” time—at least when it comes to professional sports. Obviously, with everything going on in the world, I don’t want to be Mr. Doom and Gloom, but anyone reading this has to admit; after […]