January 10th, 2012: Barry Larkin gets is due

The major league hall of fame is such an interesting place. For those who have visited Cooperstown; you can attest to the majesty and aura that exists in those halls. Baseball is a special game and Barry Larkin was a special player who fully deserves this honor.

January 9th, 2012, National Championship Night

It's finally here. Five weeks since LSU played and six since Alabama played the Iron Bowl, they will play in the NCG tonight. Clay Travis wants you to celebrate correctly with the NCG drinking game.

BCS National Championship Drinking Game

January 8th, 2012; Racism? Really?

It's kind of unbelieveable that racism still exists.

Racism in Hockey

January 7th, 2012; It's not every day that a franchise gets its first playoff victory

There was something special about today's Texans-Bengals game, and that something was the fact that one of these two perennial losers was going to win a playoff game.

In what had to be one of the least intriguing and hype worthy matchups in a long time; the Texans coasted to a 31-10 victory and gave football crazy Houston a playoff victory and a chance to knock off the overrated Ravens in Baltimore.

It doesn't hurt that T.J. Yates is from Marietta either.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/recap?gameId=320107034

January 6th, 2012

Atlanta sports fans deservedly receive a lot of crap about not showing up to games. But people down here in Atlanta do love their teams (me included) and do not deserve this pile of garbage written by Rob Parker.

http://espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/story/_/id/7429623/the-city-atlanta-worst-sports-town-america

Seriously? How does someone let that get published?

January 5th, 2012; Ken Rosenthal is actually funny

The Marlins have turned into a circus with newly acquired Carlos Zambrano, and Ken Rosenthal wants in.

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/carlos-zambrano-addition-to-miami-marlins-makes-south-beach-the-place-to-be-in-2012-010412

January 4th, 2012; Sanity in college football?

Everyone knows that the BCS is a crapshoot, there is no denying that. Sometimes we forget though that BCS is not the end all be all to name the national champion. As recently as 1997 the AP national championship was just as well regarded and important as the BCS is now. In fact there are six polls that can name a national champion (AP, USA TOday Coaches poll, College football researchers association, Football Writers Association of America, National Football Foundation, and the Sporting News). Currently the USA Today Coaches poll, and the NFF are contractually obligated to award the title to the BCS champion. The AP still has (and did so in 2003) voted for a National Champion that did not play in the BCS title game.

Here's a link to a story about how AP writers may not be ready to crown 'Bama national champions if they win next monday.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/bowls11/story/_/id/7424042/allstate-bcs-championship-game-some-ap-voters-not-pick-bcs-winner-no-1

January 3rd, 2012; Lame Duck Coaches

After every season in the NFL there is always at least one coach left over that has not gotten fired. It is a coach that doesn't have the right response from his team, doesn't have the respect of his peers and the fans hate him. This year that coach is Norv Turner. The Chargers have had arguably one of the top 5 most talent laden rosters in the NFL for the past 5 years and Turner has just gone 3-3 in the post season and has not even made it to the postseason since 2009.

Why is he still around? It's almost like Wade Phillips two years ago still stuck with the Cowboys.

here's the link

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7420169/san-diego-chargers-coach-norv-turner-gm-aj-smith-keep-jobs

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January 2nd, 2012 The Hawks take a step

There are not many things in the sports world that can help me forget about a painful loss by UGA, but, the Hawks tried and succeeded.

The Hawks have an undeniable level of talent and this year is going to be their last opportunity to take their step to the upper echelon of the Easter Conference.

January 1st 2012, A(nother) new beginning.

Okay, so this whole blogging this is difficult for me. For the most part it is just way too difficult to find a subject interesting enough to write about, and then find a way to talk about that subject in a way that is interesting enough to read about.

The main issue is length. Why write something that is 1000 words if people only want to read 100?

So my idea is to find one sports story that is interesting enough to suggest for people to read. One story, every day.

So here's the one for today.

It is nice to see an athlete challenge themselves in such a way and for a good cause. Recently the Mets have told R.A Dickey that they don't want him to climb, and he's told them to screw themselves (basically). Great stuff. Gotta love knuckleballers.