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By the way, football is back. Hey, hey, try to keep it down, else the guy next to you at the bar gives you a funny look and moves down a stool. You don’t want to be that guy, do you?

The season is almost over for me—one more night to go. For the McNeese State Cowboys, it’s only just beginning.

I’ve been to New Jersey. Well, I guess the Newark airport halfway counts; though I’ve never been to Paterson or Cherry Hill or any real town in Jersey, so I don’t know if I can really say I’ve been there.

My buddy Jeff and my quest to see UFC 116 this past weekend ended in a technical knockout. Didn’t even make it out of the first round, really.

There I was, minding my own business.I was on vacation in Memphis, relaxing after having written my Tour de France column and spending some quality time with my wife, friends and family when, out of nowhere, it seemed the whole sports world went spinning off its …

My lovely wife isn’t really into sports, but she’s more than willing to learn.

“They” have a lot of sayings. For instance, they call soccer “the beautiful game.” Poetic folks, “they” are. But what I saw from the United States men’s national soccer team in their international friendly against the Czech Republic was anything but …

I was an investor when I was a child.Yep, every week I put aside whatever change I earned or what my parents would give me and I would invest it in the latest hot commodity among 5-year olds—baseball cards—thinking that, one day, I would be able to cash out early and be able to take a trip to my …

Friends, I would like to ask you this week to take a little time and say a quiet prayer for your friendly, neighborhood high school sports writers.They are going to need it.

It’s a bit strange.I mean, I like baseball and all, but you know you’ve got baseball fever when you’re sitting on your couch in the middle of the day watching two teams you could care less about play a Spring Training game that, in the grand scheme of things, doesn’t …