The stars may be aligning for the UW Men’s Football team to make a run at the Big Ten Championship and to have a shot at making the new College Football Playoff. The first indication …

On the surface of things, life is becoming quite difficult for the safeties. With new rules about hitting in the head and neck area, plus growing concern about knee injuries, …

The common idea for cornerbacks is that essentially, they are former wide receivers that just could not make the cut, whether it was catching ability or maybe just having a …

In the spirit of full disclosure, I would like to start this by saying that inside linebacker is my favorite position in football, and were I more athletically gifted it’s …

Comedian Robin Williams once said springtime is nature’s way of saying “let’s party” and that was certainly the vibe at Camp Randall this past Saturday. As the music was blaring …

So for anyone who read my rankings for defensive ends, I went on a bit of a rant about how defensive ends are being paid more than linebackers and that …

As the Florida sun was shining and my skin was frying, the golfers at Bay Hill were preparing for what would be the first Arnold Palmer Invitational without Tiger Woods. Woods, an eight-time winner …

Here’s something I do not understand. The single season sack record in the NFL is 22.5, held by Michael Strahan. Which would mean that the record for sacks per season, …

While it is rare to say this about small-market clubs, the 2013 Pittsburgh Pirates were certainly America’s Team. After two full decades of futility, a time in which Pittsburgh never …

The game of football is won and lost in the trenches. Even if a team has an insanely talented running back or quarterback, if they have no room to run …

​Although they are the center of every play, pitchers are not often hired for managerial posts when they hang up their spikes. According to SABR’s Richard Schumann, barely one-tenth of major league …