NTSF: A Superconference Cautionary Tale
I’ve been rolling around in my head an article about the impending advent of superconferences in college sports. (Maybe that’s why this column is two days late in arriving…) In the wake of the SEC deciding not to expand at this time, coupled with the growth of the Big “Ten” and the Pac-12 (easily altered from the Pac-10) and the moves around the non-AQ conferences (see: Boise State replacing Utah in the MWC, TCU’s... Read More
NTSF: Choosing Your Own Team
Before there was Global Turnstile, there was A Non-Traditional Sports Fan in America. The column, formerly a staple of weekly coverage of international sports, is being revived at the new website as a depository for thoughts on various issues confronting sports fans. Be sure to tune in every Thursday as we take a look at sports in America from a different perspective… Welcome back to the rebirth of the column that started it all. This week... Read More
NTSF 121: The Life of a Blessed Sports Fan…
I’ve been thinking the past few days about just how blessed I am as a sports fan. Perhaps it is just the glow after finishing the first draft of my first book, achieving the New Year’s resolution I set on the first of January 2010 of having this thing completed and ready to edit by the 31st of January 2011, that has me all aglow. If — nay, when – everything goes right, one way or another, the book is going to be in print before the... Read More
NTSF 116: Why we root the way we do…
It is something that so wholly encompasses the sports fan’s consciousness that it seems second nature. Yet it is one of those things that the fan rarely thinks about as he goes about his daily existence. Rooting for his team or teams, year after year, there are precious few occasions on which he finds himself questioning why he continues to offer his support, year after year. Read More Read More
BCS Buster Power Rankings: Week 4
And then there were four. We came into the fourth weekend of the 2010 season with just six teams harboring realistic hopes of busting through the BCS hoops and reaching one of the big bowl games. Only one team east of the Mississippi still held dreams of becoming the first squad from outside the MWC/WAC non-AQ hegemon to earn a lucrative BCS berth. But after two of those squads, including the lone MAC wolf (er, Owl), dropped heartbreakers on the road... Read More
