When Mental Health and Sports Cross Paths, it’s Hard to Know Where the Line of Criticism Should Begin Anyone following the general sports world at all has been bombarded the last few days. Simone Biles withdraws from Olympic Gymnastics competition with mental health issue. Biles exits Olympics with apparent injury…

The Men’s Tour de France completed on Sunday (I am enjoying the women’s version being raced this week and you should be watching too, but I don’t know nearly enough about the women to write about it yet because of a lack of tv coverage in the US). After 3.5…

So last night I wrote a mostly glowing review of Wrestlemania Night 1. Night 2 was not as good. But it was better than I expected. I expected something like last year. Last year was basically the end of me as a WWE fan. I loved Night 1. I hated…

I’ve had a bit of a love/hate relationship with professional wrestling. Watched it but never saw the allure as a young child. Got into it during the Monday Night Wars/Attitude Era (roughly 1997–2001) and tailed off as life got more busy after that. Got back into it roughly 2014 and…

Normally, I try and keep this thing unbiased. Those of you who know me personally or maybe know me from twitter or College Football Overnight know that I am an Auburn alum and root fiercely for my team. So for this week’s review, I am going to dispense with the…

It had been two years. The pandemic being what it was, we got nothing like this in 2020. So we have to go back to 2019. Except that we didn’t get it that season either because everything was so top heavy. We really didn’t get it in 2018 either. Or…

Consensus around college football seems to be that this season is more wide open than most recent seasons. The question of course is why? And not in a I’ve seen this with my eyes over the first three weeks of the season. …

The year was 2004. Florida had just fired Ron Zook after an embarrassing loss to a terrible Mississippi St. team. Then athletic director Jeremy Foley said those words when asked why Zook was fired in the middle of the season. Back then, if a coach was fired in season, it…

What is a Chiziking? My definition is firing a coach two years after a National Championship specifically for on field issues. Named after former Auburn coach Gene Chizik, this is something that can only happen at a handful of programs at the very top of the sport. For one thing…