Could the Bowl Championship Series fall victim to its own biased design?
BCS Beware!
Let’s take a few lines to recount everything good that the Bowl Championship Series has done for college football:
Oh, wait, I almost forgot–the BCS has done nothing worthwhile for college football.
Last year I extrapolated on a Yahoo! Sports article by Dan Wetzel in [...]

BCS controversies–has there been a year without one? A big thank you to our friends at Sports Management Degrees for the following post, just in time for the launch of the new college football season.
BCS Controversies by Year

The BCS and controversy go together like maize and blue, scarlet and grey, crimson and cream or [...]

The Butler Bulldogs are no Final Four Cinderella. Here is a breakdown of just how they became a true mid-major basketball powerhouse.
How Have the Butler Bulldogs Built Themselves into a Final Four Team?
A few days ago, when addressing the Butler Bulldogs’ march to the Final Four, we analyzed what were the necessary steps for [...]

First there was Gonzaga; now Butler. What do other mid-major basketball programs have to do to follow in their shoes and build a nationally ranked program year-in, year-out?
Building a Successful Mid-Major Basketball Program
For the second time in five years, a true mid-major has made it to the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament’s Final Four. [...]

March Madness is living up to its billing in the 2010 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.
Oh, What a Sweet Sixteen It Is!
Sweet Sixteen, indeed!
After serving up one of the most exciting opening weekends in years, who else can’t wait to see what the 2010 NCAA Tournament dishes out for an encore?
Three double-digit (and four lower-half of [...]

Ohio State’s Jim Tressel shows another side in his answers to an Outlook Columbus interview.
Rethinking Jim Tressel
I may have to rethink my opinion of Jim Tressel. I’ve never been shy in my criticism of the Ohio State Buckeyes. Year in, year out, I believe they are the most overrated team in NCAA college [...]

The 2009-2010 NCAA College Basketball regular season is drawing to a close, and Deep Into Sports takes a look at the best and worst from this past year.
NCAA College Basketball: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
With the NCAA Men’s Basketball regular season wrapping up this weekend and the madness before March Madness about to [...]

Much like in college football, it’s not just the big boys seeing success in college basketball these days.
Cornell Ranked for the 1st Time in 59 Years!
Don’t look now, but Cornell is ranked in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll. Yes, an Ivy League team. For the second straight week.
Even better, the Mountain West Conference–the [...]

The Connecticut Huskies are dominating NCAA women’s basketball in a manner accomplished by only a handful of others in sports history.
59 and Counting…
Parity is generally a good thing in sports. The more teams or athletes that are competitive, the more fans that stay interested throughout the season and the greater the overall health [...]

Could Winter 2009-2010 be one of the most disappointing sports seasons ever?
Sports Disappointments, On and Off the Field
Sports, by their very nature, are filled with disappointment. To quote Highlander, “There can be only one.” In any given sport, in any given event, a single, solitary champion (okay, college football occasionally accepted, more on [...]