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 [...]

Gairzo shares his e-mails from A-list sports celebs offering their new years resolutions.
NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS IN SPORTS
About mid-November I sent e-mails out to twenty-five or so of my favorite “sports-lebrities”… You wouldn’t believe some of the responses I received. Those rude souls who didn’t bother to answer my e-mail probably won’t mind if I, [...]

Deep Into Sports editor Nate Barlow details ten of his favorite sports moments from the last ten years.
Top Ten Sports Moments of the First Ten Years of 20xx
Since the first ten years of the two-oughts are drawing to completion, I figured I’d come up with a top-ten list of my favorite sports moments of the [...]

Breaking down why TCU’s Gary Patterson deserves his AP Coach of the Year Award… and why his most distinguishing move occurred off the field.
Well-Deserved Recognition
Another BCS-busting first for the Horned Frogs of TCU–Gary Patterson has been named the first non-BCS conference Coach of the Year by the Associated Press.
The irony of that being [...]

Bowl season is upon us, kicking off Saturday, December 19, with two games, the New Mexico Bowl and St. Petersburg Bowl.
That being the case, here are my picks for this year’s match-ups–take them with a grain of salt, or perhaps a couple margaritas.
NON-BCS BOWL GAMES
NEW MEXICO BOWL
Fresno State vs. Wyoming – Dec. 19
Pick: [...]

Okay, I admit it: I’ve been slow on the uptake in commentating about the 2009-2010 NHL, NBA and college basketball seasons. It’s not that I haven’t been following those sports, but some years I follow certain sports more closely than others, and in 2009 I paid a lot more attention to college football than [...]