The Open Man countdowns to the 2018 college football season with 129 — in honor of the 129 programs participating in the Football Bowl Subdivision this year — things we love (and some we hate) about the sport. Click the 129 Things tag to see every entry. For me, it was Bob and Max. I'm sure every…
Alabama football, for all its many All-Americans, NFL talents and national championship (real or conjured), never produced a Heisman Trophy before 2009. That factoid felt pertinent in the lead-up to the 2009 Heisman vote, which Crimson Tide running back Mark Ingram won by a historically narrow margin over Stanford running back Toby Gerhart. Gerhart's runner-up…
Did you miss me? I missed all of you. I thought it would be appropriate to bring this column back from vacation. Why do you ask? Well, the NFL Draft came and went. Of the more than 200 prospects selected over the weekend, four were punters. Three went in the fifth round and the fourth…
The Open Man's NFL analyst Chase Ruttig and Ryan Walsh of the Cohen and Walsh Project teamed up for a 2018 NFL Draft diary. Here are Ruttig and Walsh's HOT TAKES™ from the first round of the 2018 NFL Draft. Some strong language and overall silliness can be found below: 1. Cleveland Browns, Baker Mayfield, QB Oklahoma…
The Open Man countdowns to the 2018 college football season with 129 — in honor of the 129 programs participating in the Football Bowl Subdivision this year — things we love (and some we hate) about the sport. Click the 129 Things tag to see every entry. For the first 25 years of my life, I lived…
The Open Man countdowns to the 2018 college football season with 129 — in honor of the 129 programs participating in the Football Bowl Subdivision this year — things we love (and some we hate) about the sport. Click the 129 Things tag to see every entry. We still have what feels like a lifetime before the…
The Open Man is counting down to the 2018 college football season with 129 — in honor of the 129 programs participating in the Football Bowl Subdivision this year — things we love (and some we hate) about the sport. Click the 129 Things tag to see every entry. The Sun Belt is an awesome college football…
The first games of the 2018 college football season kick off 127 days from today. To commemorate, The Open Man begins the countdown with 129 — in honor of the 129 programs participating in the Football Bowl Subdivision this year — things we love (and some we hate) about the sport. Click the 129 Things…
The first games of the 2018 college football season kick off 128 days from today. To commemorate, The Open Man begins the countdown with 129 — in honor of the 129 programs participating in the Football Bowl Subdivision this year — things we love (and some we hate) about the sport. Click the 129 Things…
The first games of the 2018 college football season kick off 129 days from today. To commemorate, The Open Man begins the countdown with 129 -- in honor of the 129 programs participating in the Football Bowl Subdivision this year -- things we love (and some we hate) about the sport. A motion picture's score…
I like to keep an eye on the Football Championship Subdivision every autumn, having fallen in love with that level during my time covering it. Yet, despite following Kennesaw State's surprising rise to Big South Conference champions and run to the quarterfinals of the FCS Playoffs, it wasn't until today that I knew the son…
Friday, Friday, gotta Q&A on Friday. We are NOT going to the archives for this week's edition of reader Q&A. Oh, no. Your boy made time in his schedule to produce this week's Q&A session, which answers the challenge Scott Hall laid down on WCW Nitro 22 years ago when he demanded Billionaire Ted get…
The following feature ran on Sports On Earth in April 2016. The site was shuttered earlier this year. Bronko Nagurski’s backstory reads like a Paul Bunyan tale. One of the most celebrated athletes in American history, he made an indelible impression on collegiate and professional football as a two-way standout for the Minnesota Golden Gophers,…
The following originally appeared on the National Football Foundation's since-shuttered site in August 2016. An unlisted number came across Colorado defensive end Derek McCartney's phone one Thursday afternoon this spring. McCartney typically lets such calls go to voicemail, but something compelled him to answer on this occasion. Three years earlier, McCartney participated in a campus…
FACT: An SEC team has never lost to a 16-seed. — SEC Network (@SECNetwork) March 17, 2018 Above is the SEC Network's contribution to the first-ever No. 16-seeded upset of a No. 1. Congratulations, SEC Network, on accomplishing a feat that would seem as impossible as a 16-over-1: Making me feel bad for that losing…
