ESPN color analyst Todd Blackledge labeling Kelly Bryant as "selfish" fit within the recent trend of game commentary increasingly resembling daytime opinion-driven filler. The sentiment behind the transferring quarterback's decision, hammered home when Trevor Lawrence went down in the first half of Clemson's 27-23 win over Syracuse, isn't new at all. The back in my…
The Open Man Saturday Six-Pack is back ... in podcast form! On tap is a loaded Week 5 slate, featuring four games with Top 25 teams meeting head-to-head. This week's games kick off in the Big 12 with West Virginia at Texas Tech, then finish up at night with BYU at Washington. We also have…
Among my earliest memories from tuning into SportsCenter each morning was the weekly check-in on Prairie View A&M. ESPN's flagship show never aired clips from the Panthers' games, but the program devoted a few seconds on Sunday mornings in the fall for an update on their exploits. Now, an unfortunate reality for programs below the…
Mike Stoops took the podium Saturday night wearing his white OU visor upside down and backward. For Oklahoma fans who swear Stoops is a deep state operative planted by the University of Texas, that was an apt metaphor for the defense Stoops is charged with coordinating. Ever since he was hired by older brother and…
It's that time of the week again where we talk about punting. That's right, it's another edition of the Third Phase. You know it, love it, and can't live without it. What would you do? Punters sometimes take on additional roles to help out the special teams. They might handle kickoffs. But they could also…
Is reality leading to conference realignment remorse? Perhaps that’s a rhetorical question. Even if the answer is affirmative, the membership of the Power Five conferences doesn’t figure to change for another five to six years. That’s about the time that new television contracts will be negotiated, and those negotiations could – could – lead to…
Welcome to The Open Man in The Morning, your A.M. primer on whatever the hell piques The Open Man's interest in sports and entertainment. A New Creed 2 Trailer Drops Today Per Screen Rant, the second trailer for the upcoming sequel to Creed drops today. I'm not sure if a trailer can assuage my doubts,…
Good morning, and welcome to The Open Man in The Morning. Enjoy a selection of news from around the world of sports and entertainment to accompany your bagels and coffee. September Isn't Basketball Season The cliche "too much of a good thing" exists for a reason. Everything has a saturation point: The NFL reached it…
Unintended consequences – two 50-cent words to describe luck and fate – are often cited when actions are taken to derive a certain outcome but another, sometimes opposite, outcome occurs. Those two words – unintended consequences – were often used during the Bowl Championship Series era in college football. Every time a flaw was discovered…
One reason that there was some doubt about how good the Big 12 could be this season centered on uncertainty at quarterback. Three-time defending champion Oklahoma had to replace a Heisman Trophy winner in Baker Mayfield, and contender TCU would be relying on a sophomore who had one career start. Texas has been searching for…
Maybe not the best, but arguably the most intriguing date on college football's Week 4 docket features a Friday night contest pitting UCF against FAU. The prominent spot on the calendar and national exposure for this Sunshine State showdown marks something of a milestone, a tangible manifestation of the potential many have long theorized Florida's…
It's that time again for another jam-packed edition of the Third Phase, which as you know is America's 400th Finest Column about punting. You know it and love it, let's get to it! Just Get to the Footage Already https://twitter.com/YahooSportsCFB/status/1041063568513409025 I couldn't ever imagine playing punt coverage on punt plays. It's pure chaos that flows…
Urban Meyer, his suspension served, has returned to active duty. His first public act as reinstated coach at Ohio State was to hold an hour-long news conference Monday in Columbus. During this deserved inquisition, this piece of advice seemed apt: When you find yourself in a hole, put down the shovel. Meyer, though, kept digging.…
Einstein’s theory of relativity encompasses two interrelated theories of special relativity and general relativity. Special relativity applies to elementary particles and their interactions, describing all their physical phenomena except gravity. General relativity explains the law of gravitation and its relation to other forces of nature. It applies to the cosmological and astrophysical realm. First, that explanation of one of…
This is something that's bugged me since the official College Gameday Twitter announced on Wednesday: I cannot figure out why Roman Reigns is the guest picker at TCU. TCU's campus is a less hostile environment for the current face of WWE than a typical wrestling crowd; Roman Reigns is currently the most divisive wrestler in…
