Behind the Mic: Four Is Not Enough
If any college football fan doubts the wisdom of a four-team College Football Playoff system, this past weekend should eliminate those doubts. The Selection Committee has no choice under the current system. They can choose four and ONLY four. The idea in the beginning was that conference champions would fill the four slots. The only…
Read MoreThe SportsTalk Shop: Year-in-Review 2016: VOTE NOW!
It’s almost time for our annual “year-in-review” special on RCN-TV and this year, we want to incorporate your opinions on the top team, players, games and more! Senior Morning Call Sports Writer Keith Groller and I will be giving our picks for our favorite sports moments of 2016—and your votes will help shape who we…
Read MoreBehind the Mic: Dream Come True
High school football is winding down and college football has come to a close. College basketball has begun and high school basketball is right around the corner. That can only mean that it is once again time for one of my favorite nights of the year and it has nothing to do with athletics. It…
Read MoreThe SportsTalk Shop: The HS Basketball Poll “Tease”
Sometimes I think I have a big mouth! As we got to the end of the high school football season (a campaign that FLEW by this year), I mentioned both here at “The Shop” and on “RCN SportsTalk presented by The Morning Call” that our football poll season went by much too quickly and that…
Read MoreBehind the Mic: Oh, Those Eagles
I know this will show my age, but when I was a little kid, I was a Baltimore Colts fan. Does anyone remember the Baltimore Colts (not the Ravens, not Indianapolis – Baltimore). I was seven years old in 1953 when the Colts took the field at Memorial Stadium. I don’t remember if I became…
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