The SportsTalk Shop: HS Football – One MonthIn
Since we started the high school football season, I guess it shouldn’t be hard to believe that we are already halfway through the regular season (although with the expanded playoffs, we still have over two months to go). With that said, I wanted to recap some of the major high school sports stories in the…
Read MoreBehind the Mic: NFL Odds
Since there were so many upsets the first two weeks in the NFL, I got to wondering how the Las Vegas odds makers were faring. Las Vegas is one place with a legal US sports book for gamblers. There are, also, legal online sites…OR you could choose a local guy, but you should understand that…
Read MoreThe SportsTalk Shop: The Partnership
If you go back through the archives and read one of the earliest “SportsTalk Shop” blog entries that I ever wrote, I spoke at length about my admiration for The Morning Call Senior Sports Writer, Keith Groller, for a number of reasons. One of the biggest reasons was how much I was impressed by his…
Read MoreBehind the Mic: Common Sense
Thomas Paine wrote three works that, after this weekend, seem appropriate to reflect on as they pertain to the National Anthem and some players in the National Football League. The titles of these three works speak volumes in themselves – Common Sense, The Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason. When I was teaching,…
Read MoreThe SportsTalk Shop: The New PIAA Classifications
The biggest topic of conversation has been the shift from four classifications to six, with many schools moving to new groupings, approved by Pennsylvania’s governing body over high school sports—the PIAA. We had a chance recently in studio to discuss this big shake-up with local media members… Coming up on this Thursday’s live show at…
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