The SportsTalk Shop: Playoff Football Primers
The state high school football playoff season is officially underway in Pennsylvania (it actually started last week for Lehigh Valley teams due to the expanded playoff format, but we’ve talked about that in great detail before…) There are several big matchups coming up this weekend. Here are some insights on each of the games which…
Read MoreThe Sports Talk Shop: FINAL HS Football Poll
Whew…that was fun! First of all, a huge “thank you” to the media members and head football coaches that participated in a…well, rather “wild” high school regular season-worth of polling. In a dozen years of covering scholastic sports and running a poll, I’ve never seen the number of different teams mentioned in a poll, nor…
Read MoreBehind the Mic: China Super Bowl
I know Donald Trump constantly complains about our inability to compete with China imports. No one says much about American exports, but this past month one such export finally was brought to fruition. After four years in the planning stages, China imported American arena football. And their league’s version of the Super Bowl is being…
Read MoreThe SportsTalk Shop: HS Football Polls – Week 10
We’ve talked quite a bit this fall about how the early start to the high school football season has made the season go faster than normal. That fact has almost been lost as a few of the winter sports coaches whose school will now probably not make the playoffs. In talking with several of them…
Read MoreBehind the Mic: Watching Baseball
The Chicago Cubs have me watching baseball again. And I would suspect a larger number of people will tune in to see if the Cubs can win their first World Series since 1908, 108 years ago. Teddy Roosevelt was the president. They last played in the World Series in 1945. The Cleveland Indians have not…
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