Add Oklahoma to the teams that do not believe Johnny Manziel when he says he probably runs a 4.5 or 4.6 40-yard dash. He may join Robert Griffin III and Michael Vick as the only quarterbacks to break the list
After 14-point underdog Louisville defeated SEC powerhouse Florida in Wednesday’s Sugar Bowl, the SEC’s supremacy was questioned. Earlier in the bowl season, Mississippi State lost by 14, LSU was upset and then Florida was stunned in the biggest upset in
As we close the calendar year, the following is our ranking of the Top 100 college sports programs. We rated only team sports as opposed to individual sports such as golf, tennis and gymnastics. Ratings by statistician Kenneth Massey (www.masseyratings.com)
Analytics are the quest for truth. When a basketball player scores 22 points and a team wins by 12, some fans will make silly assertions like, “they would have lost by 10 if he weren’t there.” In fact, if “he
Actual 2011 BE before Lville, ND, WV, Rutg, Pitt & Syr left Proposed BE adding Houston, SMU, UCF, Memphis, Temple & Tulane C7 plus Xavier, Butler & VCU (best possible conference) C7 + St.L, Dayton, Xavier (true All-Catholic) Lines filled
The “Catholic 7” basketball schools made sports news this week by deciding to break away from the Big East to form a new league that would include an eighth Catholic school (Xavier) and recent Final Four teams VCU and Butler.
A review of the turnout model first presented prior to last week’s election still shows the road map for victory in 2016 based on five factors. First let’s look at the model, where 121 boxes represented 242 million American adults.
Real Clear Politics rephrases the title of Paul Krugman’s latest New York Times piece as “You’re Stupid If You Think It’s Close.” In it, Krugman writes, “Nate Silver (who has lately attracted a remarkable amount of hate – welcome to my
TV viewers watching news of the approach of Sandy last week may not have thought much of President Obama’s urgent appeal to supporters to vote early. While no one who has worked turnout operations and statistic models ever accepted Nate
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Former “Sons of Anarchy” actor Johnny Lewis was found dead on Wednesday in a Los Angeles neighborhood where he was suspected of killing an 81-year-old woman whom he may have been renting a room from, police
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – New Orleans police issued an arrest warrant for Cuba Gooding Jr on Tuesday after the actor allegedly pushed a bartender twice during a dispute in the city’s renowned French Quarter. New Orleans police said the incident
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Warner Bros. movie studio postponed until early next year the release of “Gangster Squad,” a crime drama featuring a scene with a movie theater shooting that prompted concern following last Friday’s fatal attack in Colorado.
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s powerful Central Military Commission has approved the formal establishment of a military garrison for the disputed South China Sea, state media said on Sunday, in a move which could further boost tensions in already fractious region.
NASHVILLE (Reuters) – Hank Williams, Jr. is a country singer, record executive and political pundit, and he wears all those hats on his new CD, “Old School, New Rules”. He picks up on politics where he left off last year
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Pop star Rihanna has sued her former accountants for mismanaging the singer’s finances, including claiming they earned huge commissions from concert tours that resulted in her losing millions of dollars. In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – One hundred celebrities backed a Greenpeace campaign against oil drilling and unsustainable fishing in the Arctic on Thursday, as oil giant Shell prepares to start exploratory drilling in the region. Paul McCartney, actor Robert Redford
TORONTO (Reuters) – A concert by the British rock band Radiohead was canceled after the roof of an outdoor stage collapsed during sound checks and rehearsals before the show on Saturday, killing one person and injuring three others, police and
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Ben Affleck will join Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday in Washington D.C. to draw attention to the high rate of preventable child mortality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The event, which will
LOS ANGELES, June 10 (Reuters) – Animated family movie “Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted” beat sci-fi thriller “Prometheus” to the top of weekend box office charts with $60.4 million in the United States and Canada, according to studio estimates released
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc unveiled a new effort to develop original comedy and children’s TV shows to distribute over the company’s video streaming service. The move is part of a broader push by Amazon to produce its own
LOS ANGELES, April 29 (Reuters) – Romantic comedy “Think Like a Man” easily beat four new films to win the U.S. and Canadian box office race for a second time while superhero movie “The Avengers” stormed into overseas theaters with
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hollywood trade paper Variety, one of the oldest and most respected sources of information for the entertainment industry, is being put up for sale, owners Reed Business Information said on Friday.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel has asked the United States for advanced “bunker-buster” bombs and refueling planes that could improve its ability to attack Iran’s underground nuclear sites, an Israeli official said on Thursday.
