Posts by Michael Weinreb
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Have a Little Faith
Thanks to Manti Te’o and Brian Kelly, Notre Dame football is back — for now.
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Don’t Look Now — Rutgers Is 6-0
But does anyone care? A look at the NYC area’s best and only hope for a college football favorite.
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In Memoriam: Alex Karras
I imagine there are worse things to be remembered for than felling a horse with a single punch, but it should be noted for posterity that this was not the only highly theatrical brawl of Alex Karras’s career. In 1963, a professional wrestler named Dick the Bruiser strutted into the Lindell AC Bar, a Detroit […]
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Returning to State College
In the aftermath of incomprehensible tragedy, Penn State is slowly relearning the meaning of football.
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West Virginia’s Magical Realism
Bearing witness to Dana Holgorsen’s maniacal Mountaineer offense.
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That’s Right, the Pirates Had Another Losing Season
Here, for the paranoiacs and conspiracy theorists in our midst, is a brief peek behind the journalistic curtain: Sometimes those of us in the press chase after stories because they are there at that moment, and we figure they might not be there forever. Sometimes we pursue the narrative of a certain player or a […]
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A Nice Place to Visit
Examining the failures of Los Angeles as a football town after USC and UCLA suffer disappointing losses on consecutive weekends.
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Beautiful Losers
This was supposed to be the year USC’s Lane Kiffin figured it all out — then his team ran into Stanford again.
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Steve Spurrier’s Golden Years
The Ball Coach has never been more relaxed — and South Carolina may be better than ever.
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The Last Days of Paycheck Season
Arkansas and other college football teams are padding their schedules before the new playoff system starts — and paying dearly for it.