Posts by Michael Weinreb

  • Speed Kills: The Oregon Offense Starts Its Engine

    Last Saturday night, I lay half-asleep in a hotel room and watched Oregon play the Arkansas State Red Wolves in a football game that felt more like a hypnagogic fantasia. The Ducks were dressed up, as always, in Nike’s Alternate Elfin no. 6 color scheme, and they moved as if they were literally being chased […]

  • Joe Moglia

    The Billion-Dollar Coach

    Former Fortune 500 CEO Joe Moglia has never led a major football program — so why is Coastal Carolina finally giving him a chance?

  • Bream

    Cursed: Yinz and Losses in Pittsburgh

    Is this the end of 20 years of ignominy for the Pirates?

  • Mr. Marlowe, I Presume: The Californication of Olympics Announcing

    I spent the majority of the 1980s in a dank basement in central Pennsylvania, waiting out the winter by watching any and every late-night sporting event accessible on cable television. This means I grew up listening to a hell of a lot of Chris Marlowe. For great stretches of my life, I have forgotten Marlowe’s […]

  • Crime, Punishment, and Penn State

    I. A friend of mine, a fellow Penn State alumnus, texted me on Monday morning with two seemingly paradoxical thoughts: He believed the NCAA to be — and I will quote him directly here, because I sort of agree with him — “monumentally full of shit”; he also believed, given the circumstances, that the penalties […]

  • Nick Saban

    The Greatest Conference Ever, They Swear

    Touring the halls during the SEC’s self-congratulatory college football media congregation.

  • Joe Paterno Statue

    A Failed Experiment

    The scandal at State College infects an entire system in the aftermath of the Freeh Report.

  • Lane Kiffin

    The Trojan Prince

    Examining USC’s history of unorthodox head coaches and the maturation of Lane Kiffin.

  • Remembering LeRoy Neiman, Who Saw the Beauty of Sports

    The first time I saw a LeRoy Neiman painting was in a television commercial. Of this, I am sure, even if I cannot remember the portrait being advertised or how much it was being sold for or even why it was being hawked on cable at that particular moment. It may have been a rendering […]

  • The Big Ten Isn’t Going to Stand in the Way of Progress (Unless It Can)

    On Monday, the Big Ten powers that be held a conference call to outline their thoughts on a college football playoff system. Their preference, they declared up front, is to do nothing. “I think if the Big Ten presidents were to vote today, we would vote for the status quo,” Nebraska chancellor Harvey Perlman said, […]

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