Clayton Kershaw is the best pitcher you’ve ever seen. You might not agree because social media has you brainwashed into believing his small sample size playoff performance is all that matters, but it’s true. The Dodgers ace is better than Randy Johnson, better than Greg Maddux, and even better than Pedro Martinez. How do I…
Kirk Ferentz Becomes Iowa’s All-Time Winningest Football Coach: My 10 Favorite Victories
When I was a senior in high school in 1999, I remember being so excited that Bobby Stoops was about to become Hayden Fry’s replacement as the head coach of THE University of Iowa football program. It seemed inevitable. Stoops was a former Hawkeye defensive back and assistant coach. He once said while he was…
Iowa Football Grades for NIU Game: Will Nate Stanley Ever Show Consistency?
FINAL SCORE: Iowa 33 Northern Illinois 7 After an atrocious half of football offensively against Northern Illinois to kick off the 2018 season, Iowa’s running game found its groove in the second half behind the three-headed monster of Toren Young, Ivory Kelly-Martin, and Mekhi Sargent, thanks in part to an offensive line that wore down…
Jon’s Big Ten Conference Football Predictions
Urban Meyer’s status at Ohio State is still up in the air as I write this preview. I’m just kidding. Everyone knows there’s no way way he’s fired. Let’s be honest here. Urb wins too many games for an elite program to fire a coach that wins 11-12 games every year and has won a…
Iowa Hawkeyes Football 2018 Preview: Potential is there but….
Last year was mostly a disappointment for the Iowa Hawkeyes football team, but it was nice to end that seven-year bowl winless streak even though the bowl win came in the frigid cold Pinstripe Bowl no one cares about against a mediocre Boston College team that did everything in its power to hand a seemingly…
What Can the Poker Community Do to Attract More Women to the Game?
Take a look around at your local poker room during a busy evening. I bet you only find a handful of women in the crowd. That’s par for the course in most card rooms and at the WSOP these days, and it’s troublesome to the future growth of the game. In the recently completed WSOP…
I Think It’s Time to Stop Hating on Chris Ferguson
Chris Ferguson is one of the most despised players in poker and, although I understand the frustration many had with the former WSOP Main Event champion following the 2011 Black Friday scandal at Full Tilt Poker, it’s been more than seven years, and it’s time for everyone to let it go. Many within the poker…
Phil Hellmuth’s Stubbornness is Baffling
Phil Hellmuth is one of the best poker players ever, arguably the greatest tournament specialist in history. No one can ever take that away from him even if he never wins another WSOP bracelet. But, at this point in his career, he’s simply not that great of a player. He’s become poker’s version of post-2008…
Is there Any Doubt Justin Bonomo is the Best NLH Player in the World?
Justin Bonomo is the best no-limit hold’em player in the world. It’s gotten to a point where I’m not sure if that statement is a matter of opinion anymore, or if its an indisputable fact. So far this year, ZeeJustin has won the Super High Roller Bowl in Las Vegas, Super High Roller Bowl China…
Is Chris Ferguson Taking More Heat than Deserved from the Poker Community?
For some strange reason that isn’t based on logic, I want to one day see the poker community and Chris Ferguson kiss and make up. But I realize the odds of that happening are about as likely as me winning the Main Event this year, and I won’t even be competing in the tournament. Ferguson,…
