Sports At Politics

After a runaway victory by the AFC team in pouring rain at the NFL Pro Bowl in Orlando, Florida earlier today (the AFC defeated the NFC by a score of 26 to 7), Jason Witten, the color commentator for the English-language telecast of the Pro Bowl that aired on ABC and ESPN and was produced by ESPN, broke the #1 rule of trophy presentations, which is to not break the trophy, by breaking the trophy: Jason Witten broke the damn Pro Bowl trophy: https://t.co/Rxvi41usqy pic.twitter.com/RKL3SXqi17 — Deadspin (@Deadspin) January 27, 2019 That's an embarrassing way to cap off one of the least interesting Pro Bowl games in a long time.

Jim Harbaugh, the head football coach at the University of Michigan, stated during the Big Ten Conference (B1G) media day before the start of this year's college football season (which begins August 25, although the first games featuring B1G teams is August 30) that he would like the College Football Playoff (CFP) that determines the unofficial national champion in NCAA Division I FBS college football expanded to eight teams, with an expansion to sixteen teams being a long-term goal, as well as eliminating conference championship games: Jim Harbaugh on @CFBPlayoff expansion: "Let's go to 8 and eventually 16." Says to eliminate the conference championship game to get there and keep number of games reasonable. pic.twitter.com/KVsezXrura — Hawkeye Headquarters (@HawkeyeHQ) July 23, 2018 In short, Harbaugh's proposal to reform the College Football Playoff is half-great and half-terrible. I strongly support the idea of expanding the College Football Playoff to ...

The backlash that the National Football League (NFL) has received (examples here and here ) for adopting a "stand-or-stay" rule in regards to performances of the U.S. national anthem before NFL games might be just the beginning of the NFL's problems in the upcoming NFL season. Several NFL players, whose names have not been revealed, have reportedly told Shaun King of the New York Daily News that they are considering sitting out the season unless NFL team(s) sign Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid, two NFL players who are not currently under a contract with any team due to the NFL team owners effectively blacklisting them from the league for protesting against racism in America. Furthermore, King has claimed that the goal of the unnamed players is to get as much as one-quarter of the league's players to sit out with them. BREAKING: Several star @NFL players have told me they are considering sitting out the season until the de facto ban of Eric Reid and Colin Kaepern...

Danny White, the athletic director for the University of Central Florida (UCF), claimed a national championship in NCAA Division I FBS gridiron football after the undefeated UCF Knights defeated the Auburn University Tigers by a score of 34 to 27 in a thrilling Peach Bowl contest. I'm going to consider UCF to be unofficial national co-champions with the winner of the College Football Playoff (CFP) final , which is scheduled for January 8 and will feature the University of Alabama Crimson Tide and the University of Georgia Bulldogs, as the winner of the Bama vs. Georgia CFP final will invariably have one loss on their record for the season (both Bama and Georgia lost regular season games to Auburn). Remember, the NCAA does not officially award a national championship in Division I FBS football . Instead, the College Football Playoff (CFP) was created in an attempt to avoid controversies over who would be generally recognized as national champion, which plagued the former Bowl C...