There were times at the University of North Carolina that Harrison Barnes would step up and look like he might be an NBA star. The tail end of his freshman campaign was littered with exciting play and exemplary ability that had us wanting more from the man referred to as the Black Falcon. Barnes didn’t...

Everyone is up in arms about Andrew Wiggins holding back on his decision on where he will play college basketball next season. The kid is really taking his time, and plenty of people are getting very frustrated about where the high school phenom will land. He has it narrowed down to about four schools,...

As we watched the NBA playoffs unfold over the weekend, a few of my questions were finally answered about the mind-set of the NBA general manager. I kept asking myself why teams were so hell-bent on bringing in old veteran players right before the playoffs started. After watching the first playoff weekend,...

Conference realignment seems to be set up to attract football fans. There have been several conferences that have benefited from the movements and others that have you scratching your head on why they chose to go where they went. For many fans, it seemed like a good idea to allow Pittsburgh, Syracuse,...

A few years ago it appeared that Tiger Woods would never be good again. In fact, many of us wondered if we may ever see greatness from the best golfer of our generation again. There was a period when everyone who could found something wrong with Tiger Woods. Everyone wanted him to be a better man. People...

In today’s society there are the haves and the have-nots. We see colleges repositioning themselves to make superconferences that will be able to compete at a high level and that will draw more and more money into match-ups that could possibly happen on a yearly basis. The Big 12 has accepted schools...

Some years of your life just stick out. In the past few months I have been doing a lot of reflection. It’s no secret that I am the oldest of The Sports Fan Journal writers, but I relish the fact that I have lived and witnessed so much history. Just recently I was remembering some of the best years...

Coming into Super Bowl 47, all that anyone could talk about was the battle of the brothers and the fact that it will be the last game that Ray Lewis will ever play. Controversy has surrounded the central characters all week. The game was built on the Harbaugh brothers and a sibling rivalry. The game...

Throughout the years, I have seen lots and lots of talent come and go from college football to the NFL. The Senior Bowl used to be the benchmark of what the draft was going to look like since most players stayed in school for four years unless they were the absolute best at their positions and needed...

There is one question that everyone who follows the bowls should be asking. If there is only one bowl that matters, why do we have 200,00 of them in the first place? Some of the bowls are set up for those of us who just want to check out the women. There are also bowls that try to help us prove that...

Sometimes in life people get left out of something big because they aimed for the stars and missed. Georgia was the undisputed champion of its division in the SEC, but because the Bulldogs were granted the opportunity to play in the SEC Championship game and lost, they lost out on an opportunity to...

Why is it that everyone loves to watch a David vs. Goliath match-up? Is it because we love to see the big guy fall, or is it because we want to see Goliath finally destroy David’s will to compete? The Discover Orange Bowl The 2013 Discover Orange Bowl will be the feature David vs. Goliath game of...