Week 4: Stick to the Team 1. Georgia: THE TEAM over the past two seasons is unquestionably the Bulldogs. They avenged their only loss during that span in the 2021 title-game rematch victory over Alabama. But Georgia did encounter some unexpected turbulence in the Lexington, KY region over the weekend, with the Wildcats limiting the ‘Dogs…

Week 3: The Man with the Umbrella 1. Georgia: (circle) — Circle the date: 12/2/22 — the Bulldogs clinched a berth in December’s SEC Championship Game courtesy of Saturday’s 45–19 dismantling of their fellow canines of Mississippi State. QB Stetson Bennett continued his season-long streak of eclipsing the 200-yard passing mark, throwing for 289 and three scores…

Week 2: Hell 1. Georgia: Hell hath no fury like a defending champion scorned. After only winning the 2021 national championship and starting the ’22 campaign 8–0, compiling an average winning margin of more than 31 points, the CFP pundits had the audacity to rank the Bulldogs third in their inaugural poll. As…

Week 1: Red Light, Green Light 1. Georgia: (green light) — The 2022 season has been a series of uninterrupted green lights for the Bulldogs. Springboarding from its January national championship victory over Alabama, UGA opened the season with a 49–3 thrashing of an Oregon team that has yet to lose a second game. Most recently…

UCLA and USC cross the Continental Divide to join the Big Ten Conference — “And for what? For a little bit of money? There’s more to life than a little money, you know. Don’tcha know that?” — Frances McDormand: Fargo Obviously, Marge Gunderson’s message didn’t resonate in the Rosemont headquarters of the B1G league this summer. After a gentle tweak of geographic sanity with…

Rebels and Sooners clash for college baseball supremacy — Once all of the infield dust settled in Omaha, once all of the highest-seeded teams departed after a double-elimination, once all of the errant bleacher-seat beach balls were deflated by unamused stadium staff, the two teams remaining are two unseeded squads who entered the CWS with the greatest number of…

Four SEC West foes, both sides of the Red River Showdown, plus Notre Dame-Stanford converge on Nebraska — With more newly-minted champions such as Mississippi State, Vanderbilt and Oregon State unrepresented at this year’s College World Series, a new generation of title-bearer is destined to be crowned. In fact, the most recent Series winner among the 2022 field is Texas, led by the late, great Augie Garrido to…

…can’t believe the Frozen Four is nuthin’ but wihked posahs from out west — American International, UMass Lowell, Northeastern, Harvard and defending champion Massachusetts. Five of the 16 NCAA tournament teams would have given Boston’s TD Garden some local rooting interest in this year’s Frozen Four. All were knocked out in the first round of play. Instead, New England will host four schools from…

with blood the color of a Blue Hurricane — To say that the 2022 Final Four has been overrun by the blue bloods of college basketball would be to traffic in understatement; a quality unfamiliar to the very nature of New Orleans. The four participating schools have accounted for nine of the last 20 NCAA titles (Duke: 2001, 2010…