Professional sports promote parity in their annual drafts by rewarding early picks to bad teams and late picks to good teams. In MLB and the NHL, it can take a while for those early draft picks to start making a major impact on the team, while in the NFL those impacts can often be felt … Continue reading
Follow @Ryan_Kantor Clemson’s Spring Game is on April 11th. What are we looking for in Spring Practice leading up to the showcase? We discuss on MarkRogersTV. 0:28 – Offensive Line Issues: Jay Guillermo is not in Clemson at the moment and there are “no expectations” regarding his return. That means there is a hot competition … Continue reading
Follow @Ryan_Kantor Mark Rogers of MarkRogersTV and I discussed the Clemson players taken in this year’s NFL draft. Did the Bills give too much and will they end their playoff drought? What does the Brandon Thomas pick in the third round mean for Clemson? Did Martavis Bryant err by leaving early? Who has a great landing … Continue reading
Follow @Ryan_Kantor March 10th, 2014 Tajh Boyd, Clemson’s record setting quarterback, was selected with the 37th pick of the sixth round in the 2014 NFL draft by the New York Jets. Now that he’s officially off to the NFL, we look back on his legacy at Clemson and the immense impact he has had on the program. … Continue reading
Follow @Ryan_Kantor If you’ve read my blog before, you may have seen my post entitled: Why Tim Tebow Haters Probably Kick Small Bunnies Too. I’m no Florida Gators or Jacksonville Jaguars fan, but I’m just at a loss to see why this obvious move–Tim Tebow to Jacksonville–hasn’t happened yet. After Tebow’s tenure in Denver came … Continue reading
Arthur Blank, the venerable owner of the Atlanta Falcons, has thoroughly expressed his desire for a new retractable roof stadium as a new home for his franchise. The Georgia Dome, bland as can be, is 20-years-old. In negotiating with the city for a new stadium, he found leverage anywhere he could, including threatening to move the Falcons … Continue reading
After releasing my “Decade Ahead” rankings for the ACC, a friend reconnected with me and asked if he could do the same for the . He took a decidedly shorter-term view, looking only to next season, rather than the long 5-10 year window I attempted to write towards. Don’t worry, he promises the decade outlook is on … Continue reading
This Sunday was a disaster for Yahoo! Sports, as their entire fantasy football website crashed. Managers were unable to get on to check their teams, or adjust their rosters. Surely, thousands of procrastinating fantasy managers left bye-week players in their lineups. They have since improved their servers. According to their Twitter account: We’ve improved the … Continue reading
The wheels are in motion for Peyton Manning to finalize a deal to the Denver Broncos, which means Tim Tebow is out as the star starting quarterback for the team. It seemed probable that Peyton Manning would sign with Tennessee, bringing him back to the state of his alma mater, but it was not to … Continue reading
Great post about Kevin Gregg and David Ortiz. Ortiz is such a hypocritical punk. And Gregg might now be my favorite non-Yankee reliever (the fact that he’s on my fantasy team also makes it easier to root for him). Anyway, continuing in the sports realm, how interesting is it that there exists the possibility of … Continue reading
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