Sports Authors Showcase: Ara's Knights: Ara Parseghian and the Golden Era of Notre Dame Football by Frank Pomarico
We are privileged to have Frank Pomarico this week who wrote a book with Ray Serafin titled Ara's Knights: Ara Parseghian and the Golden Era of Notre Dame Football. Frank was one of the captains of that great 1973 Notre Dame national…
Talking College Football History: Don Patterson
Don Patterson is my guest this week. Don was an Army graduate and part of one of the best coaching staffs in college football history. The 1983 Iowa Hawkeye coaching staff included: Head Coach Hayden Fry along with assistants Bill Snyder, Kirk Ferentz,…
Talking College Football History: Dirt Winston
We visit Razorback country this week with our guest Dennis "Dirt" Winston. He played at Arkansas from 1973-1976 under legendary coach Frank Broyles. The Razorbacks had a great season in 1975 culminating in a Cotton Bowl trip where they…
Talking College Football History: Jay Shapiro
We feature the great Wyoming football team of 1967 this week. This team went 10-0 in the regular season and earned a Sugar Bowl bid to face LSU. Jay Shapiro, the starting center on that great Wyoming team, is our guest. Jay was a multi-year…
Talking College Football History: Jim Heilig
Do you remember the 1975 season of Arizona State Sun Devil football? If not, you should; this was the undefeated team that finished #2 in the nation. We are privileged this week to have one of the captains of that team share his experiences on this…
Talking College Football History: Stan White
We take the time machine back to those great Ohio State Buckeye teams in the late 1960s to the early 1970s this week with linebacker Stan White. Stan was "all everything" coming out of Theodore Roosevelt High School in Kent, Ohio. He took his skills…
The NFL Product just isn’t good, but it doesn’t matter
NBC’s opening for Super Bowl LX was fantastic.I could save myself time and you the trouble of reading further by ending the column there, but what fun would that be?I do have a point that I will eventually make.The Super Bowl was a dud. Don’t get me…
Talking College Football History: Jim Swift
We talk Iowa football this week taking the time machine back to the Bob Commings and Hayden Fry days with our guest Jim Swift. Jim was a tight end with Iowa from 1976-1979. He was part of the ending of the Bob Commings era and the start of the…
