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Most of the posts above covered everything but I too want to get back to Spieth. In an eerie approximation of what DJ did at the US Open it looked wide open for Jordan going into the final round but similar to DJ, Spieth couldn't make the short putts that are required to win and just couldn't...

Scott Frost is eyeing dual threat QB Logan Smothers out of Athens Alabama. A speedster could we be talking about the next Eric Crouch if he signs with Nebraska? See below...

Below is an article and two charts (men and women) that display the average age of the top players over the years. It is startling how the players winning now are much older. The writer comes up with his reasons why and I buy some of it but not all of it. For sure on the men's side we are...

I miss all the tension and the excitement but you are dead on-- the overall play as you describe it was historically atrocious capped off by a start and sputter ending with France greasing out another awkward victory. Free flowing "football" was hard to come buy. I would describe the general...

In regards to fitness the past couple of weeks there was plenty of real fitness on display at the World Cup and Wimbledon. Both tennis and soccer require the kind of stamina that is top of the line. Basketball players exhibit it too but baseball players apart from catchers and pitchers do a lot...

Endsieg has not put away his cleats despite the rumors. Ha. Good to hear. As anticipated the media especially ESPN is trying to funnel everything around Mbappe. It will get sickening but that is the cost of following sports. Speaking of which there were two people notably absent from this...

After watching the Djokovic win he almost fell through the trap door that Federer fell in. Up an easy two sets he had to fight off set points to eventually win the third set but who knows what would have happened if Anderson had pulled that set out. Federer was up an easy two sets to zero but...

Endsieg thanks but farewell? The Premier league starts in less than a month and I look forward to your commentary. Tough to take since France started off with not one but two cheap ass goals. Croatia showed a lot of grit but had too many goals to make up. They did outplay France but once again...

I saw half the match in the morning and re watched the whole thing on ESPN News last night. The men's final replay is scheduled for tonight too. Kerber joins Wozniacki and Halep as this year's GS winners and they all have one thing in common. All three are tremendously fit athletes who can...

Since I brought him up can't resist giving a taste of a precocious Michael Owen displaying skills far beyond this current English squad. Owen emerged in the 1990's at a time when USA Sports and USA media were engaged in full throttle caste mode. See below Owen at just 18 years old. Are young...

Reading the post mortem reports coming out of soccer crazed England you would have thought this team was a dynamic gate crashing team on the verge of a giant break through. They left out the part they had the easiest draw known to mankind. You can't even compare the likes of say Raheem Sterling...

Yes Andy Roddick was the last white American male winning the US Open in 2003 which turned out to be his only major. Federer prevented Roddick from winning another US Open and several Wimbledon titles. Sampras won the US Open in 2002. In 2001 a young Federer defeated Sampras at Wimbledon to...

The nightmare that won't go away reaches another final. She will face off against Kerber. Kerber took the mean pig down in the 2016 Aussie final but Serena avenged that loss by beating Kerber at Wimbledon the same year. Kerber has physical gifts and is athletic but she is not a true offensive...

I will chalk up your "I don't care" who wins the final...comment as something said in the heat of the moment. Great Croatia victory but there is no way in hell I wouldn't care if France wins the final. My guess is you feel the same way. I want France to go down in flames. Now back to England...

I will finish your sentence "end of" -----the good life, enjoying sports, happiness and getting through a day without being royally PISSED OFF!!! France is a cancer as far as I am concerned and it will spread and kill off the host--meaning me and other like minded individuals. I admit the new...

In all sports we have noticed for years the freeze effect on white athletes that occurs after black athletes enter the scene. I think the Williams effect psyched out a whole generation of potential white tennis stars. We know the drill. They are told over and over again that the black players...

I missed both of Friday's matches but managed to watch a lot of the Brazil-Belgium on repeat in the middle of the night after a semi sleepless night. I am more than relieved Brazil is out of the tournament. I have never ever rooted for Brazil in the World Cup or any other event. And there no way...

For sure Halep losing just destroys any notion that a sea change was going to happen on the women's side. Not too long ago if players finally broke through and won their first major they would relax and start to win some more. But both Wozniacki and Halep have assumed the fetal position. Given...

Along with Stephens there has been a rash of upsets on the women's side so far. Top ten players Wozniacki, Svitolina (highly athletic player-- huge disappointment last two majors), Garcia, Murguruza and Kvitova have all gone down in flames. And sadly Maria Sharapova was bounced in the first...

Nothing like a slice of existential dread to kick off the day. Ha. JL taps into the growing white anxiety surrounding the nature of sports in today's world. And the abiding question not just for us folks here at caste but for many people across the globe is the white athlete headed towards near...

Interestingly in that article the black writer inserts the word black power without flinching. The league is well on it's path to becoming a black plaything the very thing I have discussed this past season. Star black players who essentially multi task as political figures, management and...

Regarding the two posts above and modern day baseball injuries. I think physical activity and lifestyle probably plays a role but I am not sure how much? The players back in the day came by their strength naturally from either farm work or manual labor and they seemed more flexible. Watching...

Maybe my paranoia is getting the better of me but the turmoil between the players union and management in the NFL is very high. Yet in the NBA everything seems tranquil and harmonious. "Popular" Commissioner, the smugly arrogant Adam Silver just got his contract extended. Why are NBA players so...

I am missing the first match but should be able to take in the England match. Philosopher and I are on the same wavelength when it comes to who to root for and I agree with his "European" pecking order with France being the worst of the lot which I believe is a consensus here. And good point...

I thought Lukaku was worse than poor. He was clumsy and dreadful. No flexibility. He is nothing without his teammates setting him up. An overrated player. A straight line speed player with little agility.