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Joe Paterno: Telling the Story of a Legacy
How do you really measure a person's legacy? Is it apportioned by how many buildings are named after him or her? Is it the dollar figures on a ledger? Is it the amount of wins on a sheet or the quotes in a book? Of course not. Our personal legacies won't just be remembered for how many ridiculously...
WWE Randy Orton DVD Review - The Redemption Of A Viper?
Earlier this month, WWE released what promises to be one of their biggest selling DVDs of the year, the first ever career retrospective DVD of WWE superstar Randy Orton, which they subtitled The Evolution Of A Predator. The DVD seemed to have the potential of being one of the most compelling in...
Last Word on BJ Penn: Tiers, Hall of Fame, and What Might Have Been
Our BJ Penn discussion this week had been interesting to say the least, but I still think we are talking past each other. I love BJ Penn. I was rooting hard for him against Edgar like I've cheered for him over the course of the decade. I believed in his ability to be one of the pantheon of greats....
More on BJ Penn: Looking Back at His Lightweight Legacy and Revisionist Lunacy
"I don’t want to be known as a great fighter. I want to be known as the best. The best fighter ever" Those are the words of a fighter that seemed focussed on legacy. When I talked to Penn before his second fight with Georges St. Pierre, his place in the sport's rich history was...
Does Frankie Edgar loss at UFC 118 change BJ Penn's legacy?
It's long been a given that BJ Penn is one of the greatest fighters of all time. We hear it from Mike Goldberg and Joe Rogan every time he fights in the Octagon and he's a multiple time world champion in two weight classes. But after losing two in a row, is it time to reevaluate where Penn stands...
Tribute to a Legend, Part 1: Favorite Aspects of the Phillip Fulmer Era
When a coach runs a program for 17 years in a "talent-poor" state that wins a national championship, wins 150 games total, has one of the best tenures in SEC history, and gets noted for building up the "USC of the '90s", he has produced one of the greatest coaching tenures in the roughly 120...
The Chow Factor Revisited
I will admit that this is bit of a rehash from a post that I wrote back in January but with something I read recently I felt compelled to look at it again. . . . In the first year of the Pete Carroll era USC went 6-and-6, finishing the season with an embarrassing loss to Utah in the Las Vegas...
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