Twistity Sports Exclusive: WINSTON IS SMOKIN’
Jameis Winston knows how to entertain a crowd. Whether it is on the football field (or the baseball field) for Florida State or repping his school at the ACC Media Days, Winston draws attention....
View ArticleTwistity Sports Exclusive: THE PACKERS’ PACKAGE
No NFL team does training camp the way the Green Bay Packers do. Players report today and practice begins on Saturday in the NFL’s version of Tiny Town. Fans pour down Lombardi Avenue and...
View ArticleTwistity Sports Exclusive: STERLING STEWING
What’s one more defeat for Donald Sterling? As owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, he watched his team absorb many as the NBA’s answer to the Washington Generals (the Harlem Globetrotters’ long-time...
View ArticleTwistity Sports Exclusive: RICE’S STICKY SITUATION
On Monday afternoon, when the Baltimore Ravens hit the practice field, fans gave a special cheer for running back Ray Rice. Rice acknowledged them by pointing back. We emphasize that they cheered the...
View ArticleTwistity Sports Exclusive: INDIANS DO HOME REPAIRS
The Cleveland Indians used to win, and they used to fill their ballpark. Then they and the economy got worse at about the same time. The economy has since done better. The Indians? Uh,...
View ArticleTwistity Sports Exclusive: POWER TO THE POWER CONFERENCES
Rather than risk a breakup, the NCAA agreed to a post-nup. And so a tenuous marriage continues. The NCAA Board of Directors voted 16-2 on Thursday to give the so-called Power Five conferences –...
View ArticleTwistity Sports Exclusive WEEKEND IN REVIEW: ‘NOLES NO. 1, MORE …
The Florida State Seminoles won the national college football championship last season and the Associated Press poll released over the weekend indicates they could well repeat. The ‘Noles received 57...
View ArticleTwistity Sports Exclusive: THE MASTER BUILDER
Howard Schnellenberger built programs and won titles. More than just a coach, he was an engineer of success. He reconstituted the University of Miami’s football program and won a national title. He...
View ArticleTwistity Sports Exclusive: THE PRICE IS WRONG
Homecoming always has a bittersweet tinge to it. All the memories, the struggles, the achievements, the disappointments cause a rush of emotions. David Price got all of that and more on Thursday...
View ArticleTwistity Sports Exclusive: CARDINAL SINS, MIAMI VICE
One is rebuilding (endlessly). The other simply reloaded. That’s the takeaway from Monday night’s 31-13 victory by Louisville at home against the University of Miami to wrap up the first weekend of...
View ArticleTwistity Sports Exclusive: THE OLD COLLEGE TRY
One piece of common wisdom in college football is this: Teams make their greatest strides between the first week and the second week of the season. This may be true, but it often seems...
View ArticleTwistity Sports Exclusive: RICE REDUX
And how, exactly, did we all figure Janay Rice had become unconscious in that elevator? Now that we’ve seen what Ray Rice did, we are all appropriately horrified. Perhaps not because he did it...
View ArticleTwistity Sports Exclusive: CREDIBLE, OR INCREDIBLE?
What did he know, and when did he know it? That question haunted America during Watergate. What did President Richard M. Nixon know about the bungled break-in at Democratic headquarters, and when did...
View ArticleTwistity Eye on Football: NFL PREVIEW
The NFL’s Thursday night matchup lacks a little oomph. Consider this one casual viewing rather than appointment TV. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-2) venture to Atlanta to meet the Falcons (1-1) in an...
View ArticleTwistity Sports Exclusive: NBA TIPOFF
The NBA’s incredibly long regular season begins Tuesday night. The 82-game sojourn to playoffs that are the equal of the Hundred Years’ War brings some interesting twists and perhaps the end of the...
View ArticleTwistity Sports Exclusive: GIANT WIN
A World Series marked by blowouts came down to a closely-played and dramatic Game 7 on Wednesday night. The San Francisco Giants edged the Kansas City Royals 3-2 to take the decisive game and...
View ArticleTwistity Sports Exclusive: COLLEGE FOOTBALL PREVIEW
The college football weekend got off to a fascinating start on Thursday night. Florida State, the defending national champion and the No. 2 team in the first College Football Playoff rankings,...
View ArticleTwistity Sports Exclusive: COLLEGE FOOTBALL PREVIEW
What else could this weekend of college football be called but Separation Saturday? As Week 11 hits, top teams in heavy-duty conferences get together to both bolster their own opportunities to...
View ArticleTwistity Sports Exclusive: COLLEGE FOOTBALL PREVIEW
Mississippi State sits atop the College Football Playoff rankings. Alabama is fifth. MSU is 9-0, Alabama 8-1. Yet it is the Crimson Tide that is favored by a touchdown when these two Southeastern...
View ArticleTwistity Sports Exclusive: IT AIN’T THE HEAT
The NBA is packed with terrible teams. The winless Philadelphia 76ers, the Detroit Pistons, the Boston Celtics, the Los Angeles Lakers, all are painful to watch, and the 76ers seem on their way to...
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