NFL Week One: Heroes, Villains and a shocking fall for an NFL legend. 1. All of the hype. So much hope. And the season lasted four plays for NY Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who will miss the remainder of the season with a complete tear of his achilles tendon. I...
BERNIE BITS The World Cup final between international football powers Argentina and France was spectacular and unforgettable and the perfect way to spend a Sunday morning. I don’t know if any one-off sporting event can ever top it. I know that qualifies as the kind of...
BERNIE BITS 1) Our Town’s Jayson Tatum is playing the best basketball in the NBA these days. With Tatum averaging 32.6 points, his Boston Celtics have won 11 of their last 13 games. But let’s go back two months. With Tatum averaging 30 points, the Celtics are 22-4...
It’s almost comical, to watch baseball grumble along in a damaging labor dispute, ruining its offseason marketing and promotion opportunities, making its own sport disappear from the national stage, and draining passion from the public with all of the arguments...
I’m looking forward to the four games that will set the field for the AFC and NFC conference championship matchups next weekend. Here’s my analysis of each contest, and I’ll include my pick at the end for entertainment purposes only – comedy, as you laugh at my...
This weekend eight NFL teams will compete in the conference semifinals in the march to the Super Bowl. Last week’s wild-card round wasn’t very interesting, with only two of the six games providing any suspense in the form of close-call finishes. Cincinnati defeated...
Patrick Mahomes vs. Tom Brady … If I may borrow a popular meme on Twitter: It’s The Baby G.O.A.T., age 25, taking on The Senior G.O.A.T, age 43. Brady is, without a doubt, the greatest quarterback in NFL history. His monstrous collection of conference championships...
Well, well, well. As it turns out, Tom Brady wasn’t manufactured in a secret lab by Bill Belichick. He wasn’t a system quarterback, plugged in by an evil coaching genius to play precisely as programmed. All of Brady’s victories and championships in New England can’t...
BERNIE BITS I hope you are staying safe and enjoying this holiday season, even if it’s tough for so many people right now. OK, let’s start with this: a Christmas present that hasn’t arrived … if it will ever arrive, which certainly is in...
