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It Had To Be The Shoes

September 28, 2017 by David Seigerman Leave a Comment

Anyone shocked by the college basketball breaking news (that is to say news that is breaking college basketball) clearly didn’t read College Sports Magazine’s Most Influential List back in June 1996.

The small but capable crew that was our editorial staff (think “Ocean’s Eleven,” then divide by about two — both in terms of headcount and cool) brainstormed and debated and, after a bucket or two of Rolling Rocks, debuted our ranking of the 50 most influential people in college sports during the 1995-96 school year.

Well, we identified deserving individuals for spots #2 thru #50. The top spot, indisputably, belonged not to a person but a logo.

GIMME FIVE

May 7, 2016 by David Seigerman 5 Comments

For the record, the Kentucky Derby isn’t the Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports as it is often reported to be.

Most Derbies aren’t over in two minutes or less. Virtually all of the first 141 times the race was run needed another second or two or three before we knew for sure who would be blanketed in roses and who would be tearing up tickets.

Congratulations, Peyton

February 7, 2016 by David Seigerman Leave a Comment

The celebration of Denver’s Super Bowl 50 win soon will give way to reflections of one of the great sports careers we have been privileged to enjoy.

Allow me to contribute to the tribute with this piece from College Sports Magazine, circa 1996. For all I know, this could have been one of the first national magazine pieces written about the young quarterback from Tennessee.

Peyton Manning CS Magazine

“Get in there, Keith!”

June 5, 2015 by David Seigerman 15 Comments

The drizzle was in no way dissuading.

After all, I’d waited long enough to play my first round of golf of the year. And since I had committed that two-hour window — between working in the afternoon and coaching a Little League playoff game in the evening — to playing nine holes, a little unexpected sprinkle wasn’t going to deter me from our 2:30 tee time.

2015 NFL DRAFT: The Last Mock

April 30, 2015 by David Seigerman Leave a Comment

As far as first impressions go, mine held up pretty well.

The 2014 college football season was just getting underway when I released my first ranking of the top 50 prospects expected to be available in the 2015 NFL Draft.

Now, in the final hours before that draft, I have to say, the list has not changed appreciably. Most of the names you’ll hear called from the podium in Chicago tonight are the same names you’ll find on that original list. Many of them in pretty much the same place as predicted (Jameis Winston No. 1, Leonard Williams top 3, Marcus Mariota, Brandon Scherff and Vic Beasley top 10).

Tanks For Nothing

December 16, 2014 by David Seigerman Leave a Comment

Already it was the season that wouldn’t die. Leave it to the Jets to make the unwatchable interminable.

Only the Jets could take the final second of play in a meaningless game late in a lost season and turn it into 17 breathless seconds of slow-motion train wreck.

The Jets were up by five when the Titans took the game’s final snap on their own 42-yard line. A short completion to Dexter McCluster, an immediate shovel pass back to Nate Washington, his backwards run and across-the-field throwback to Charlie Whitehurst later and Tennessee was in business. Whitehurst crossed midfield and in full stride lateraled to Delanie Walker, who appeared to have a clear path to the end zone.

The Inaugural Hauk Award

December 12, 2014 by David Seigerman 4 Comments

Noted baseball spiritualist and teacher of beginning composition at Alamance Junior College Annie Savoy said it best.

“The world is made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness.”

And so, as we round third on the 2014 calendar and head for home, we must acknowledge that the world indeed is made for Jets quarterback Geno Smith.

Earlier this week, Smith claimed that he has seen in his performance “flashes of being a Pro Bowl-caliber quarterback,” an assessment reported by Newsday that promptly elicited the largest collective spit-take in recorded history. Smith’s statement was more than the single-funniest line uttered during the Rex Ryan Era. It was downright prize-worthy.

A Playoff Field of Dreams

December 7, 2014 by David Seigerman 3 Comments

“Who’s in?”

For four months, that’s all we’ve heard from the College Football Playofffs. But the selection of the four-team field for the first college football championship tournament never was about that.

The question should have been, Who’s out?

Because four seats at the table was never going to be enough in a world where the number of so-called power conferences is five. Eight was always going to be the right number, and this first step in the right direction wasn’t quite big enough.

The Big Question

November 9, 2014 by David Seigerman 3 Comments

Today, we had The Talk.

Not the talk, though I suspect that one’s coming soon enough with my fifth-grade daughter.

No, the other talk. The one that has elbowed its way to the top of the menu of hot-button conversational topics, at least for parents of third-grade boys. At least around here.

I knew it was coming. Still, I was blindsided when it did.

My Jeter Moment

September 27, 2014 by AuthorBytes NetOps 1 Comment

It took 20 years, but I finally have my Derek Jeter moment.

For me, the legacy of the Yankees captain will not be the walkoff home run he hit off Byung-Hyun Kim in Game 4 of the 2001 World Series, though I was in the building when the clock struck midnight and Jeter was crowned Mr. November for all time.

It certainly won’t be the relay throw that cut down Timo Perez to end the sixth inning of the first game of the Subway Series in 2000 (in fact, that may be my least favorite Jeter moment, as it can be argued the Mets never recovered from that missed opportunity).