Idea

Vulnerable
At some point in the next few days, you will see the replay of last week’s fight between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto. You will be told to and just might fall in love with the acumen of the newly crowned welterweight champ; how his dominance has upped the stakes and demand for a megafight between him and Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2010. You will also be told that Cotto hasn’t been the same

Confronting
You would have gone in the stands, too. You may not have liked what happened five years ago in Auburn Hills, Michigan, but if a beer cup was hurled in your direction, you would have gone in the stands, too. You wouldn’t have sat there and accepted that someone hurled an object in your direction with bad intentions. You wouldn’t have been okay with someone putting themselves above the game,

Imperfect
There’s something about second-guessing that is too easy. Sure, an entire industry – sports media – is founded on looking back and questioning the unsuccessful plays of the last game, but there are times where it’s just… just far too easy. It’ll be known as The Call and if the New England Patriots somehow find themselves short of at least the third seed in the upcoming playoffs, every person who

Ethnic
The bad weather in the northeast should be more of a reason to walk, run, swim, drive, fly or teleport yourself to someone’s place to see tomorrow night’s superfight between Miguel Cotto and Manny Pacquiao. That is, if you aren’t ordering it yourself like this Scribe. To provide analysis is a fruitless exercise; although Pac-Man is going to win a very tough fight, tougher than what trainer

Carded
In recent seasons of college football, officials have been suspended for major screw-ups that apparently impacted the fortunes of teams going into both conference championships and bowl season. Two of the most publicized suspensions occurred within the Football Bowl Subdivision. Back in 2006, Pac-10 officials were benched for errors in the final 1:12 of the Oklahoma-Oregon tilt that put an