So, I am not going to defend or condemn any of the coaches. What I will say is this; about 12 years ago I coined a phrase following the 2004 season when everyone called for Bellotti and staff to be fired: Arkansas Syndrome.It is about 545 miles from Fayetteville, AR to Tuscaloosa, Alabama yet they might as well be a million miles apart. Arkansas has neither the tradition nor the identity to b

A brief glint of un-shimmering darkness. We stride through the light and darkness with a numbing lack of our own existence beyond that which we know.The vast majority - all of us - simply exist. In some ways, that is all we are ever asked to do, but is it all we should expect of ourselves. We are sentient beings and we simply refuse to see anything more than that which is easiest to see.Sometimes

As many of you know, recently I took a bit of a ‘respite from reality’ with a bit of solitude. I was completely off the grid for three days. I did not see so much as a single Facebook notification or receive a recruiting update. My telephone was incapable of ringing and no emails made it through ‘Airplane Mode’ during my brief escape.I feel compelled to divulge some honesty – this was a trip more...

Anyone who knows me also knows I love music - a lot. I often incorporate it into my writing in small ways. One song I really love is Strength to Go On by rise Against. the chorus, to me, is especially meaningful. And so it was with that thought in mind I began to think about the Brenda Tracy story.For those unaware, Brenda was gang raped by some athletes 18 years ago. After receiving death threats

It is not often that some guy writing for a fan-centric website gets the opportunity to write a piece that can have some sense of impact. It is difficult, at times, to write about certain topics because everyone seems to be jumping on the same story. Such was the case with the baylor football scandal that unraveled just last week when the university fired their coach, demoted their President and c...

A man’s character is his fate. HeraclitusSo too is the character of a program its fate. Few programs can muster the ability to say with a straight face that theirs is one of utmost perfection in character, but most strive for character. Much has been made over the last several seasons, even right here at Duck Sports Authority, regarding character. We have done several articles relating to the cha...

Those who know me can attest to a couple of truths. One, I am not a Kobe Bryan fan. In fact, I am not much of an NBA fan. Maybe that can be attributed to being let down by the Portland franchise during the so-called 'JailBlazer' era. Maybe there is something else which has caused me to lose my taste for a sport I was once so passionate about that no remote control was safe while I watched.I have n

Hardly a king and hardly idle a weekend comes and goes far too quickly for this aging man. I fear not what the weekend did not bring, rather rejoicing in that which was accomplished, not least of which was satisfaction, revelation and joy in moments that were brief in time and forever in memory.For it is memory which is all we take with us and that too will fade with the light from our eyes, but w

Here's the thing. I am a writer. Among other things of course. Still, I am a writer. As an independent author, that means I am also an editor, an agent, a copywriter, and a marketer. But I do not excel at those things.I can edit my work. I can have someone review the work and suggest some changes, then edit some more. That is part and parcel for being a writer. But when it comes to marketing; well

It has been quite some time since my last blog post. As with all, it seems sometimes that life gets in the way of constant communication.I made the semi-virulent effort at promotion for Grand Illusion, but its release came squarely on the heels of a planned trip to visit my son in Washington D.C. He and his girlfriend are headed to law school this fall somewhere other than a DC area school. Both h