Courtside Post

by Nick Bruner

For a baseball purist like myself, it will be odd and slightly disturbing to see the lights of New Yankee Stadium shining in late December. No, Bud Selig hasn’t pushed the World Series back even farther. Rather, the joy that is the college football bowl season is heading to New Yankee Stadium for the first annual Pinstripe Bowl. In what falls just short of a clash of the titans, the Big 12’s seventh place team and the Big East’s third or fourth place team will square off against each other in the first of four scheduled Pinstripe Bowls on December 30th.

by Nick Bruner

Ben Roethlisberger just recently hired a defense attorney for his pending sexual assault case. While DA’s names are usually insignificant, this can’t be said for the one that Roethlisberger just hired. Roethlisberger hired defense attorney Edward T.M. Garland, the same DA that represented Ray Lewis in his murder trial in 2000. Clearly we are all familiar with Big Ben, so lets learn more about Edward T. M. Garland.

by Nick Bruner
This past weekend, the sport of hockey found itself in a position that it had not been in for a long time. It was in America’s living rooms throughout the nation again as viewers tuned in from all over the US to watch the gold medal game against Canada. But now that the [...]

by Nick Bruner

INTERNATIONAL Midway through the first week of Olympic coverage from Vancouver, the ratings are beginning to pour in and they are much improved from 2006. Ratings for the Vancouver Olympics are up over 15% from the winter games held in Turin. While the Olympic games weren’t able to top American Idol in the ratings last night, they were certainly competitive with them and they blew away other competitors such as Lost and college basketball. Even though the numbers are still coming up short of what they were during the Salt Lake City games in 2002, it has been a tremendous rebound for NBC, and the winter Olympics, from a disastrous showing in Turin. One of the reasons for the ratings is U.S Men’s Figure Skater Johnny Weir.

by CSP guest Contributor Nick Bruner

It is safe to say that the National Football League would be drastically different without revenue sharing. The idea of revenue sharing is a key part of the “any given Sunday” philosophy that the league prides itself on. With huge upsets such as the Cleveland Browns and Oakland Raiders defeating the defending Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers, sorry for the nasty flashbacks Steelers fans, we were reminded that anything can indeed happen in the NFL. Another great aspect about the “any given Sunday” theory is that it sometimes turns into an “any given season” situation. We have seen great stories the last two seasons in teams like the New Orleans Saints and Arizona Cardinals. Without revenue sharing in place, these rags to riches stories would surely be seldom seen.