by Steve Love | Oct 14, 2021 | Blog
The idiom goes like this: Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd. In some circumstances—a ménage à trois, for instance—three is the perfect number. Other times, even two can be a crowd. It could have been the latter in the 2016 University of Oklahoma quarterback room that...
by Steve Love | Oct 12, 2021 | Blog
In his previous game against the Minnesota Vikings, Cleveland quarterback Baker Mayfield could do little right—and the Browns won. The contrite blame-placing Mayfield called a sow’s-ear performance a sow’s ear, only he used the term “piss poor.” Sows everywhere...
by Steve Love | Oct 7, 2021 | Blog
Hiram College photo Bonney Castle, Hiram College’s English home, is perfect for Kirsten Parkinson’s cremains It can be difficult to write an essay that has universal appeal. Trying to do so can cause a cerebral hemorrhaging. Or, at least a bad...
by Steve Love | Oct 4, 2021 | Blog
If the Cleveland Browns wish to turn back their offense a century—and it looks as if they do—the quarterback they need is deader than Baker Mayfield’s arm looked against the Minnesota Vikings. Fritz Pollard, who quarterbacked the Akron Pros to the first National...
by Steve Love | Sep 30, 2021 | Blog
Author’s photo Though the situations differ drastically, it can be instructive—if terrifying—to recall the first college football program to attempt to climb the rungs from one NCAA division to another, from one conference to another, with a sojourn as an...