Mayfield Memorandum 9: Friends and Foes

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...

Mayfield Memorandum 8: Defaming/Reclaiming

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...
Act or Your Cremains Could End Up in a Car Trunk

Act or Your Cremains Could End Up in a Car Trunk

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...

Mayfield Memorandum 7: Wild Thing Indeed

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...
UA Football No Stranger to Ambition, Realignment

UA Football No Stranger to Ambition, Realignment

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...