Mayfield Memorandum 1: Ready to Go in 2021

Note: Turning the Cleveland Browns’ Season of Promise into one of super success depends on their quarterback, Baker Mayfield. It is always about the quarterback in the modern, pass-happy National Football League. There may be variants, including coaching, or, as the...
What to Remember as a Senior? Your Teammates

What to Remember as a Senior? Your Teammates

Photo courtesy of Melissa Buck Gillman Dempsey Gillman (front row, middle): pride of his grandpa’s life Depending on one’s perspective, Dempsey Gillman and his Tulsa Metro Christian Academy teammates would seem to have a high hill to climb—Oklahoma’s idea of a...
Not Everyone Must Play by the NCAA’s Rules—Thankfully

Not Everyone Must Play by the NCAA’s Rules—Thankfully

uakron.edu As if the University of Akron football program had not already had its nose ground into the dirt—OK, make that, artificial turf—a former athletic department administrator has caused the NCAA to put its foot squarely on the Zips’ neck and jump up and down...

Will Browns Starters be Prepared to Start the Season?

Even during the most revealing of training camps and preseasons, it can be difficult to impossible to determine what caliber of team will come out of the starting gate when the bell rings and it hits the longer-than-ever National Football League regular-season track....

Clem McSpadden: A No-Bull Guy and His Golden Voice

When they auction off the flotsam and jetsam of a life, especially an important one, the memories that come with the items can prove not only personal but also existential. If I were not at a stage of life when I should be discarding rather than collecting, I might...