Subject: Charlie Weis

• Football U: The Thugs Love Us!

  October 20, 2006

• Football U: The Thugs Love Us!

  October 20, 2006

• Here Come the Irish

  July 20, 2007

• College Football Review: Week Three

  September 17, 2007

• The College Football Preview, Week Five: No Wins for Notre Dame, No Arrests for Texas

  September 28, 2007

• The College Football Review, Week Five: Horns, Sooners and Coogs Lose. Gig ‘Em.

  October 1, 2007

• The College Football Preview, Week Eight: More Babes. And More Babes.

  October 19, 2007

• John Royal's Top Twenty Sports Moments of 2007, Part Two

  December 19, 2007

• College Bowl Season: Previews By A Real Expert

  The college football bowl season is here, and it's become such a confusing mess of odd-sounding games played in smallish towns with mediocre teams that you need an expert to figure it out. And nothing says "expert" more than a teen-aged kid, whether the subject is football, driving, or how inutterably lame Dad's musical tastes are. So here are the first of three sets of bowl-game capsules by noted college football expert Patrick Connelly, who somehow doesn't think Charlie Weis needs to be fired

  December 19, 2008

• College Bowl Game Preview: Picks by A Real Expert, Part Two

  The college football bowl season is here, and it's become such a confusing mess of odd-sounding games played in smallish towns with mediocre teams that you need an expert to figure it out. And nothing says "expert" more than a teen-aged kid, whether the subject is football, driving, or how inutterably lame Dad's musical tastes are. So here are the first of three sets of bowl-game capsules by noted college football expert Patrick Connelly, who somehow doesn't think Charlie Weis needs to be fired

  December 29, 2008

• College Bowl Preview: Picks By A Real Expert, The Finale

  The college football bowl season is here, and it's become such a confusing mess of odd-sounding games played in smallish towns with mediocre teams that you need an expert to figure it out. And nothing says "expert" more than a teen-aged kid, whether the subject is football, driving, or how inutterably lame Dad's musical tastes are. So here are the first of three sets of bowl-game capsules by noted college football expert Patrick Connelly, who somehow doesn't think Charlie Weis needs to be fired

  January 1, 2009

• UT's Mack Brown Visits The Troops, And Complains Endlessly

  Mack Brown, along with a handful of other NCAA coaches, is making a goodwill visit to the troops in Germany, Iraq and Kuwait. (He's following in the footsteps of a coach at an actual good football school, Notre Dame's Charlie Weis, who visited the Middle East earlier this year.)Brown's to be commended for going of course, even though he's obviously trying to draft off the heat of Weis. He's also writing a diary of events on his website and -- well, does the dude always complain this much? We

  June 3, 2009

• College Bowl Preview: Picks By A Real Expert, The Finale

  The college football bowl season is here, and it's become such a confusing mess of odd-sounding games played in smallish towns with mediocre teams that you need an expert to figure it out. And nothing says "expert" more than a teen-aged kid, whether the subject is football, driving, or how inutterably lame Dad's musical tastes are. So here are the first of three sets of bowl-game capsules by noted college football expert Patrick Connelly, who somehow doesn't think Charlie Weis needs to be fired

  January 1, 2009

• College Bowl Game Preview: Picks by A Real Expert, Part Two

  The college football bowl season is here, and it's become such a confusing mess of odd-sounding games played in smallish towns with mediocre teams that you need an expert to figure it out. And nothing says "expert" more than a teen-aged kid, whether the subject is football, driving, or how inutterably lame Dad's musical tastes are. So here are the first of three sets of bowl-game capsules by noted college football expert Patrick Connelly, who somehow doesn't think Charlie Weis needs to be fired

  December 29, 2008

• College Bowl Season: Previews By A Real Expert

  The college football bowl season is here, and it's become such a confusing mess of odd-sounding games played in smallish towns with mediocre teams that you need an expert to figure it out. And nothing says "expert" more than a teen-aged kid, whether the subject is football, driving, or how inutterably lame Dad's musical tastes are. So here are the first of three sets of bowl-game capsules by noted college football expert Patrick Connelly, who somehow doesn't think Charlie Weis needs to be fired

  December 19, 2008

• Bragging Rights

  The Port praises itself, with omissions

  August 17, 2006

• Mack Brown vs. Iraq & John Lomax vs. a Metro bus

  June 11, 2009

• Five Reasons Notre Dame Will Win The BCS This Year And Texas Won't: Part 2

  ​I admit, there will be Tuesday mornings when it will be difficult to write this item each week. Luckily, today isn't one of them.In Week Two of the college-football season, Notre Dame continued effortlessly along its well-planned path to the BCS title, while UT stumbled badly.It remains to be seen if the Longhorns can recover from this week's debacle. Once again, we offer five reasons why ND will be a champion and UT won't.1. UT struggled mightily against Wyoming. Wyoming! Or it might have be

  September 15, 2009

• Game Time: Friday Broken Glass

  ​Just cleaning up some random broken glass in my "Blog" folder on a Friday ... Can You Guess This Team? Channeling my inner Cosmo Kramer... WHO WANTS TO HAVE SOME FUN?! Ok, well, I'm going to describe a fairly well known football team to many of you, and after I'm finished describing them, see if you can guess what team it is! The answer is below. (Sorry, other than recommending you go print my NBA Preview post and spend a couple hours on the crapper, this is the best I can do to distrac

  October 30, 2009

• Game Time: The Larry Johnson Situation

  ​Every spring I bring my kids to the Blue-Gold spring football game at the University of Notre Dame. Most seasons, we purchase tickets to that event that allow us (and several hundred other Notre Dame fans) to have breakfast with the team, and then meet all of the players in an exclusive autograph session.Every year without fail, I come away impressed with the kids on the football team there. To a man, they are all some varying combination of courteous, talkative, and friendly, and every yea

  November 10, 2009

• Why Notre Dame Will Win The BCS Title Next YearAnd UT Won't, Part 10

  ​It's been a fun nine weeks, watching the slow, tortuous slide into mediocrity of the Longhorn football program, even as its deluded fans continue to fantasize about a BCS title, completely unaware that Notre Dame is breathing down their back ready to take that title away.Next year.It turns out we read the Mayan calendar all wrong, but luckily we saw 2012 over the weekend and the whole thing was explained to us in a highly scientific, thoroughly researched fashion.So here are five reasons why

  November 17, 2009