As an announcer, he was certainly a polarizing figure and his blatant homerism certainly was a throwback to radio days long in the scrapbooks.
ESPN looks at Harrelson, the difference between Ken and "Hawk", the routine at the ballpark and at home and more.
I've always liked Hawk, but I can easily understand why other fans would not!
Still listening to Hawk's calls, I always thought he added fun to a game that needs more and more of just that.
My all-time favorite basketball coach (as far as the NBA anyway) Larry Brown is still coaching at the age of 78- this time in Italy.
Brown, who always seemed to be looking for Camelot and as a result lost many opportunities through the years to build dynasties, although he almost always delivered winners at his various stops, has run out of teams in the states between his vagabond ways and his age.
The Athletic checks in on Brown and offered a few notes that I didn't know about, including why he didn't pick Paul Pierce when he was with Philadelphia even though he knew he was making a mistake.
The SWC Roundup writes of a rivalry between two teams that usually are at or near the bottom of Division I, but usually, play very close games that offer memorable endings.
New Mexico State and UTEP play in the "Battle of I-10" and two rivalry trophies are on the line in the Silver Spade and Brass Spittoon.
Often the most torrid rivalries are from teams on the same level and both of these teams that usually (New Mexico State did win six games and a bowl last year) struggle to win more than two or three games look at each other as not only rivals, players from the same high schools that have played against each other before, but as a good opportunity for a victory.
This article looks at three games between 1989-91 where UTEP won all three games by a combined six points.
Their game this season was reasonably close with the Aggies defeating the Miners 27-20.
Another rivalry from schools of similar quality seems to be fierce despite the teams only playing each other twice as of now as Texas State (Sun Belt) and UTSA (Texas-San Antonio, Conference USA) have developed some hate with each school drawing over 30,000 for their home game in the series thus far.
There is a nice ( but pretty generic looking) trophy given to the winner, but it looks more like a larger and shinier version of a fantasy football league trophy.
A regional supermarket (HEB) sponsors the game and trophy, but a fan has come up with an idea that favors neither school but plays to the sponsor with a golden shopping cart.
Weird? Yes, but that's college football!
18 Birdies covers the evolution of the golf ball over the years going way back to the first golf ball in 1550 which was an all wooden ball!
Imagine hitting a ball made of wood with the limited clubs of the time and think about just how far that ball "flew"!
The article moves through several other phases that the ball moved through in how they were made during each change of the ball and was quite interesting to read about what the balls were made of and contained on the inside.
We leave with the passing of former Philadelphia Eagles safety Wes Hopkins at the age of 57.
Hopkins was a second-round pick of the Eagles in 1983, was a first team all-pro in 1985, a devastating thumper in the Ronnie Lott mold and seemed to be on his way to an outstanding career.
A devastating 1986 knee injury ruined all of that and even though Hopkins would return from the injury to be a starter and a fine player, he was never able to reach his previous form, which had he been able to maintain that level of play might have placed him in Hall of Fame consideration.
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