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sad Alabama fans, OU win

HH: Blocked kick, pick-6 send Alabama fans home sad

Watching television as a youngster in the early 1980s was a massive pain in the ass. I vividly remember one morning in 1983 when 9-year-old...
Early College Football Playoff rankings

HH: Early College Football Playoff rankings ‘irritating and irrelevant’

Circa 1998, my workday at the sports desk at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal started innocently enough as I made what I thought to be a rather...
R. Mason Thomas, Nebraska AD dumbassery

HH: Rumbling, stumbling TD topples Tennessee; Nebraska AD achieves dumbassery

If the world were run by college athletic directors, we’d all be bankrupt and writhing in ruin. Last week, I discussed how college football coaches...
OU X-factor

HH: OU finds X-factor on offense, defense drops a dud

I was playing the original Legend of Zelda video game the other night, and the saga starts when protagonist Link wanders into a cave where...

HH: The Brave New World of college football

Aldous Huxley published his world-renown novel Brave New World way back in 1931. In his dystopian piece of fiction (one of my favorite genres), Huxley described...
Brent Venables maskirovka

Hangover Highlights: Brent Venables masters the maskirovka, struggles with the scoring

One of my all-time favorite books is Tom Clancy’s Red Storm Rising. A major plot point in the first third of the book (first published...
targeting

HH: If only the officials knew targeting when they saw it

In 1964, the phrase, "I know it when I see it," became carved into the national lexicon. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart coined it...
Mike Gundy gone

Hangover Highlights: An end to the bender in Stillwater

Harvey Dent was right. “You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain,” Dent said in the 2008 film...
OU annihilates Jackson Arnold

HH: OU annihilates Jackson Arnold, OSU fans feel pain in Payne County

Of all the things I could have picked to watch on television Thursday, I certainly chose an option. That particular evening three nights ago, I...
OU goes 3-0

HH: OU goes 3-0, bad kicks lick Notre Dame, Tennessee

On Saturday night, I watched a sport that has suffered more self-inflicted punishment than any other. Between administrators with anything other than best interests in...

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