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Rich’s Rants – Volume XI

  It’s Tuesday, which means time for another edition of Rich’s Rants.  This week I cover the biggest loss in UCONN football history, the UCONN women’s basketball team’s streak ending and a 7-9 team in the NFL playoffs. UCONN has been playing football at the college level since 1896 but has only been in the [...]

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49ers Head Coach Mike Singletary Fired

The San Francisco 49ers have fired their head coach, Mike Singletary, Sunday night after two disappointing seasons at the helm. After going 5-10 this year, a year the franchise was expected to win the NFC West, the organization came to the conclusion that it just wasn’t working. Team president and CEO Jed York told reporters, [...]

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Rich’s Rants – Volume X

Another Tuesday, another edition of Rich’s Rants.  This week I’ll cover Jon Heyman’s Hall of Fame Vote, the UCONN Women’s consecutive win streak and Michael Vick wanting to own another dog. Earlier this week, Jon Heyman of Sports Illustrated released his Hall of Fame ballot, and once again he’s doing his best to justify voting [...]

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NTSF 116: Why we root the way we do…

It is something that so wholly encompasses the sports fan’s consciousness that it seems second nature. Yet it is one of those things that the fan rarely thinks about as he goes about his daily existence. Rooting for his team or teams, year after year, there are precious few occasions on which he finds himself [...]

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[VIDEO] Minnesota Vikings Stadium, Metrodome, Roof Collapses

The Vikings/Giants game has been canceled today, and rescheduled for Monday, December 13. Why? Well just have a look at the video below. Luckily no one had yet to arrive at the facility for today’s game and no one was hurt. It’s going to cost a pretty penny to fix that though.

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NTSF 115: A Discourse on Playoffs

It’s an age-old question that vexes the sports fan that follows a wide variety of pastimes. And at this time of year — with everyone and their mother bemoaning the BCS, or railing about the potential that a team with a losing record could still win the NFC West and compete for a shot at [...]

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Brad Childress fired by Vikings

The Vikings have fired their head coach Brad Childress after a 3-7 start. The firing comes after a 31-3 loss against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday. It’s a far fall for Childress, who led his team to the NFC Championship game, and was a Brett Favre interception away from reaching the Super Bowl. Leslie [...]

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Rich’s Rants: Volume V

Welcome to another edition of Rich’s Rants; where each Tuesday I discuss several topics that are on my mind from the previous week in sports.  This week there are three topics I’ll cover, so let’s get started. First off, congratulations to the San Francisco Giants in winning the 2010 World Series, 4 games to 1 [...]

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