Recent content by Lord Jim

I was one of them. The Spanish language announcers just seem more excited to be there. Even if you don't understand everything they say, it just seems more compelling.

The problem soccer in the US has is that if Erling Haaland grew up here, he'd be playing tight end. Strikers with 4.3 speed that are over 5'10" will be playing cornerback. We get great soccer athletes, but not the cream of the crop and we never will.

Trey Lance?

A CBA is all well and good until teams start to go on strike. A CBA basically institutionalizes the "uncles" and adds another layer of middlemen feeding at the trough. The current students may be employees but they don't pay union dues.

That would be a very honest and transparent way to do solve it, which is why it will never be done.

Congress has the same handicap that the NCAA has. They want to protect non-revenue sports (read women's sports Title IX) at the expense of getting revenue-generating athletes their fair share of the pie. Until there is TV revenue sharing by sport, this will continue to be a problem.

ND lottery allotment is sold out.

Got this nugget at a coaching clinic that still sticks with me: There are more elite teams than there are elite athletes.

This is stupid. Why should a regular person pay taxes on their wages, but a college kid making millions not be taxed? I'm all for NIL, but the kids need to pay taxes like the rest of us. A good life lesson for them.

She wants to work at Catholic institution in order to destroy it from within.

Simple response: At least ND can beat Michigan.

I remember it like it was yesterday. Sitting in the family room watching it on the 19" color TV. It was tape delayed to show in prime time and Jim McKay was in the studio. As the game progressed, Jim had trouble containing himself (he knew the outcome) and you could tell that something was...