Steve Greenberg
Sports Columnist
Steve Greenberg is a sports columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times.
Why is Shannon, the best player on the 16th-ranked team in the land, averaging 21.7 points, shooting 50.8% from the field and 42.4% from three and being talked about in All-American terms? Read on.
The 11U Cowboys were on a Pop Warner mission after finishing as national runners-up a year ago.
That’s a question they’re going to have to answer — if they haven’t already — whether or not there’s a strong trade market for LaVine, a player with all the physical tools but some that too often go unused.
Lou Holtz talked smack, Marcus Freeman bumbled, a football field turned black and Connor Stalions did his thing. All of them and more are honored here.
Why isn’t Northwestern ranked after beating then-No. 1 Purdue? The answer must be that it would make too much sense. But that’s just one of many examples.
College Football Playoff takes Michigan, Washington, Texas, Alabama; Northwestern-Utah in Vegas Bowl
The Seminoles are the first unbeaten Power 5 champ to be left out of the four-team playoff, which started in 2014.
Incredibly, this game was even better than the one on Super Bowl Sunday.
If the results tell us anything, it’s that voters were, on the whole, unable to distinguish between one brand of awful and the other.
We are primed for chaos, with a bunch of unbeaten teams going into championship weekend and a few teams behind them with absolutely stellar résumés.