For months on months, NFL general managers, personnel directors, scouts and head coaches have been stewing over game films,

My first true love was Lauren Pardini, a pig-tailed brunette, in the first grade. My first true sports love was baseball. I’ve loved it since youth, played it and collected baseball cards. (If you need an extra for your softball team, my e-mail is listed above.) And unlike my courtship of Miss Pardini, baseball has […]

Here’s a personal admission: NASCAR never interested me growing up. Sitting, during an afternoon, watching cars go round and round on TV was somewhere between golf “pre-Tiger Woods” and observing grass growing. Oddly, with age comes open-mindedness. NASCAR is no longer the sport of the stereotypical slack-jawed redneck. From a marketing standpoint, there might not […]

Cavalier football fans need another quarterback concern like they need a hole in the head. Sophomore Jameel Sewell, who took over the position last season in the third game of the year against Western Michigan, is recovering from off-season wrist surgery that has left the team with questions rather then security. “I think anytime a […]

The echoes of Sean Singletary’s rim-rattling three-point effort have faded. The NFL draft is still a month away and how much can you really get juiced up for spring football? The Boys of Summer are back.  Grab a hot dog and some Cracker Jacks, crank up the ball game on the radio, and ditch the […]

Bob Motley is not a name that gets tossed around on Baseball Tonight. If you asked 10 so-called “baseball purists” who he is, the smart money would say not a one would know.Motley is the last living umpire from the Negro Leagues and sadly, one of the last living men affiliated with that era of […]

You want more madness? Yes, it’s that time of the year to ink in the brackets and make up the always unbelievable excuse for why you get sick on the same Thursday every year.  A noteworthy bald-headed commentator for ESPN would say, “It’s the Madness, Baby!” This year the field of 65 welcomes back the […]

Last Friday, the day after the death of Boston Celtics great Dennis Johnson, there was much remembering of a man that the legend Larry Bird called the greatest teammate he ever had.  Along with his passing, the questions arose why Johnson had never been placed into the Hall of Fame and why had he continued […]

Following National Signing Day earlier this month, Virginia football Head Coach Al Groh (www.virginiasports.cstv.com) took a few minutes to sit down and talk to C-VILLE Weekly about his recruiting class, his coaching staff, and an interesting off-season. University of Virginia football’s Al Groh recently got a rare chance to think like a fan, and not […]