by Matt Zemek | Oct 19, 2015
The NBA season is just a week away, so the team at Crossover Chronicles is gearing up for all the action. We’ll convene a roundtable a day through next Tuesday, when the 2015-2016 NBA campaign begins. Our first topic in this buffet of basketball talk before the...
by Matt Zemek | Oct 18, 2015
In the larger run of any sports season, some losses are more meaningful and devastating than others. Yet, you don’t have to think too hard to realize that in football, each individual loss is far more significant and weighty than in other team sports. Great...
by Matt Zemek | Oct 17, 2015
The critics will say the Big Ten West is weak. The critics will say that Northwestern was a pretender, having benefited from a 9 a.m. Pacific time start against Stanford, and having played teams (Duke, Minnesota) which simply did not have the offensive firepower...
by Matt Zemek | Oct 13, 2015
Stephen Orr Spurrier is a figure who demands and deserves treatment on many levels: yes, as a football coach, but also as a personality, a professional in a rough business, an innovator, and as an architect of two programs. Had he stayed at Duke for several more...
by Matt Zemek | Oct 13, 2015
Stephen Orr Spurrier is a figure who demands and deserves treatment on many levels: yes, as a football coach, but also as a personality, a professional in a rough business, an innovator, and as an architect of two programs. Had he stayed at Duke for several more...