I am not thrilled to link to him but Clay Travis makes some interesting observations on Yahoo!'s meteoric rise... With yesterday's announcement that Yahoo is rebranding Sporting News radio and...

In the interest of brevity, an attempt to avoid excessive rambling, I'll try to keep this short and sweet. I'm stepping down as an editor for Conquest Chronicles today after the past year and a...

  Tomb of the Unknowns (via FLICKR: Tony the Misfit)     I will try to say very little here... Over the past few years it has been in vogue to take the time to publicly pay homage to our...

Rams vs. Seahawks. 5:20 p.m. PST. NBC. Turn your television sets on. One team is 7-8. The other is 6-9. One starts a rookie under center, who's actually rather good. The other starts a balding...

May your holiday season and New Year bring joy, peace and happiness. And of course, a successful NCAA appeal! FIGHT ON!

Vince Young wants the Heisman...

I thought I would have a little fun with a number of the tweets I read through out the day... So lets get started! Veiled Kiffin Shot Two, courtesy of Urban Meyer on new Tenn coach Derek Dickey:...

UT's cover charges might pile up into a major violation: http://bylawblog.com/l/8less than a minute ago via Tweetie for MacThe Bylaw Blogbylawblog   Wouldn't that be rich! Looks like all that...

Well, the wait is over. SB Nation Los Angeles launched last night - with much fanfare of course. Conquest Chronicles's very own Julio Nieves, who will be contributing USC content for the site,...

The World Cup has now kicked over to the elimination rounds: win or go home. If the US wants to get to the quarterfinals, they have to get past Ghana, the team who put them out of the 2006 World...

As you may or may not know, SB Nation has been launching regional sites as a new way to bring fans with teams in the same city together.  Here's a link for more info.  Fifteen of the 20 regional...

Apologies for not posting a game thread for the US - Algeria game; I was crashing through a bunch of work after several days off so that I could watch the game without distractions.  Anyway:...

In case any of you are awake on the west coast, feel free to post comments etc. about the US - Slovenia game here.  It's been an interesting few days - Spain contrived to lose to Switzerland,Â...

Just up the street from USC at Staples Center, the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, led by tenured head coach Phil Jackson and future hall-of-famer Kobe Bryant, won their second consecutive NBA...

Just in case anyone's interested and online, here's an open thread for the US - England game to be played this afternoon. The English feel confident that they can pick up a win, looking at the...

The obvious answer for most people who read this would be that they support the US, I'd imagine. But the nature of being a soccer fan in the US for any length of time has resulted in most people...