Lamm at Large

Anyone who follows college football knows it's not only how talented your team is, but who you play.   No sport has a more uneven schedule than college football. Some years it's the luck of the draw in league play. In the SEC, Georgia, for example, goes for its third straight national title without playing Alabama and LSU during the regular season.   Each school controls its non-conference schedule. Most […]

Before Deane Beman became commissioner of the PGA Tour, it bothered him that the Tour created and promoted the stars of the game but it has no official standing with golf's four major championships, the biggest tournaments in the sport. He was determined to create a 5th major, a tournament run by the Tour which would be the players' championship. When he started the TPC he was also determined to […]

The Jaguars need to do whatever it takes to keep tight end Evan Engram. Put the franchise tag on him or, better yet, sign him to a long-term contract. Over pay him it that's what it takes. The importance of the tight end has been increasing for 20 years but the Jaguars' search for a good one has  been  a journey of misery. By my count, the franchise has has […]

The 1988 Kansas Jayhawks lost 11 games. They also won the national championship. No NCAA basketball champ has ever lost more games, although double-digit losers winning the national title was a bit of a trend in the 80s. N.C. State ('82) and Villanova (85) each lost 10 times. Now, after a quarter of a century, it could well happen again, but it wouldn't be a shocker like it was back […]

The PGA Tour's new "elevated" tournaments have been great. So far this season there have already been three of the 17 where the top players are required to play. Strong fields, great competition, $20-million purses, well-known winners. What's not like? That's the good news. The bad news is last week's Honda Classic, one of the longest running stops on the Tour.  The competition was great, but the field was one […]

The college basketball season crazy. Several blue blood programs are hemorrhaging. Being ranked in the top-25 is a heavy burden. Last weekend -- Friday night through Sunday -- 10 ranked teams went down, including top-ranked Purdue to unranked Northwestern. As we near the post-season, you won't find Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky or Louisville near a top-4 seed in any region. As I write this, Duke has already lost eight times, […]

I'm old-fashion but not a prude. And I'm clearly in the minority based on the crowd reaction and social media response. Whatever, I thought Rihanna's halftime show at the Super Bowl was distasteful and vulgar. I couldn't understand many of the lyrics and some I did understand were not words I ever used in front of my mother. Mainly, however, it was the rubbing of private body parts and vulgar […]

I've got some thoughts about the Super Bowl -- but before you scream enough is enough about the Super Bowl, give me a chance to entertain and inform you. First, I've proposed for years the Monday after the Super Bowl should be a national holiday. Less work, sales and manufacturing, is done the Monday after the Super Bowl. More workers call in sick than any other day as well. School […]

Urban Meyer said last week he was no longer interested in coaching. Well that's smart on his part. Who the hell would hire him? Despite a wonderful college career that included winning national championships at Florida and Ohio State, Meyer is toxic now. He has jumped from program to program and it never ended well. So called medical problems caused him to retire, unretire and eventually leave the Gators' program […]