12/28/2025 Like any impulsive and slightly bored nineteen-year-old male, I decided to chop off nearly all my hair and get a buzz cut this week. Yes, it looks as bad as you might think. Fortunately, as previously established in this column, I am still 6’4 and absolutely jacked, so it’s not the end of the world. If I were hypothetically 5’8 and 3/4ths and arguably malnourished, I might look like a “rebellious fifth-grader” as my friends have so kindly called me.  Some might ass

12/28/2025 This time of year is always full of “year in review” articles and lists. I learned that one of the big fads of 2025 was the “75 Hard Challenge.” Since I am usually the last to catch on to new fads (I continue to be in my animal print fashion phase, I’m still indulging in the Mediterranean diet, and I just recently stopped using the phrase “talk to the hand”), I was glad my daughter was home from college to educate me on this new wellness program. It didn’t take lon

12/22/2025 Notre Dame had only one game this week on Sunday night at home vs. Bellarmine. It was their last game before the holidays and they don’t play again for more than a week. If you bet Notre Dame and gave the points (55.5 lol), you won! Behind Hannah Hidalgo’s second career triple double, the Irish eked out a 74 point win over the Knights. Hidalgo had 30 points, 13 steals, and 10 assists and played only 22 minutes due to the blowout. Bellarmine starter, Kayce Hyman, pl

DOMINATION RANKINGS OF EVERYTHING If you'd like to be one of our voters, just click here: VOTE Uh, Dave, what are we voting for. Well, as you know, College Basketball Times created the Domination Rankings - of college basketball. (Come on, let me assume you knew that.) Anyway, we decided to expand things a bit to include, well, everything together. The result: essentially a satire on all rankings. Here's how it works - sort of: Our voters come up with a weekly Top 25 which

12/19/2025 Tom Izzo just became the highest paid coach in the Big10. Maybe he can now afford clothes that don't say Michigan State. 12/16/2025 According to ESPN, Michigan has launched a query into its athletic department. Step 1: Ponder what constitutes a query. 12/13/2025 Univ of Utah said it formed a partnership with a private equity firm because it would’ve been bad marketing to say it formed a partnership with the devil. 12/9/2025 On Sunday, Gonzaga’s Mark Few became the

12/22/2025 Everyone loves getting a good gift. I mean, that is really the point of Christmas, after all. But I’d argue that giving a good gift is even better. Because giving a good gift just has a certain sense of satisfaction. One year, I got my vegetarian parents an Outback Steakhouse gift card, and I still chuckle about it to this day. The same feeling is found in giving genuinely meaningful gifts, or so I’ve heard.  That satisfaction leads to genuinely passionate gift giv

12/22/2025 In League With Creighton Week 7: The "Almost Arrested in Omaha" Edition It was 3:00 AM on Saturday, and my eyeballs were pinned to the top of my forehead. I’d been staring at the ceiling since ten. I hadn’t slept in days. I couldn’t stop thinking about the Creighton-Xavier game from a few nights earlier. Who was this Creighton team? How had a pusillanimous collection of finesse players, seemingly stuck in neutral for over a month, suddenly become a well-oiled offen

12/22/2025 Reed Arena or a Track Meet? Aggies Run Past East Texas A&M COLLEGE STATION, Texas  — If you walked into Reed Arena on Sunday afternoon expecting a basketball game, you might have been confused to find a track meet where one team was allowed to use a hoop. Rashaun Agee  decided the first five minutes were his personal layup line, scoring the Aggies' first eight points while the  East Texas A&M Lions  were seemingly still trying to find parking. Agee finished with a

12/22/2025 On Sunday afternoon in South Bend, IN in their only game of the week, Notre Dame wrapped up non-conference play by losing to 13 point underdog, Purdue Fort Wayne, 72-69. The Irish loss was their first home defeat of the year and their first ever against the Mastodons. It also stopped a couple of winning streaks - four overall and two (apparently) when forward Carson Towt wears a headband.  I don’t know why I know that last stat. But I do know it is the last time I

12/21/2025 The ‘Cats have begun to right the ship over the last two weeks with a couple of much needed, convincing victories. After dispatching the vaunted juggernaut from Durham, North Carolina, the Eagles of North Carolina Central University on December 9 th , the Wildcats followed up with a 2 nd half blitzkrieg at Rupp of the Indiana Hoosiers, outscoring IU 40-19 during a second half explosion, cruising to a 12 point victory, despite trailing by 7 at the half. Yet another

12/22/2025 The Kennesaw State Report Week 6:  Rampage in Rocket City Huntsville, Alabama is an odd place.  It’s the rare American city where the military and aerospace industries employ more than half of the population.  It’s also a city where more than half of the registered voters believe the moon landing was faked.  You will regularly encounter people who are simultaneously flat-earthers and also build technology that has sent people in tin cans into outer space. Huntsvill

12/21/2025 After a week off, TCU decided to sleep through the first half of the day much like me this holiday break, going down 7 to Incarnate Word. They turned it around and got to the line 25 times to sneak past the Cardinals despite an abysmal 19% clip from three. This moved Incarnate Word to 5-6 and 0-5 on the road to make them the 2nd worst Cardinals in sports. Sorry Arizona football fans.    TCU cleaned up the rest of their easy week with blowout wins over Oral Roberts