Today, Comrades, we come to you to remind you of the oft-told story of Joseph Stalin. Facing a domestic industrial complex ravaged by the Russian Civil War, Stalin embarked on a program of forced, brutal industrialization. Over the course of nine years, the nation’s coal output (which fueled their manufacturing) more than tripled, employment sky-rocketed, [...]

To me, this is so mindblowing that it could only have come from Eroc and CoachBT.  They are ranking the Michigan quarterback by intangibles.  Let me repeat that, they are RANKING quarterbacks by INTANGIBLES.  Intangibles, which by definition cannot be measured.  $5 to whomever can explain this to me: Intangibles: In our opinion this is [...]

A contribution from haphazard contributor imafreak. Exposition: I came in out of the cold blackness of a life innocent of college football in 1991 when I arrived at the University of Michigan for graduate school. I had 15+ years of NFL experience but I was a college football virgin (now, Bo, he was the one [...]

I wrote this last summer but never posted it. Since Uniscorn is starting to creak under the pressure of 4,000 posts, I figured this would be a good time to do another edition of WLA B-Sides. In the roaring 900s, Vikings led by Erik the Red settled in a then hospitable Greenland after being chased [...]

The year is 1892. The place is Birmingham, Alabama. The University of Alabama ponders whether to sanction it’s first ever football game, against a team comprised of a hodge-podge of local Birmingham high school players, and a second against a group of east-coast transplants who were much more familiar with rugby. Traditional powers such as [...]