Sports In America; God Bless The USA!

Forgive me for reposting this article, but with a brother overseas serving in the military and a long history of loving this country, I will always bleed red, white and blue! As such, I love finding reasons to wave the flag. With that in mind, I repost the following article and remind you this is the greatest country on Earth!

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As the fourth of July approached, I began my yearly assault on YouTube to find my favorite versions of the National Anthem, God Bless America, and many other patriotic songs and tributes.

Some of my favorites are patriotic songs set to edited tribute videos of flags, soldiers, etc. However, the majority of my favorite versions have been sung at stadiums across the country during major sporting events such as the Superbowl and NBA All-Star game.

The following is a list of my top five favorite patriotic videos...

Righteous Judgement

If you read the Bible, no where does it say you are forbidden to judge other people. It does, however, tell you to judge righteously.

As a sports writer, judging the performance of players and coaches comes with the job description. My whole job is predicated on the freedom to judge every angle of a sporting event. Hell (don't judge me), but when I attend a game, I'm gonna judge the quality of the concessions and ease of parking.

For this particular article though, I'm going to provide judgement to the hottest topic in sports right now: Tim Tebow.

To do so, I'm going to follow the counsel of the good book and judge him righteously...

How Good Is BYU Quarterback Riley Nelson?

And the comeback is complete!

It's interesting how your night can change with one phone call. One second you are on the way to babysit for a friend and the next you are walking into Lavell Edwards Stadium with that same friend.

I hadn't been to a BYU game for a few years, so when my friend called and told me his wife wasn't feeling well and I would be joining him at the game, instead of babysitting for him, I was more than happy for the change.

I hope my friend's wife is feeling better, but thank heaven's she was sick last night, because that was one of the best game's I have ever been to! 

What If The Yankees Let The Rays Win Tonight?!

The Boston Red Sox sure didn't draw it up this way at the beginning of the season, but here we are on the last day of the season and the Red Sox are tied with the Tampa Bay Rays for the wild card spot in this year's playoffs.

Boston takes on the Baltimore Orioles tonight, while Tampa goes up against the New York Yankees, who have already secured their post season spot.

Imagine that. Boston will actually be cheering for the Yankees to win tonight, which begs the question...

Do the Yankees let the Rays win just to help keep the Sox out of the playoffs?

More Yankee Arrogance

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So Brian Cashman says he publicly courted Carl Crawford last season with the sole purpose of making the Red Sox pay more to secure the free agent outfielder.

Is this a good strategy? Yes.

Has it happened before? Yes.

Do I believe Cashman? Absolutely not.

Conference Expansion; A Sickening Trend

Hurray, Hurray, the Pac-12 decided against tearing what's left of the Big 12 to threads and expanding to 16 teams. We've all been saved from college football expansion overload.

Wrong.

The college football landscape is still very unsettled and extremely volatile. Yes, the Big 12 is safe for another day. That's about it.

I'm convinced aggressive conference expansion will continue until it rips apart the college football scene. While this sounds very negative, which it mostly is, there are still some positives to alongside those greedy negatives...

The 5 Worst College Football Uniforms

After watching the opening weekend of college football and seeing Maryland's new uniforms, I began thinking about other schools with terrible uniforms.

While the Terrapins new uniforms (and i use that term loosely) are far and away the worst thing I have ever seen, there are a few other teams who jog onto the field each Saturday looking pretty disgraceful.

Without further ado, I give the you the five worst uniforms in college football...