Greatest Super Bowl halftime show, Forget about Dre

Now all I get is hate mail all day sayin’ Dre fell off’

THE Super Bowl LVI half time show is being hailed as the greatest ever but the ultimate Super Bowl Sunday performance remains that given by Prince in a wild and wet Miami in 2007.

Amid all the stars to have played the 12 minutes between the second and third quarters of America’s biggest game Prince is still probably the most unlikely one to have agreed to it.

Few at Super Bowl XLI (41) however would have predicted that in 15 years time Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg would be the headline act.

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Fighting Irish weary of history repeating itself in the Holy War

Notre Dame unseated top ranked Clemson last weekend and now face Boston College 

Boston College wide receiver Zay Flowers Pic @BCFootball

NOTRE DAME has one of the most illustrious histories in college football but this Saturday will be weary of history repeating itself when it travels to Boston. 

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Election and Covid cast a shadow over college football

College football has already featured in the election campaign and the sport is no longer ignoring the political contest

COULD college football play a decisive role in this Tuesday’s US Presidential election? The sport was dragged into the political battleground due to coronavirus which this week struck its biggest star.

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The SEC: football’s ‘best conference’ tells the history of the South

This Saturday BT ESPN coverage features three games from the SEC ‘the best conference’ which tells the history of the old South

SATURDAYS in the South matter because it is where college football matters as do its traditions and customs but when does holding on to the past become a barrier to progress?

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