All Jacked Up
By Jack Reyering, Sports Columnist
It’s Wednesday morning, three days after the Super Bowl. There will not be another football game for six months. Basketball and hockey seasons are in full swing. On Tuesday, five of the nation’s top 10 college basketball teams were in action. An NBA coach had been fired that day.
Yet, the two lead stories on ESPN that morning were about the NFL and the fallout of the Super Bowl. One analyzed comments Cam Newton had made in the days following the game. In the other, a panel of “experts” discussed whether Peyton Manning would retire.