When Utah Blaze training camp begins Saturday night, coach Ron James will be feeling a little more settled than he was last year. The team has gone through plenty of changes this offseason with new coaches, new personnel, and James himself has taken on a

Contributed image Collins Tuohy's family was featured in the film "The Blind Side." She will speak at Midwestern State University's Artist-Lecture Series Wednesday evening at Akin Auditorium. When high school freshman Collins Tuohy met sophomore Michael

It would be tempting to call the inspirational documentary Undefeated a real-life Blind Side, except for the inconvenient fact that The Blind Side was based on real life, too, adapting Michael Lewis’ book about a white family that nurtured a gifted black

SALISBURY -- Michael Oher's path to playing in the NFL was one where he not only faced adversity, but overcame it. The Baltimore Ravens offensive lineman, who came from a broken home and bleak circumstances, experienced something many other children stil

I’ve been given the privilege of introducing our new Hall of Fame member here from the Vikings. We go back to 1985, he and I got here at the same time. He was a number one draft choice as a linebacker and I was a defensive line coach just hoping at some

There’s a chapter in Michael Lewis’ Moneyball called ‘Giambi’s Hole’, which discusses in part how the Oakland Athletics replaced their star first baseman Jason Giambi. Lewis describes the thinking: The A’s front office had broken down Giambi into his obv

In the NFL, teams are defined by their ability to evaluate top-tier talent at quarterback. At the “combine,” the league’s annual physical evaluation of incoming prospects, the distance between a QB’s thumb and pinky finger can cost him millions of dollar

Since the Super Bowl matchup was decided a couple weeks ago, the spread on Sunday’s game between the Giants and the Patriots has bounced around three points. It’s been a long time since I studied statistics and probability (and maybe I never did, depend

And it is, and they are dismissed—if by "persons" we mean the football managers that oversee such absurd business transactions. But nothing is wrong with buying, if you can afford it. Marouane Chamakh came to Arsenal with the reputation of a proven goal-

Michael Lewis Business Reporter Fortunately for Research In Motion Ltd. , Americans just love a good redemption story. From the Christian evangelical embrace of Republican presidential nominee Newt Gingrich, marital transgressions and all, to the rush to

Look at how big our little boy has become. Back in 2004, Michael Lewis, fresh off his Moneyball success and in early research mode on the book that would be The Blind Side, wrote a piece for The New York Times Magazine called "The Eli Experiment." The ge

Each time the Giants or Jets play a football game, Capital will write about a home-team member who took part in it. This post is about David Diehl, who played left tackle in the Giants’ 20-17 win yesterday over the San Francisco 49ers. The big prize is s

We’s showl is happy that some good-natured white people came to save us from ourselves… Leigh Anne Tuohy is determined to make the world a nicer place, even if she has to do it one Twitter hater at a time. The author, mother, author and inspiration for t

BY J.P. GIGLIO - jgiglionewsobserver.com BY J.P. GIGLIO The News and Observer When Rob Crisp thinks about where he is now and where he could be, he realizes the toughest decision he ever had to make was the correct one. Crisp is a sophomore on N.C. Stat

RALEIGH When Rob Crisp thinks about where he is now and where he could be, he realizes the toughest decision he ever had to make was the correct one. Crisp is a sophomore on N.C. State's football team, part of a new breed of offensive linemen: big and ag

Before Jim Zorn was the Washington Redskins' scapegoat of a head coach, he was a middling quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks. In the late-1970s the Seahawks became famous for their special teams fakes, whether it was surprise onside kicks, or passes on

The 2011 season leaves the Philadelphia Eagles in shambles, with the team needing to target several key areas for the upcoming NFL draft. Andy Reid has assembled a team stocked full of talent at many of the key positions, but he has also neglected severa

On a brisk Thursday evening in mid-November, I sat high in the stands at a Denver Broncos home game, covering the ears of my 4-year-old son as the fans around us launched f-bombs at Tim Tebow, the Broncos' struggling second-year quarterback. Mr. Tebow wa

If you have read Michael Lewis’ book, The Blind Side, or seen the popular movie based on it, you know that the title refers to the fact that quarterbacks, who are typically right-handed, can’t see when a 300-pound opponent is charging at them from the le