Tag: Lang Whitaker

We got sports! Fri-Day! Yes! And as you roll into the weekend, here’s a quick guide with a few things worthy of your precious free time… Underdogs? In my humble opinion, Ole Miss has been the most impressive college football team in the country this season. They not only won a neutral site game against…

What a time to love college football in Mississippi If you’re a college football fan in the state of Mississippi, what a time to be alive! The two biggest college football teams, Ole Miss and Mississippi State, are a combined 6-0, with a couple of wins over formidable opponents. Ole Miss, for example, just knocked…

Lane Kiffin and Sourdough Bread Have you ever tried baking sourdough bread? A few weeks ago, while visiting a relative in South Carolina, I had a slice of sourdough that made me want to get into the sourdough game. After all, I am an accomplished chef—comfortable in the kitchen making pretty much anything. How hard…

All football, all the time Here is a mostly complete list of the football games I consumed in whole or in part over the last few days: Patriots/SeahawksRams/49ersMemphis/Boise StateGeorgia/Western KentuckyOhio State/TexasArizona State/Texas A&MMississippi State/MinnesotaOklahoma State/OregonOklahoma/MichiganTennessee/Georgia TechFalcons/SteelersJets/TitansSaints/LionsCowboys/Giants I also managed to play a complete round of golf, watch the Braves own the Phillies, drop my son…

The Lane Train is a bumpy ride Fri-Day! Yes! And as you roll into the weekend, here’s a quick guide with a few things worthy of your precious free time… In His Lane As a fervent observer of the SEC, I’ve seen a lot of weird things through the years, but I’m not sure I’ve…

The NFL Returns! The NFL returns to action on Wednesday night with a banger of a matchup, as the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots square off on NBC in a Super Bowl rematch. This is followed 24 hours later by a game between the 49ers and Rams live from Australia, for some reason, and…

College Football is here! College football’s Week Zero brought us a couple of fun matchups, most relevantly the big Memphis win at UNLV. But, blessedly, Week One is finally here, and we can stop talking about restraining orders and transfer portals and dig into a full weekend of college football. Here are five games I’ll…

The Tigers open with a memorable Vegas vacation It took until early Sunday morning for Memphis football to finish out their first game of the year, but ask anyone who managed to stay awake, and they’ll tell you it was definitely worth it. After a tenuous first half, the Tigers figured things out in the…

Can the Tigers roar? Go Tigers Go We made it, y’all. Week Zero is here, which means this weekend we finally get college football. It ain’t much, admittedly, but at least it’s something. North Carolina and TCU squaring off in Ireland may not be much of a game, but we do get Memphis against UNLV…

Believing in belief I planned my whole weekend around Saturday morning. It was the opening weekend of the English Premier League season, and my team, Manchester United, kicked off our first game at 6:30 a.m. Memphis time. My wife was out of town, my son would still be asleep. It would require an early alarm,…