DOG COMMENTARY: The 1986 Cotton Bowl Classic was an American college football bowl game played on January 1, 1986 at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. It was the 50th Cotton Bowl Classic held….in a game that featured the Texas A&M Aggies and the Auburn Tigers….who feature one of the all-time great college running backs in Bo Jackson….as Bo was bemg Bo on this day….in a season in…
DOG COMMENTARY: There has never been or ever will be a rivalry quite like the rivalry between the Texas Longhorns and the Texas A & M Aggies….with the first meeting being in 1894….and by 1911, Texas led the series 15–4–2. The series went back and forth until 1939….but Texas still led 27–15–4. After that, Texas…
DOG ASIDE: The 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics provided some wonderful highs and disheartening lows….which is typical of any Olympic Games…..for the talent is so expansive….causing the challenges to be greater and the risks to be higher. The figure skating pairs competition short program at these 1988 Calgary Games certainly provided one of these wonderful…
DOG ASIDE: In and around Austin, Texas….the Live Music Capital of the World….there is one man who not only fills the house with “roadhouse blues” fans….but fills the house full of beautiful women that like to dance….and that my friends is Delbert McClinton….as he has been doing so for a very long time now. We at ImaSportsphile…
DOG COMMENTARY: Here at ImaSportsphile, there is really no event that is bigger each year to a Sportsphile than March Madness….Bracketology…we mean NOTHING BIGGER….for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament provides as good of an example of what sports….and therefore….Sportphiles are all about. March Madness brings an energy to the world that only sports can bring…..an…
DOG ASIDE: This NBC Pregame Show for the 1985 NFL AFC Divisional Championship between the New England Patriots vs. Los Angeles was hosted by the NFL ’85 crew of Bob Costas, Ahmad Rashad and Pete Axthelm….along with their legendary broadcast team of Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen. As a side note, the sports world lost…
DOG ASIDE: There is not a better precision military marching band anywhere in the world that even comes close to comparing with The Fightin’ Aggie Band….as the members the Army Corp Band at Texas A & M University perform sophisticated military march steps, turns and formations while playing rousing music marches every weekend at Aggie football…
DOG ASIDE: Every now and then in everyone’s life come a moment that brings “a sweet joyful feeling” deep down inside of the soul….and this video does that for me….for this is a very endearing video that just makes you “really like” Smokin Joe Frazier. First and foremost, as a Sportsphile, what is there to not like…
DOG COMMENTARY: The 35th National Basketball Association All-Star Game was played on February 10, 1985 at the Hoosier Dome, Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana….as the coaches were K. C. Jones (Boston Celtics) for the East….and Pat Riley (Los Angeles Lakers) for the West. The East Team was led by Detroits’ Isiah Thomas with 22 points….followed by Celtics’ Larry Bird with 21, Bucks’ Terry…