Andrew McGuinness
The Road Not Taken
Tadhg Leader doesn’t do things by half. The former professional rugby outhalf and kicker for Connacht rugby team and the US Eagles rugby...
Andrew McGuinness
- Apr 24
- 4 min
No Ordinary Joe
With April comes the turn of the annual football spotlight to fall on the young men jockeying for position in the NFL draft, their eyes...
Andrew McGuinness
- Mar 20
- 3 min
22 Women
It was Friday evening when the man charged with sexual assault of 22 women received the largest contract in NFL history - $230 million,...
Andrew McGuinness
- Dec 23, 2021
- 4 min
Blueblood on Blueblood Crime
On a Monday morning in November under darkness at Oklahoma City airport, several sleek black Tahoe’s rolled up to the airport entrance....
Andrew McGuinness
- Nov 29, 2021
- 3 min
Anti-Vaxx Narrative Unmasks Wazzu and Green Bay
When my family lived in Seattle, friends of ours who happened to be University of Washington Huskies football fans, would greet the...
Andrew McGuinness
- Oct 17, 2021
- 4 min
Nasty Jon Gruden Casts Shadow Over NFL
Jon Gruden’s demise was spectacular and brutal. His end came when first the Wall Street Journal and then the New York Times obtained a...
Andrew McGuinness
- Sep 29, 2021
- 4 min
College Football Has Us All Aroused
If the cat dangling from the top tier of Hard Rock Stadium had a thought, it was probably that using one of its lives to experience...
Andrew McGuinness
- Aug 22, 2021
- 5 min
Black Coaches Usher in Change
In the blazing Atlanta morning sun on a Saturday in July, hundreds of teenagers go through drills at Lakewood Stadium. Football camp has...
Andrew McGuinness
- Aug 10, 2021
- 5 min
No Coming Back From This Summer of Change
College football prides its place as a venerable institution. The tradition and history of the game is prized by giants such as LSU and...
Andrew McGuinness
- Jul 5, 2021
- 3 min
What Ever Happened to Jennifer Capriati?
If America is the land of the comeback kid - just ask many politicians including the Clintons that claim the title - then sports have...
Andrew McGuinness
- Jun 27, 2021
- 6 min
Irish NFL Show takes American Football by Storm
Growing up in Ireland in the late 1980s and early 1990s was a precarious place to be an NFL fan. The passion for your NFL team was...
Andrew McGuinness
- May 3, 2021
- 6 min
2021 Draft Class Share Big Day With Aaron Rodgers
Jim Nagy, former NFL scout, saliently addressed what the NFL Draft is and isn’t, declaring: “The whole ‘NFL draft is a crapshoot’...
Andrew McGuinness
- Apr 14, 2021
- 5 min
Building the 2021 Roster: Part 1
A new NFL season is underway and the jockeying for position has already begun. Free agency has concluded, with a number of teams -...
Andrew McGuinness
- Mar 12, 2021
- 5 min
Georgia on My Mind: The SEC
I have written a lot over the past season about how out of crisis can come opportunity. If I apply the example of my family navigating...
Andrew McGuinness
- Feb 8, 2021
- 4 min
Brady and Buccaneers Defense Take Tampa to Super Bowl Dreamland
Led by an imperious defense that gave Patrick Mahomes a torrid time, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were able to ride Tom Brady’s big game...
Andrew McGuinness
- Feb 1, 2021
- 5 min
A Super Bowl End To An Extraordinary Season
Nothing about the build up to this Super Bowl is familiar. The Kansas City Chiefs, due to COVID-19 protocols, won’t be allowed to arrive...
Andrew McGuinness
- Jan 25, 2021
- 4 min
No Risk It, No Super Bowl Biscuit
Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes performed magic to give us a Tampa Bay Buccaneers against the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl. The Chiefs...
Andrew McGuinness
- Jan 18, 2021
- 7 min
“#HenneThingIsPossible”
Football has been a welcome distraction during the pandemic. And playoff football has come into its own over these unprecedented weeks in...
Andrew McGuinness
- Jan 11, 2021
- 6 min
Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen Re-Write Playoff Narrative
Two young quarterbacks with different styles, who have been critiqued and scrutinized, are reloading this week for a deep playoff run in...
Andrew McGuinness
- Jan 4, 2021
- 4 min
Road to Tampa Still Goes Through The Pandemic
Listening to Colts head coach Frank Reich talk poignantly about missing the emotional and physical kinship that football provides, was a...