On Sept. 13, Francisco Rodriguez set a new single-season saves record, recording his 58th to pass Bobby Thigpen. That same day, federal officials and financial executives were hunting for a solution to the imminent collapse of Lehman Brothers. The first event made Rodriguez’s impending free agency seem very well-timed. The second, not so much. His [...]

Your guest Fixer is Garey G. Ris:
Tampa Bay and Carolina went into their matchup Monday with 9-3 records to sit tied atop the NFC South. When it was over, the Panthers’ DeAngelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart had run roughshod over the Buccaneers; Carolina had won, 38-23; and the Panthers held the second-best record in the [...]

As college football entered bowl season rather than the hypothetical playoff system preferred by the president-elect, the Daily Fix and other entities with no power nor TV money to change things, it’s worth considering the case of two rivals in one of the sport’s best conferences.
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Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, teammate Javier Estopinan and the [...]