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Samuel Chi
Samuel Chi is Editor of RealClearSports. He may be reached at sam@realclearsports.com.
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Recent Articles
- Introducing: The RCS Blog Network - November 15, 2009
- Dear Readers: We're pleased to announce the launching of the RCS Blog Network, a collection of over 50 blogs covering topics ranging from the New York Yankees, Los...
- Might TCU Get to Play for the BCS Title? - November 14, 2009
- As we get closer to the finish line, it seems like amateur hour all over the web. All sorts of people who have as strong a grasp on college football as they do on...
- The Season's First BCS Bowl Forecast - November 7, 2009
- With five weeks still to go in the regular season, and seven teams still remain unbeaten, the BCS bowl picture is far from clear. But there's enough to at least take a...
- Top 10 NFL Quarterback Busts - November 3, 2009
- "Don't f***ing talk to me! Knock it off!"- Ryan Leaf to San Diego Tribune's Jay Posner It was the defining moment and the epithet on Ryan Leaf's unfulfilled NFL career....
- Who's Your (Sugar) Daddy? - October 31, 2009
- Mike Gundy may be a man now (at least he thinks so), but part of his everyday challenge is very much the burden foisted upon every boy the world over - making his daddy...
- Surving Trap Week - October 24, 2009
- This week may be the calm before the storm. On Halloween, some of this year's BCS title contenders will be facing virtual elimination games. This week, their goal will...
- Charlie Weis' Last Chance - October 17, 2009
- Much has been made about Saturday's game being Charlie Weis' best chance to beat USC since the Bush Push Classic in 2005. The Irish, mired in a seven-year futility...
- Best New Rivalry in College Football? - October 10, 2009
- The SEC is a conference that doesn't lack in blood feuds. Florida-Georgia. Auburn-Georgia. Florida-Tennessee. Auburn-Alabama. ... OK, I don't have all day, but you get...
- ESPN Fumbles Redesign - RealClearPolitics - January 5, 2009
- Split Title for Florida, AP-Style? - December 6, 2008
- This is not an alarmist declaration. It's a fact.Go to Wes Colley's computer, and play God - and see for yourself. A Hawaii win may be enough to provide safe passage for...
- A Split Title for Florida, AP-Style? - RealClearSports - December 5, 2008
- The BCS race will come down to the last game of the regular season. And we don't mean the Big 12 championship game between Oklahoma and Missouri.The last few digits on...
- Eyes of BCS Are Upon Mack Brown - November 29, 2008
- How? As this has been rehashed many times now: Brown has a vote in the coaches poll whereas Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops does not. The coaches do not have to reveal their...
- Eyes of BCS Are Upon Mack Brown - RealClearSports - November 28, 2008
- Coach Mack Brown, how are you gonna vote?That's the 17 million dollar question that Texas coach Mack Brown might have to answer to. Brown just may end up casting the...
- Winning Games and Scoring (Style) Points - November 27, 2008
- Two teams facing this particular predicament this weekend are Texas and Oklahoma. The two Big 12 rivals are locked in a death grip for the No. 2 spot in the BCS...
- Winning Games and Scoring (Style) Points - RealClearSports - November 26, 2008
- Vince Lombardi was wrong about this: Winning is not everything, it's not even the only thing. Winning BIG is what truly counts.We're at a phase of the college football...
- Texas Tech: Party Like It's 1942? - November 22, 2008
- Just how big a deal is that? Let's put it this way: If the Red Raiders win the BCS title this year, it would be the biggest transformation of a program since Ohio State...
- Texas Tech: Party Like It's 1942? - RealClearSports - November 21, 2008
- No one needs to remind Mike Leach and his Texas Tech Red Raiders just how big Saturday night's game at Oklahoma is. Beyond being the BGISH, there are even more historic...
- BCS: The Calm Before Guns Ablaze - November 15, 2008
- Next week, the Biggest Game of the Season and the BGISH (Biggest Game In School History) for Texas Tech will be settled on Owen Field, with the winner moving on and the...
- BCS: The Calm Before Guns Ablaze - RealClearSports - November 14, 2008
- Wyatt Earp is sitting in a saloon (somewhere in Lubbock), all by himself. He's nursing a drink, reminiscing all that's happened in this tumultuous season. When he's...
- Reviewing BCS Contenders' Resumes - November 13, 2008
- You still think the I love the BCS? Sure, it's good for business. But like a vegetarian meat packer - just because you sell it doesn't mean you have to eat it.It's a...
- Reviewing BCS Contenders' Resumes - RealClearSports - November 12, 2008
- So you want to play in the BCS Championship Game? Very well. Come in and have a seat. We have a few worthy candidates and you'll get your turn to state your case.In a...
- Sorting Out the Big 12 Mess - November 10, 2008
- So here's the team-by-team scenarios of how Texas Tech, Texas and Oklahoma might get there:Texas Tech: At No. 2, the road for the Red Raiders is the most...
- Sorting Out the Big 12 Mess - RealClearSports - November 9, 2008
- President Obama, Stay Out of My Business! - November 8, 2008
- "I think it's about time that we have playoffs in college football. ... Get the top eight teams ... get a playoff, decide on a national champion."Are you crazy? I...
- President Obama, Stay Out of My Business! - RealClearSports - November 7, 2008
- One the eve of the presidential election, when asked what's the one thing he'd like to change in sports, Barack Obama fired this stunning rejoinder: Are you...
- The World's Largest O'Douls Party - November 1, 2008
- But I digress.This year's Coke Zero Party is by far the most significant game in the series since the inception of the BCS in 1998. With Georgia sixth and Florida eighth...
- The World's Largest O'Douls Party - RealClearSports - October 31, 2008
- Thanks to another bow to political correctness, three years ago the schools and the SEC demanded that this game be called by the astonishingly clever sobriquet of The...
- First BCS Bowl Forecast, 2008 - October 31, 2008
- We can only dream.But if you really do want to hit one of those BCS bowls and would like to plan early, I'm here to help. With one hand on the crystal ball and the other...
- First BCS Bowl Forecast, 2008 - RealClearSports - October 30, 2008
- Yes, the economy is bad. People are not traveling. Heck, I run a bed and breakfast and we haven't sold out the Georgia-Florida weekend - which was usually a given in my...
- BCS Battleground: Penn State - October 13, 2008
- The reasons are pretty simple: Penn State doesn't have to play in a conference championship game; and the Nittany Lions have an astonishingly favorable schedule.With...
- BCS Battleground: Penn State - RealClearSports - October 12, 2008
- While presidential candidates are busy traversing the Keystone State trolling for votes, Pennsylvania just happens to be the epicenter of another important race that...
- Big 12 Conference: A House of Cards - October 8, 2008
- What exactly is leading to this Big XII dominance? Or it is merely a charade?To be perfectly blunt: This is but a house of cards.Oklahoma may be a legitimate No. 1 team...
- One Loss Good Enough for BCS Run - October 2, 2008
- Bad news, if you pull for Oklahoma, Alabama, LSU, Missouri, Texas or any other BCS conference team that hasn't lost a game this season - your team committed a royal faux...
- One Loss Good Enough for BCS Title Chase - RealClearSports - October 1, 2008
- (Provisional Week 5 Unofficial BCS Standings - will be updated after Anderson & Hester publishes its rankings)Good news, if you root for USC, Georgia or Florida - your...
- Who's the New No. 1? Roll Tide! - September 28, 2008
- The Bulldogs had been ranked No. 2 in the BCS standings and were poised to assume the top ranking after USC's loss. But with the Crimson Tide's convincing victory - the...
- Who's the New No. 1? Roll Tide! - RealClearSports - September 27, 2008
- USC's shocking loss to Oregon State, as it turned out, was merely hors d'oeuvres. Saturday was the feast.Three more teams in the top 10 in the unofficial BCS standings...
- BCS Party Gets Started with USC's Loss - September 26, 2008
- Well, well.USC, too busy making future plans, obviously forgot that those games still needed to be played. But now, with a loss against a Oregon State team that had been...
- BCS Party Gets Started with USC's Loss - RealClearSports - September 25, 2008
- BYU In Line to Bust BCS - September 17, 2008
- Despite their lackluster 14-7 win over South Carolina and subsequent drop in the polls, the Bulldogs jumped back into the second spot because margin of victory cannot be...
- BYU In Line to Bust BCS - RealClearSports - September 16, 2008
- Fresno State's loss to Wisconsin eliminated one of the potential contenders fighting for a BCS bowl berth. But three weeks into the season, a handful of non-BCS...