Like the offside rule itself, Offside Today still has some room for improvement. However it differs from that perpetually discussed law in that it's not a necessary evil, but a necessary platform to help keep the issue at the forefront of the football debate.

With a history section detailing the evolution of the law down the ages, it also draws attention to current offside controversies in a game-by-game basis.

Well anyway, I’d like to be the first to let baseball know that nobody fucking cares the season has started because the league sucks!  Hmmmmmmm, let me guess … the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox franchises are the favorites to spend the most money errrrrrrrrrrrrr ... I mean, win the World Series.  Of course in baseball, those two phrases pretty-much mean the same thing.

Congratulations Baseball on another season where five revenue-generating teams are competing for the championship while the rest of the league break-in their really good players only to have them be bought by one of those five teams next year.

I guess all I can hope for is that THIS IS THE YEAR that one of your roided-up players will finally explode on national TV.  Or snap and take out the first two rows of fans with a meat clever. (If there are actually that many in the stands that is)

PLAY BALL!!!

One good thing about the start of baseball season… It means that Football season is only four months away.

Now, I have nothing against country music or even Dwight Yoakam for that matter, he had some great hits a few years back. However, while every other school gets artists that are current hit-makers. WVU gets a guy that hasn't had a hit this decade. Yoakam's newest CD is a Buck Owens tribute album, which I'm sure is a name a lot of people also aren't familiar with. Tennessee and Kentucky were able to land current country hit artists Taylor Swift, Dierks Bentley and Montgomery Gentry. Utah will host Maroon 5, Rutgers will host Fall Out Boy, West Virginia will host Dwight freakin' Yoakam. Damn.

The NCAA is trying to shorten our college football games again (so they can insert more commercials!) The Wizard of Odds has the rundown on the rule changes. I say, why try to shorten the games? I only get 12 games a year, maybe 13 if you count in a bowl game. I don't want them to be shorter. If anything, I want them to be longer. My only problem with televised long games is when a game goes over its allotted time slot and cuts off coverage of another game I wanted to watch. But you'll never be able to remedy that, given the possibility of overtime, a long game stoppage for an injured player, or any other plethora of things that could go wrong. And there are games I have attended in person where I just wanted it to be over because I was either sun-burnt, dehydrated and ready to pass out from heat exhaustion, or cold, wet, and numb from the neck down. But that's what makes college football great. But television wants to make college more like the NFL. After all, look at the boatload of cash that they make from the NFL. So what if there are 20 commercial breaks in a quarter. The part that really burns me on NFL games is the touchdown, extra point, commercial, kickoff, commercial, ensuing play sequence. Why not just have one really long break before the kickoff?

Anyway, the rules changes include a 40-second NFL-style play clock. This could actually benefit WVU, if the ball gets marked for play they could have more time to line up in formation and make changes to the play, or run more motion as it sounds like Jeff Mullen wants to do with our offense. The coach gets an extra replay challenge if the first one is upheld. I didn't realize that wasn't the case already, I'm fine with that one. No more sideline warning, it automatically goes to a 5-yard penalty. I love that one. It's been getting worse and worse with players and coaches crowding up on the sidelines for years. I'm glad they're doing something about that.

Horse-collar tackles will now involve a 15-yard penalty. Fantastic! How many times was Pat White horse-collared in the past three seasons? Out of bounds on a kickoff will give the receiving team a chance to take the ball at the 40. I think that's too much of a penalty for college kickers.

All in all I'm tired of the rules getting tinkered with every year. It's never anything major, but how can you consistently compare teams from year-to-year when they are playing with (slightly) different rule sets? Just look at how popular college football is across the board in this decade, there's really nothing broken that the NCAA needs to fix. Well, at least not in this regard.