Jeff MacGregor

Jeff MacGregor

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Jeff MacGregor is a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine.

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Big thoughts on The Who, Tebow, HOF

Jeff MacGregor, ESPN.com

Jeff MacGregor offers his thoughts on The Big Game, the struggle between Drew Brees and Peyton Manning, The Who at halftime, Tim Tebow's anticlimactic ad, the Hall of Fame, and the overblown weekend of football.

Story | Conversation | February 8, 2010

Native Sons: Courage and dignity

Jeff MacGregor, ESPN.com

The heroes of a childhood -- Muhammad Ali, Dr. Martin Luther King, John Coltrane and more -- live on in the memory of an adult as Black History Month comes alive.

Story | Conversation | February 1, 2010

Black History Month

Welcome to SportsNation! On Monday, ESPN senior writer Jeff MacGregor stops by to chat about the launch of Black History Month. MacGregor is a senior writer...

Chat | January 29, 2010

Brett Favre, QB of La Mancha

Jeff MacGregor, ESPN.com

Brett Favre's journey to the Super Bowl was an impossible dream after all, thanks to another inevitable interception by the mad, idealistic knight. Still, his bravery in doing it is inevitable and commendable.

Story | Conversation | January 25, 2010

A glimpse of failed future video games

Jeff MacGregor

Worst-Selling Video Games, Summer 2012: 1. "World of Woodcraft III": In an ancient time of Warriors, Evil Wizards and Deep Magic, you're stuck in sho...

Blog Entry | Conversation | January 20, 2010

Guest chat: Ask The Ol' Perfessor™

Jeff MacGregor, ESPN.com

Hop "The Ol' Perfessor" Poteat, one of America's great sports thinkers, historians and pop philosophers, finds Mark McGwire, Lane Kiffin and others lacking.

Story | Conversation | January 19, 2010

Search for good in sports isn't objective

Jeff MacGregor, ESPN.com

Hall of Fame voting, figure skating judges and preseason polls and run counter to what we love best about sports: the objective knowledge of winners and losers as determined by play on the field.

Story | Conversation | January 11, 2010

Coach's office or bully pulpit?

Jeff MacGregor, ESPN.com

We used to salute our college football coaches as if they were my-way-or-the-highway generals with a free hand to raise our children right. But the Mike Leach and Mark Mangino cases raise questions about the free hand becoming an iron fist.

Story | Conversation | January 4, 2010

Meyer tops even Favre's indecision

Jeff MacGregor, ESPN.com

Urban Meyer's handling of his on-again, off-again retirement/leave of absence/ sabbatical/wanderjahr was like something out of a screwball comedy, writes Jeff MacGregor.

Story | Conversation | December 28, 2009

So long, farewell to some NFL stars

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Page 2 remembers some of its favorite NFL figures who called it a career in 2009.

Story | Conversation | December 22, 2009

Bigger isn't better for Big Ten

Jeff MacGregor, ESPN.com

Big Ten expansion is a mistake. It would dilute traditions, and it mirrors the failed assumption that bigger is better in today's America, Jeff MacGregor writes.

Story | Conversation | December 18, 2009

This Sporting Life: The Terrible Twos

Jeff MacGregor, ESPN.com

Two years after the release of the Mitchell report, we have to wonder what, if anything, it accomplished.

Story | Conversation | December 11, 2009

Michael Vick, Uninteresting American

Jeff MacGregor, ESPN.com

Here's the question about Michael Vick's return to Atlanta this weekend. Is there enough room in the national zeitgeist for both Vick and Tiger?

Story | Conversation | December 4, 2009

The lady or the Tiger?

Jeff MacGregor

The Tiger Woods story is likely to play out for the next few days as a high-def opera bouffe, as farce -- as a sort of heartbreaking tabloid slapstick...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 29, 2009

The Page 2 Thanksgiving dinner draft

Page 2 staff

Page 2 brings sports and Thanksgiving together in the best way possible -- by holding a mock draft for our holiday feast.

Story | Conversation | November 25, 2009