In my last blog article I expressed my frustration with the handling of the New Orleans Saint’s Bounty Scandal. The process seemed to be entirely drawn out and over publicized in newspapers, internet, and ESPN. I was also frustrated with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Does anyone care about the NHL lockout? Remember last year when the NFL lockout and the NBA lockout was plastered all over sports news every single day? I mean NFL fans were freaking out just because the refs were locked […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What is to be expected when faced with doing “it” for the first time – for real? Sure there has been some preparation. The marathon film studying. The hours spent at home practicing alone to master technique. The past […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The mistakes have been hard to ignore. There was the botched coin toss at the Hall of Fame Game. The holding call during the Giants-Jaguars game, which sounds like a normal call, until you find out it was on the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last November Major League Baseball (MLB) announced its new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) which ensures the sport will have more than 20 years without a single labor stoppage. Sports fans across the country, still bitter from the debacle that was […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you haven’t heard by now, Ryan Braun recently became the first MLB player to successfully appeal a suspension for Performance-Enhancing Drug (PED) use. Now Braun can take the field and try to put his tumultuous winter behind him and mend […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Science is finally making some headway in figuring out what concussions do to people over a lifetime. Among the major professional sports, this problem has been particularly present in the NFL, where studies now show that at least 60% of former players had one […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Early in my sports writing career, I was talking to a former high school assistant coach about the firing of a basketball team’s head coach that happened two years prior. The coach had just led his team to a state […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It is time for the players of the NBA to stop talking, stop ‘making a stand’ and take what the owners are offering, which currently stands at a 50/50 split of revenue. At the end of the day the fans […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…