I’m sure that NHL Commissioner Gary “The Count” Bettman is breathing a sign of relief today along with the entire Chicago Blackhawks front office. After a week where he scored 4 goals and had 5 assists, Patrick Kane was named the number one star of the week. Kane has been under a huge cloud amid […]

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Everything is for sale. Body parts, relatives, integrity, nothing matters in this world except for the almighty dollar. Even patriotism, which could mean anything from general love of country to a “love or leave it” kind of unthinking slavish devotion. As it turns out, the Pentagon has been funding many of the tributes to service […]

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Last night, 22,000 fans watched as Chicago Blackhawks star Patrick Kane continued his torrid scoring pace, tying the score at 2 against the Los Angeles Kings early in the third period by taking the puck and while the Hawks changed lines in really a one-on three break, ripped a rocket shot that whizzed past All […]

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Football is the sport for the unbridled id – instinct to run, block, hit the “enemy” – the members of the other team. Football is discussed in terms of war: the bomb, territory, among others. I think it is this constant contact and aggression in practice and during games that helps to explain football players […]

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I have to give it to ESPN’s Outside The Lines – they do a very good job of investigative reporting despite the inherent conflict of interest in investigating teams and sports that the network pays billions of dollars to broadcast. The latest involves the University of Louisville, the haven of Coach Rick Pitino, he of […]

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Life has kept me from the site, gentle reader, so I appreciate your patience. But I am back, and while I was gone, I was going to write a piece on the explosion of fantasy sports websites and their almost complete domination of the airwaves through commercials on sports stations and even regular programming. Fan […]

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For a few years now, the “business model” that has made billions of dollars on the backs of unpaid “student athletes” has been crumbling. The head injury settlement; the ongoing courtroom fight over paying players like employees; the big conferences being allows to break slightly from the rest of the NCAA in adding stipend money […]

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