As I was posting the Johnny Manziel story, I checked the news online and found a breaking story: apparently the National Football League has reached a settlement with retired players who accused the league of deliberately concealing the dangers of head trauma. The class-action lawsuit alleged the league didn’t do enough to warn players that […]

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Despite a rigorous grilling of six hours (which either involved whips or was as “rigorous” as Monty Python’s Comfy Chair from the “Spanish Inquisition” sketch), the NCAA decided that even though there was a videotape of Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel signing helmets, they couldn’t prove he took any money. So, the organization and Texas […]

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As I’ve written here numerous times, the relationship between a sports team, especially its owner(s) involves a tacit agreement with the team’s fans. As an owner, you put the best team on the field/ice/court and in return, the fans should support the team with money in the form of tickets sold, merchandise purchased, etc. Both […]

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I had heard rumblings for years that Bobby Riggs has thrown his match against Billie Jean King, but ESPN has been reporting some new information. Hal Shaw, now 79, was one of the golf pros at the Palma Ceia Golf and Country Club in Tampa, Fla., a mob-connected (owned?) golf club in the 1970s. He […]

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There was one more story that merited comment while I was away, the Johnny Manziel autograph flap. For those of you who missed it, the Texas A&M quarterback and reigning Heisman Trophy winner allegedly signing memorabilia in exchange for a five-figure flat fee while he was in Miami for last season’s BCS title game. This […]

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Much like the NCAA, there is a certain hypocrisy to being a news broadcasting entity like ESPN reporting controversial information on a league that you broadcast. Eventually, the league is going to tell you to back off, and you’re going to do it. The latest instance was reported in The New York Times this week. […]

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I’ve been away for awhile and haven’t had the opportunity to write about some of the important stories that have occurred while I’ve been gone, but it is long past time to deal with them now. Major League Baseball threw the book at several players implicated in the Biogenesis/PED scandal, with the biggest suspension being […]

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