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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One of the criticism people (including me) have for Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is the blind eye they turned on PED use, especially in the years after labor strife caused the cancellation of an entire season. Desperate to get fannies back in seats, the owners and the league were happy to see steroid laden mammoths […]

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It appears that the wings of change are blowing through big time college football. Some of these winds may be a typhoon. Big conferences are discussing paying stipends to athletes, and that and other issues have the big conferences like the Big 12 and Big Ten threatening to break from the NCAA, or at least […]

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That is the common refrain of the career criminal and most kids – I’ve got the game figured out; I can do what I want and get away with it. Of course, most of these people do eventually get caught (or killed in the case of criminals). However, most people grow up and out of […]

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