Despite the Chicago Bears preparing to play in London, England Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, most of the talk this week has been on an incident caught by television cameras in last Sunday night’s game against Minnesota. Quarterback Jay Cutler was captured on camera saying “Tell (Mike Martz) I said (blank) him.” Of course, […]

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• Despite having a sour old man like Nolan Ryan running the team, it’s hard not to root for the Texas Rangers in the World Series. Of course, the franchise has never won a World Series, and they have a lot of good young, compelling players. Plus, they are playing the St. Louis Cardinals, who […]

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I know that coaches hate when the public or the media play “Monday Morning Quarterback” on their decisions. I usually question when the on-air announcers blast a coach, since they are often wrong. However, the announcers on the Ohio State-Illinois game last Saturday were absolutely right, and Illinois Head Coach Ron Zook once again proved […]

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I have to grudgingly admit that the Chicago cubs made a smarter move this week than their crosstown rivals, the White Sox. The White Sox hired former third baseman Robin Ventura to be their manager despite the fact that Ventura has never been a manager or coach on any level. The Cubs, however, appear to […]

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As a sports fan, you never want to root for injuries, and you certainly don’t want to wish anyone’s death. Even though we will all die, I would say that 99.9999% of sports fans don’t wish anyone’s death. And that is certainly the case for Oakland Raiders’ owner Al Davis, who died over the weekend […]

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With their backs to the collective wall, the NBA and the Players’ Union remained far apart in their attempt to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement over the weekend. Rumors of a 50/50 revenue split apparently didn’t exist, or wasn’t enough, and so, NBA Commissioner David Stern announced last night that the league was cancelling […]

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I have long advocated that one of the reasons that people like sports is that things are more “black and white” – if you win, you keep your job, if you don’t, win, out you go. Of course, it isn’t as serious since the people getting “fired” have been earning millions of dollars to win […]

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