I know that the World Baseball Classic was intended as a showcase for the sport around the world now that baseball has been dropped as an Olympic sport, but it really is an incredible waste of time despite what MLB Commissioner Bud Selig says. First, it comes during spring training, when players are trying to […]

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No one in all of football should be surprised that Terrell Owens was a no-show yesterday for the start of the Bills voluntary offseason conditioning program. Interestingly, the people who are laughing it off now are the players and coaches. Sports Illustrated.com quoted new Bills center Geoff Hangartner: “I’m really excited about meeting the guy. […]

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Shooting from the hip on so many different things: • I never met Natasha Richardson, and know of her only on film, but I did bump (literally) into Liam Neeson at the premiere of a film he was in, “Breakfast on Pluto” at the Toronto International Film Festival several years ago, and he was a […]

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It is surprising that NHL general managers, many of whom are former players themselves, are trying to eliminated or reduce fighting. They should know better, and the game of hockey includes fighting. The GM’s are recommending a rule change that would give a 10-minute misconduct penalty to players who fight immediately after a faceoff. In […]

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There is little happy news in the papers these days, especially when discussing someone losing their job, but in the case of a loudmouthed, “me-first” athlete who underperformed and creates chaos for every team that he plays for, it is a nice story. A couple of months after jettisoning Adam “formerly known as Pac-Man” Jones, […]

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I have been busy at work, so much so that I have just gotten around to putting these few, inadequate words together. I was, like most people, shocked when I heard of the deaths of Chicago Bulls legends Johnny “Red” Kerr and Norm Van Lier. Perhaps I wasn’t as shocked by Mr. Kerr’s death since […]

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Hurray for The Tennis Channel. The network has canceled plans to broadcast the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships because Shahar Peer, the 45th-ranked women’s player according to the World Tennis Association from Israel, was denied a visa by the United Arab Emirates. The channel’s web site posted the following notice: “Tennis Channel recognizes that this exclusion […]

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