Occasionally, I frequent the cafeteria in the building in which I work. The food is alright and the prices used to be reasonable (but as prices have increased, my use of the facility has declined). Anyway, this story is about one of the women that work in the cafeteria, or more directly, about her grandson. […]

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I am no longer a Cub fan, but I didn’t add them to the “hate” bunch at the top of this site because I wouldn’t truly mind if the Cubs won something after 100 years. There are probably few people outside of baseball who are happier to see the beginning of baseball than myself (not […]

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There has been much written publicly and commented on in the media that Congress has much more important business than investigating sports leagues for performance enhancing drugs; and they’re right. But, there are two situations in which the sports owners and unions should find other, more useful ways of spending their time. First, there is […]

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Baseball season begins in just a few days, but just as it has hung over the sport for the past several years, the 600-pound gorilla known as the steroid controversy won’t let opening day pass quietly. First, a group of U.S. House of Representative Republicans released a 109-page report basically stating that Roger Clemens did […]

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This was another case of what you said is alright, but the time and place could have been a bit better. Last month, Dana Jacobson, a co-host of “First Take” on ESPN2, served a one-week suspension as a result of her behavior at a Jan. 11 roast for ESPN Radio personalities Mike Greenberg and Mike […]

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As this is written, Roger Clemens is testifying before Congress over alleged human growth hormone use. Clemens has denied all of the charges since they became public in former Senator George Mitchell’s report to baseball on performance enhancing drug use in the sport in the 1980s and 1990s. Clemens’ former trainer Roger McNamee says that […]

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