As everyone knows, the Kansas City Royals ended a 30-year championship draught by winning the World Series over the weekend in five, very exciting, come from behind games, including 2 extra inning contests. I was working at the old Comiskey Park in the 1980s when the Royals were the class of the American League with […]

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As a relatively late Cub-hater (2000 or so), I could join the chorus of White Sox fans who are loving the 3-0 deficit in the NLCS, but I’m not. I used to root for both teams until the Cubs started scalping their own tickets and Cub fans, knowledgeable when I worked at Wrigley Field, became […]

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Frequently, a coaching change is made by a struggling team; sometimes, it works marvelously, like Joel Quennville’s hiring by the Chicago Blackhawks in October, 2008 which has led to 3 Stanley Cups. All too often however, the team is not very good to begin with and it remains so, or the coach is able to […]

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I have to give it to ESPN’s Outside The Lines – they do a very good job of investigative reporting despite the inherent conflict of interest in investigating teams and sports that the network pays billions of dollars to broadcast. The latest involves the University of Louisville, the haven of Coach Rick Pitino, he of […]

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As I have written before, having been fired once, I am very cautious in calling for a team’s coach to be fired. I remember the blow to self-esteem and self-worth as I tried to get another job. Of course, most coaches and players make many orders of magnitude more money than I do, so that […]

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Life has kept me from the site, gentle reader, so I appreciate your patience. But I am back, and while I was gone, I was going to write a piece on the explosion of fantasy sports websites and their almost complete domination of the airwaves through commercials on sports stations and even regular programming. Fan […]

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I think that I’ve cut Chicago Bulls’ guard Derrick Rose a ton of slack. We both grew up in impoverished Englewood (many years apart of course); and after a sterling start including an NBA MVP award, knee injuries have limited Rose’s playing time to a handful of games and limited the team’s chances at an […]

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