I admit that I almost feel for the Ricketts family, owners of the Chicago Cubs. They bought the Cubs thinking that it was just real life fantasy baseball, where they could be their own GMs, perhaps bring a title to the North Side after 106 years, and make a tidy profit in the process. Unfortunately, […]

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If the NCAA didn’t have enough problems, the scandal that first arose from a report about the University of North Carolina athletes being unable to read and being kept eligible through tutors and “classes” that athletes never had to attend, just write papers that the tutors actually wrote. A report was published today that the […]

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Well, we have the final two teams remaining in the NFL who will play on February 1 in the Super Bowl from Glendale, Arizona. The two games couldn’t have been much different. The Packers led the NFC title game against the Seahawks for 58 minutes in which time, Seahawk QB Russell Wilson threw 5 picks […]

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Sportswriters make lousy front office officials. Like fans, they tend to think with their hearts, not their brains. Or, more cynically, they write with what will be the best story or most profitable, not necessarily what is best for the team. Plus, other than access to the players/managers/coaches and owners, journalists’ opinions are generally not […]

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With football, both college and pro, winding down, if you are a fan of a team who will not be vying for a championship, you really have three options: first, you can ignore the playoffs entirely, or second; you can watch just for the sport; or three you can have a rooting interest, either motivated […]

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As I wrote above, the professional playoffs aren’t the only things where a fan whose team is not playing can question who to root for. On the college level, I was torn by the Alabama – Ohio State playoff game: are there two sleazier successful NCAA head coaches than Nick Saban and Urban Meyer? Much […]

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One of the biggest problems with college sports is the attitude by athletic departments, university senior officials, the local police and prosecutors, and sometimes even the student body that the football or basketball teams need to be protected when members do or are alleged of doing despicable things. It was this attitude that led to […]

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