Over the past several months, there have been reports of the academic scandal at the University of North Carolina. A former tutor turned informer reporting that many athletes were illiterate, didn’t go to classes, or had work done for them. She was met with threats and derision. The NCAA investigated and couldn’t find anything. Now, […]

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With so many sports options, it seems that the World series isn’t the “must see” draw that it used to be. I remember sneaking a transistor radio in my school bag to check the scores from time to time, and listen on my walk home from school. Of course, I had a very high level […]

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I think that every boxer who feels that he has gotten robbed in a decision has either wanted to keep on fighting the judges and/or the referee. When I was watching boxing actively, I hated to watch the bad referees like Carlos Padilla. A good referee should be seen very little, letting the men fight […]

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For the past couple of weeks, there has been a lot of talk about the return of the NFL to Los Angeles. It was reported earlier this month that the NFL plans to move one or two teams to Los Angeles within the next two years. Los Angeles has not had an NFL team since […]

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CBS Sports is reporting that Florida State quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston will declare for the 2015 NFL Draft “no matter what happens in the second half of the season.” Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports reports (reported by SI.com) that Winston is not considering dropping out of FSU amid investigations into both […]

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Earlier this week, Sports Illustrated online published an except of a longer interview of soon retiring Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, asking the question “How we will we remember Bud Selig?” The article asked if we will remember him as the bumbling commissioner who oversaw a canceled World Series, the rise of the Steroids Era and […]

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Speaking of Florida State and young Mr. Winston, there was quite a long article in the New York Times on Sunday that detailed how the local police department handled FSU athletes very differently from other students and non-students. The article detailed a pattern that validates the lax investigation of criminal sexual assault charges against Jamaeis […]

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