One would think that an sports television personality would learn from another talking head from the same network who gets in trouble for too much free speech. One week after ESPN suspended Stephen A. Smith for commenting that women should try not to antagonize men so tat they don’t get beaten, fellow ESPN commentator Dan […]

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As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, the NCAA Division I Board of Directors met this week to vote on a new governance structure for the “Power 5” conferences. Those conferences, the Big Ten, ACC, SEC, Pac-12 and Big 12 have felt hamstrung by the smaller schools that make up the 351 member NCAA. […]

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There was a very good story on HBO’s “Real Sports” talking about the decline in golf and some of the extreme measures that certain golf movers and shakers are willing to initiate to save the game. A story on CNN Money highlights the problems and suggests reasons that this is happening. First, the evidence: Adidas, […]

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I admit that I am getting tired of super rich white men trying to either hoist their deluded notions of the world on the rest of us, or, like I believe is the case with Ann Coulter, are using their insane comments to earn money from very dumb people. But, the press tour that Washington […]

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The reigning NBA Champion San Antonio Spurs have this reputation for being a class organization. They have a class coach who doesn’t always go along with the (NBA) party line. Gregg Popovich has benched his starters in meaningless games, is a provocative interview, and will ignore or belittle an interviewer with a dumb question. Tim […]

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There is hardly any sports fan that hasn’t seen the gruesome leg injury suffered by Indiana Pacers guard Paul George while playing for Team USA in preparation for the World Championships. It ranks right up there with Joe Theisman’s broken leg and Robin Ventura’s ankle break for severity and gross out from the television footage […]

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The Green Bay Packers announced that they will induct quarterback Brett Favre into the team Hall of Fame and retire his No. 4 jersey. Reportedly, the Hall of Fame induction will occur in 2015, and the uniform-retirement ceremony also will happen in a future year, not 2014. As a fan, I can understand holding a […]

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