Headlines for May, 2004

NCAA’s Gambling Study Actually Shows that Gambling is Not a Problem

A new study emerged yesterday saying 35 percent of male and 10 percent of female collegiate athletes have gambled on sports. 1.1 percent of football players admitted taking money to perform poorly and try and affect the outcome of games, and 2.3 percent of football players actually acknowledged that they’d been asked to do that. In a related story, 100 percent [read more...]

Hart Surgery: End of the Lake Show?

Most of the time, the sports world is a continuous spectacle. Season bleeds into season, sport merges with sport, and rarely does anything really stand out. Occasionally, an event will transcend like the Olympics, or a heavily anticipated title fight - but rarely does it involve a major sport. I would argue, however, that Game 5 Thursday night between the Lakers and Spurs is such [read more...]

In Defense of Lord Stanley…

I don't usually read Mike Downey of the Chicago Tribune because he is a carpetbagger. He was a Chicago sportswriter many years ago, and now, has returned to Chicago from Los Angeles spouting opinions. Usually, I feel much better about Chicago writers staying in Chicago, not going out to LaLa Land where the biggest sports story usually is whether the [read more...]

Don’t Yell at Larry Brown, Pat Lawrence Frank on the Back

Sports are a lingering remnant of a true caste system, at every level. And no Marxist theory or current crying games will quell that truth.The NBA takes the stage. This is a league where millionaire rookies are still seen unwillingly walking through hotel lobbies in gowns, or with their Armani suit legs cut off. Not because they want to look [read more...]

Euphemisms, Geniuses & Moneyball – All a Sport

Cold War era reporters, touring the Soviet Union, used to joke about how they would never be allowed to photograph touted new buildings and projects that were “Under renovation." This phrase, they simply understood, was a loose euphemism for, “Made from twigs and empty bottles of vodka.”What are Pirates fans to think then, when their team is perpetually “Building for [read more...]

MLB, Spider-Man Deal: Going Several Steps Too Far

How much money do baseball owners need? And how long will it be before the players look to get some of that money?That was my initial reaction to the announcement that as part of a marketing alliance between Major League Baseball Properties, Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios, webbed logos of the upcoming film "Spider-Man 2" will appear on bases [read more...]

And The Winner of the 2003-2004 M.L. Carr Award Is….

The NBA has announced that Kevin Garnett has (deservingly) won the Most Valuable Player Award, which means that it is time to announce the other side of the coin, the M.L. Carr Award for the player most deserving of being hit by a bus. The Most Hated Player Award goes to the player who has shown the worst behavior, on [read more...]

Derek Jeter’s Slide Makes His Accomplishments More Meaningful

Do you want to know what the biggest story in sports was last week? Well, I'll give you a hint. It had nothing to do with Eli Manning. Rene Gonzalez and his diatribe against Pat Tillman? Not that either. No, the biggest sports story from last week was a number. .0000118. That's right. 118 times, out of 10 million tries. Just 1.18 one-thousandths of [read more...]

American Sports: Infatuated With First

Some day someone will put windows on bathroom stalls. Perhaps it's already happened, and I'm simply not hanging out at all the "right places."Somebody already has created a beer minus alcohol. I'd like to let that man market his product to a party of disgruntled Vikings back from an unprofitable pillaging. We live in a society where urine poured over a crucifix [read more...]

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