Headlines for July, 2004

Ricky Williams: No More Games

ADVERTISEMENT <a href="http://media.fastclick.net/w/click.here?sid=16506&m=8&c=1" target="_top"><img src="http://media.fastclick.net/w/get.media?sid=16506&m=8&tp=10&d=s&c=1"<br>width=300 height=600 border=1></a> Can someone be a sports hero for having the courage not to play? This is the question being posed by Ricky Williams, the iconoclastic NFL All-Pro running back who retired from the Miami Dolphins this past weekend. Williams is 27-years old, injury-free, and at the height of his football and earning powers. But such reasons [read more...]

Loyalty A Dying Notion In Today’s Game; Take Johnson and the Diamondbacks, For Example

For the last few weeks, all the buzz in baseball has been centered around Randy Johnson. Is he leaving Arizona? If so, where is he headed? With the trade deadline just hours away, it seems one place he won't be going is New York. As much as the Yankees have been salivating over the 6' 10" lefthander, it seems likely that they don't have [read more...]

Let Ricky Williams Be Ricky Williams

Ricky Williams stunned the world of professional football this week by announcing his retirement after just five seasons. He had fame. He had fortune. He had legions of adoring fans. Strange as it might sound to all of us, Williams wanted nothing to do with any of it. That Janet Leigh-like shriek you heard the other day was probably a neighbor [read more...]

Mike Tyson’s Magnetism Draws Us In

Would Van Gogh be quite as marketable if sanity had spared him an ear? Mike Tyson can answer that. He is, after all, an expert in their removal. If crazy were a diving competition, Mike Tyson would be the 100-meter springboard champion. A dive from one-hundred meters? I'd pay to watch that. And so we will with Tyson; in the ring, off the [read more...]

Blame it on the Rain (or, the Curious Case of Ricky Williams)

As the resident sports nerd of my group of friends, whenever something major goes down (particularly when it relates to the University of Texas) inexorably I will be pressed for an opinion. It's almost as if I am a White House spokesperson. So Saturday night, when my cell began blowing up like the Godfather around 1:00 am, I knew something was up. And that [read more...]

Stupid Is As Stupid Does?

ADVERTISEMENT Often I read dumb things written by other sportswriters or hear dumb things said by sports people on television, and sometimes, the comments are amusing, or just mistakes. However, I don't usually respond to these comments. For one thing, if I replied to everything that I objected to in the news media, I'd never have time to do anything else. Every [read more...]

STEPS FOR HECKLING SUCCESS

ADVERTISEMENT <a href="http://media.fastclick.net/w/click.here?sid=16506&m=8&c=1" target="_top"><img src="http://media.fastclick.net/w/get.media?sid=16506&m=8&tp=10&d=s&c=1"<br>width=300 height=600 border=1></a> Fantasy baseball is not merely won and lost on the computer. When facing a prominent team or playing for a divisional championship, certain options need to be contemplated to give your team the best chance to win. One of these options is physically going to the ballpark and participating in the heckling of your [read more...]

Tour de France: The Clouds Will Never Break, Especially Those Over Armstrong

We should be marveling at the athletic achievement of Lance Armstrong. By Sunday, barring an unforeseen catastrophe, Armstrong should win an unprecedented sixth straight Tour de France.We all know the story: "Cyclist survives cancer treatment to become the most dominant athlete in the most grueling event perhaps in all of sport." But I can't help but feel the clouds of [read more...]

Hart Surgery: Tour de Lance

Sunday afternoon, Lance Armstrong is going to accomplish something never before done in the sport of cycling. With the mountains behind him and basically only Paris on the horizon, Armstrong is set to join a select group of athletes who have staked nearly irrefutable claims as the best of all time at their discipline. So how come no one seems [read more...]

To Buy or Not To Buy? That is the Question for Owners and GM’s

BaseballOutsider.com ADVERTISEMENT The trading deadline looms and owners and GM's are faced with the age old dilemma of whether to become buyers or sellers. Actually, the dilemma only presents itself to a handful of teams. Those fortunate enough to be leading their respective divisions by a comfortable margin needn't worry and those who have already fallen far off the pace [read more...]

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