Headlines for October, 2004

Hart Surgery: Three Things That Made Me Mad About The World Series

Congratulations to the Red Sox. They beat the Cardinals fair and square, and pretty much manhandled them in every facet of the game during the World Series. As a Cardinals fan, I know I should be gracious in defeat. But really, where is the fun in that? So this week I bring you… Three Things That Made Me Mad About…The World Series 1. The base [read more...]

Boston Nears Sweep With Memories Fresh

In Monty Python's Holy Grail, one memorable scene unfolds as a man drags a cart down the street, as it overflows with those dead from the plague. He cries out, "Bring out your dead," as he drags on. At this point, one seemingly dead old man is placed on the cart, only to lament quietly, "But I'm not dead yet..." "Well, [read more...]

Red Sox vs Cardinals: 1967 Revisited

The 2004 World Series is a rematch of the 1967 classic in which the Cardinals defeated the Red Sox in seven games. The '67 series pitted a 101-win St. Louis team against a Boston squad that pulled one of the great all-time surprises in winning the AL pennant. They had finished ninth the year before, and in the days before [read more...]

Red Sox’s Feat: “As far back as I can remember…”

In the world of sports, when a great feat is accomplished, sometimes it takes a while for everything to set in and for people to gain a full appreciation for what just transpired. Sportswriters need to bang out their columns, historians need to make their comparisons, and barflies need to knock back a few pints and engage in heated debates [read more...]

The Handshake Heard ‘Round the World … Thanks to the Cardinals’ Walker

The post-season is a time like no other, when excitement fills the air and fans are glued to their seats. We've become used to stunning comebacks, epic struggles, and heroic performances. We've heard all the stories from our parents and passed them on to our children. Some of the tales have reached legendary proportion -- from the scandal of the 1919 [read more...]

Boston’s Torture

Can you think of a better way to torture a Red Sox fan than what the Yankees are now doing? A four-game sweep, as New York clearly could have done, would be embarrassing for the Red Sox, shocking and disappointing. But it would hardly be torture. It would be more like going down in a plane crash. Yes, there's that brief [read more...]

Hart Surgery: Yankee Doodle Devilry

Have you ever wondered if it were possible to script actual sporting events? Like aside from the WWE? If you could, I'm not sure you could do much better than what these baseball playoffs have provided so far. Have you ever watched those animal programs on the Discovery Channel, where a somber British voice describes how a pack of lions or [read more...]

Battling Online Gambling a Fight Set for Failure

David Carruthers is trying to push an elephant up a flight of stairs. Just ask him. In a season of politics, his metaphor really has no political allusions, and speaks more to the weight he bears as an industry leader in an evolving and controversial marketplace. Nonetheless, for the CEO of BETonSPORTS plc, the need to change the face o fhis [read more...]

Sympathy for the Red Sox

Let me begin by saying that I have absolutely no attachment to the city of Boston, or for that matter, the entire northeastern section of the country altogether. I have visited twice, and although I enjoyed my walk on the Harvard campus and feasted on a prosciutto-and-mozzarella sandwich along Beacon Hill that was out of this world, I could never [read more...]

Hart Surgery: Master Debaters With A Vengeance

(Note: As before, Tom's remarks are in italics) You know how Republicans (or I guess, more fairly, conservatives) always complain about a liberal bias in the media? Well, I want to complain about the bias towards coaches in the sports media. Think about it. How often do you ever hear coaches criticized in the mainstream? Now, I am not advocating the [read more...]

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