Headlines for November, 2004

Giving Thanks to the Sports World

ADVERTISEMENT <a href="http://media.fastclick.net/w/click.here?sid=16506&m=3&pageid=1" target="_top"><img width=120 height= 600 src="http://media.fastclick.net/w/get.media?sid=16506&m=3&tp=3&d=s&v=1.0c&pageid=1" border=0 align=right></a> Let's face it, sports fans, it's been an ugly couple of weeks. Ron Artest goes after a heckler like a bull running free in the streets of Pamplona, Clemson and South Carolina follow suit and overshadow the final game of Lou Holtz's coaching career, Latrell Sprewell is having trouble feeding his family on [read more...]

Hart Surgery: Four Down Territory

Ok, I covered wrestling a couple weeks ago (and I apologize for no column last week - I was shocked to find out people actually noticed). Now its time to discuss the only real subject that matters at this time of year (aside from Lehigh women's lacrosse): football, football, football. There are a few topics I would like to cover today, so let's do [read more...]

NFL Hypocrisy Not Too Sexy

Blips, Blurbs & Blasts ADVERTISEMENT <a href="http://media.fastclick.net/w/click.here?sid=16506&m=3&pageid=1" target="_top"><img width=120 height= 600 src="http://media.fastclick.net/w/get.media?sid=16506&m=3&tp=3&d=s&v=1.0c&pageid=1" border=0 align=right></a> Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney is up-in-arms about a soaking wet, sexually-charged, towel-tossing Nicollette Sheridan seducing Terrell Owens on the lead-in to Monday Night Football, and quite frankly, I agree with him. The NFL supposedly wants its premier weekly broadcast to be suitable for the whole family, [read more...]

Sosa to Mets, Green out of L.A., and Martinez in Yankee Stripes? Better Bring Your Motion Sickness Pills

Ah, the off-season. The parades are over; the glory of the postseason has passed its expiration date for all but Red Sox fans. Stadiums are quiet and players are enjoying some downtime, while owners and GM's waltz around each other in carefully choreographed dances. And we fans are left to the vagaries of the press, specifically the rumor mill. With hot stoves [read more...]

Guerrero is Deserving of MVP

I think he deserves it, despite the fact that he is only of many players to have a very good season in a year when perhaps no one player really stood out. We could just check with Bill James and see who had the most "Win Shares," his composite stat that takes all phases of the game into account: Gary Shefield [read more...]

A Concealed Legacy

Ken Caminiti has been dead for just over a month. Drugs. To many, he is another junky in the ground. The undeserved privileged. He abused social drugs while a ball-player, admitted to winning the 1996 MVP trophy with the aid of steroids, and continued his spiral to the grave the second he no longer had baseball to distract him. Caminiti [read more...]

Ron Artest Rapped in Mystery

Yogi was so wrong. If ninety percent of the game is mental, the other half isn't physical. It's music, err, rap. Ron Artest was already a walking caricature. We knew he was out of focus. Now we know the world he lives in must be just as out of focus to him. The enigmatic ballplayer…excuse me, ballplayer/aspiring music mogul has officially [read more...]

10 Things Not Involving the O.C.

If the sports world were like television, this past fortnight would have been sweeps week. Baseball just awarded the curse-ridden Boston Red Sox their first World Series title since the days of the Ford Model T, another parity-crazed NFL campaign is reaching its midpoint, and the NBA tipped off this week with Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal on opposite coasts. Couple [read more...]

Hart Surgery: Grappling With Wrestling

Last year when I started at Lehigh, I wrote about how I was faced with sports I knew nothing about. Of those (field hockey, lacrosse, and wrestling to be exact), I figured I could get the gist of the two ball-and-stick sports, but that wrestling would be a chore. In retrospect, it played out just about as I had pictured. Lacrosse was fairly easy to [read more...]

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