Headlines for October, 2005

Kenny Williams: Try, Try Again

Kenny Williams deserves praise for building the 2005 White Sox. But let's not forget that until quite recently, following a string of bad deals, he was thought by many to be "in over his head" as the GM of a Major League team. Perhaps Williams got better at his job - players get better, why can't GMs? But whatever the [read more...]

Hart Surgery: The World’s Meanest Man

When I was growing up and didn't know any better, I used to get scared all the time by things I saw on television. Once I couldn't sleep for a week after I saw a made-for-TV movie about the Viceroy gang; I was certain they were going to come to my house and hurt me. Another time, I saw a TV [read more...]

Hart Surgery: Long(Horn) Suffering

Five years ago, as I left what to that point was the most miserable sporting event I'd ever been to (Texas-OU), I made a statement to my friends: "As long as Mack Brown is on one sideline and Bob Stoops is patrolling the other," I began, "We will never beat Oklahoma." That day we had come into the game undefeated like OU, [read more...]

Anybody But Tony G.

Tony Graffanino embodies one of the beautiful things about the game of baseball. Just like your girlfriend constantly reminds you, size doesn't matter. In order to play professional basketball, let's face it, you have to be tall. I know diminutive gems like Spud Webb and Earl Boykins come along every now and then and give hope to the vertically-challenged hoopsters out [read more...]

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