Headlines for February, 2007

The Monkey Has Landed

In Print - February 27, 2007 | View Print Version (PDF)When Peyton Manning finally skinned and ate that can't-win-the-big-one orangutan on his back on Super Bowl Sunday, he not only validated his entire football career, he also left behind a serious "leadership" vacuum. With Peyton and Phil Mickelson both winning championships in recent years, sports has lost its two go-to [read more...]

Baseball Season in Chicago

In Print - February 27, 2007 | View Print Version (PDF)The weather is warming-winter is thwarted Pitchers and catchers have already reported The smile is back, our faces are cheezin' All around the land, it is baseball season For those of us in the Windy City The coming of baseball is always so pretty With a team for the North Side and the South Side each The [read more...]

Bending the Rules

In print - February 27, 2007 | View Print Version (PDF) One of the fundamentals of sport is fairness. The games we play and watch must operate with consistent rules and structure, otherwise we have little reason to trust what happens on the field. We want the rulebook to be unfailingly adhered to, we demand that officials and caretakers be free [read more...]

World Wide Leader / Entertainer

In some corners, it's now derisively known as the "BooYah Network."They speak, of course, of ESPN, the World Wide Leader, or WWL, the global sports empire that's worked assiduously to blur the lines between journalism and entertainment. Sadly, they're doing a helluva job. Since its founding in 1979, ESPN has devolved from a legitimate sports news outlet into a sprawling conglomerate whose compromised [read more...]

Defying the Odds

Look at the Cardinals and the Colts. Our last two major sport champs.The circumstances are eerily comparable - both teams appeared dead in the water late in the regular season only to completely change their persona once the postseason began. Both are helmed by a coach with a reputation for coming up small when the stakes are raised despite tons [read more...]

All-Star Snooze

It's "All-Star Season" in pro sports, with three of the four major pro sports all star games taking place in the course of a month. Which, for a sports fan, is awesome.At least in theory. On Sunday, the NBA played a 280-point basketball game that was barely watchable and an utter blowout. Two weeks prior, the NFL played an equally high-scoring [read more...]

To Dunk is Divine

Photo By Larry W. Smith-US PRESSWIRE In Print - February 20, 2007 | View Print Version (PDF) Every year, they'll try and tell you that the dunk contest is back. The lead-up may have been pitiful, with the league carefully gauging who won't reject their advances. And at some point, the absence of LeBron, Kobe and Vince will grab the public's attention. [read more...]

Advance Copies

As the starting third baseman for the most well-known franchise in the world, the team that annually leads the league in spending, and the owner of the richest contract in sports history, it's only natural that Alex Rodriguez's first foray into children's literature would focus on an underdog overcoming extraordinary odds.Out of the Ballpark follows a young boy named Alex [read more...]

Exploitation

Bulls fans, you're just past the halfway point of the NBA season, and it's time to get serious. Serious about the playoffs. As has been well documented, the Bulls have not won a playoff series since the days of Dickey Simpkins and Rusty LaRue. The time has come, but it won't be easy.That is why our team of advance scouts [read more...]

Should There Be Outrage at the NFL Over Steroids?

In this the "Steroids Era" of sport, you may have noticed a curious phenomenon: the NFL has been spared most of the outrage.Baseball certainly has its share. There's the constant fretting over Barry Bonds' moral standing, there's Mark McGwire and his paltry Hall-of-Fame support, there are the congressional hearings, there's the furor created by BALCO and the best-selling Game [read more...]

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