Headlines for March, 2007

Fluffy Daydreams Are No Match For Bitter Truth

In Print - Mar. 27, 2007 | VIEW PRINT VERSION (PDF)As a self-proclaimed "Fantasy Baseball Expert," I used to meet this time of year with a bit of trepidation. It seemed like everyone I ever knew was crawling out from whatever rock they had been hiding under to ask for my expert advice. "Who should I target as sleepers, Rick?" "Which unknown [read more...]

Top Tracks: MLB 2007

In Print - March 27, 2007 | VIEW PRINT VERSION (PDF)Baseball season is the longest regular season in pro sports, by a huge margin. Accordingly, curmudgeonly, navel-gazing old baseball writers like George Will compare the baseball season to a novel -- and not a good beach-read Carl Hiaasen novel, either, but one of those cinderblock-sized Gore Vidal numbers. The comparison would [read more...]

Up to Speed

In Print - Mar. 27, 2007| View Print VersionI watched a little "Hogan Knows Best" this weekend. A quick aside, before I get to the point: the Hogan family is one of the more adjusted, friendly, loving families that you are going to see on TV. They have a weird, unusual existence, to be sure, and the Hulkster-as-the-patriarch approach is an [read more...]

Return to Black Planet

In Print - March 20, 2007 | View Print Version (PDF)In 1995, University of Washington professor David Shields took a year off to cover the Sonics. The plan had been to write a book about the team's season from an insider's perspective. But when the organization got cold feet, Shields ended up a radical outsider: banned from the locker room, [read more...]

A (Slim) Way Out

In Print - March 20, 2007 - Just Saying It's a little talked about truth of major league baseball, but Cleveland Indians ACE C.C Sabathia started the discussion last week. "There aren't very many African-American players. I go back home to Vallejo (California) and the kids say, 'What's baseball?' It's not just an issue for my hometown, it's an issue for [read more...]

‘07 Mavs Worthy of The ‘96 Bulls?*

In Print - March 20, 2007 | VIEW PRINT VERSION (PDF) Last December, the nostalgia-fest channel TV Land ran a special counting down the Top 100 catch phrases in television history. "Heeere's Johnny!" was number one, "One small step for man…" number two. And number three -- the alleged third most famous catchphrase in all of TV -- was Donald Trump's [read more...]

The Anti-Jordans?

In Print - March 20, 2007 | View Print Version (PDF)There's a scene in Spike Lee's contemporary classic Do the Right Thing in which the character "Buggin' Out" is bumped by a passerby, who then tramples and muddies his cherished Air Jordans. After Buggin' Out's friends ooh and ah over the gravity of the affront, he takes off down the sidewalk [read more...]

Last At Bat: Blogging CSR

In Print - March 13, 2007 | View Print Version (PDF) "The CSR has a blog!" we say. You don't react. "Complete with insightful commentary," we continue. "Wit, wisdom, musings, links, and everything else under the sun. Read it. Enjoy it. Comment on it. Pass it on." You are not (all that) impressed. There is an awkard pause. "Congratulations," you say. Sarcastically. Obviously. "Thank you," [read more...]

Unhappy Union

In Print - March 13, 2007 | In Print Version (PDF)Not long after Roger Goodell took over as NFL Commissioner, Bryant Gumbel, editorializing from the set of HBO's Real Sports, offered him this withering bit of advice: "Roger, before Paul Tagliabue cleans out his office, have him show you where he keeps Gene Upshaw's leash." Tagliabue, of course, is Goodell's predecessor, [read more...]

Your Constitutional Right to Baseball

In Print - March 13, 2007 | View Print Version (PDF) As a kid growing up in Spokane, Washington, I remember well when we got our first TV set. With rabbit ears and some well-placed aluminum foil, we could get one station clearly, one with what we called "snow," and the third local station not at all. On Saturdays during the [read more...]

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