Headlines for June, 2007

Summer Stakes to Feature Cream of Racing Crop

The long, hot summer should be especially hot when it comes to stakes races. That's because there are a plethora of stakes worth big bucks at tracks across the country.For instance, Belmont Park offers the $400,000 Grade 1 Suburban for 3-year-olds and up on June 30. Invasor, the 2006 Horse of the Year, hopes to become only the second thoroughbred [read more...]

Mark Kizla-Childs Walker: Of Gangstas and Spearchuckers, Sex and Zulus

Before Eric Clapton met Jimi Hendrix, he imagined blues musicians to be black, black men driving long, pink Cadillacs with their guitars in the back. He imagined that they drove from gig to gig on dusty roads always one step ahead of the police and scorned lovers. He imagined that the Cadillacs these black, black men drove smelled like sex.Then [read more...]

The Trials and Tribulations of Genarlow Wilson

When I read that Genarlow Wilson was not being released from prison, I began to cry.Wilson was a star in the classroom and a highly-regarded prep football player in Georgia who held Detroit Lions first-round draft choice Calvin Johnson to four receptions in two games. Most prominent in his box of football recruiting letters were the ones from the Ivies: [read more...]

Measuring Toughness in Sports - A Top Five List

Any sports fan knows that certain qualities are desirable in elite athletes. Characteristics such as speed, power, and agility are a few that stand out. Another trait associated with various sports is toughness. Being tough means different things to different individuals, but the idea that you need a certain level of fortitude to engage in sports is universal.Since there are [read more...]

Throw It Back

As Barry Bonds approaches the all-time home run record, what should be done during this historic moment has been much debated. I have heard solutions ranging from an asterisk next to the record to the slightly more drastic option of taking out Bonds before he breaks the record. I propose a response for the true baseball fan - throw it [read more...]

Michael Vick: If It Keeps On Rainin’ the Levee’s Gonna Break

On September 3, 2003, in a scene out of the Pablo Escobar story, IRS agents and local authorities flooded the ground around the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO) with bullet-proof vested SWAT agents and ducked behind cars like they were being fired on by South American coca security. In the air above, helicopters hovered like Japanese sci-fi prehistoric wasps. However, [read more...]

The Art of the Obnoxious Fan

Short of bad weather not much can ruin my time at a sporting event. Even if my favorite team loses, I still love the competition and the drama that always unfolds at any game. From soccer to baseball to basketball to football, live sporting events are almost always a great time.There is something that can ruin my experience, however… Or [read more...]

What Gary Sheffield Really Said

You know how you can tell when it's more important to kill the message a person is trying to get across, especially a black person, especially a black person talking about racism; especially a black person talking about racism who is generally disliked by the press; especially a black athlete who dares speak out about any race issues?Quote him literally: "When [read more...]

Breaking Down the Belmont

The third and oldest jewel of the Triple Crown appears to be a two-horse race between Curlin [shown at right passing Street Sense in the Preakness] and Hard Spun.The absence of Street Sense has ushered in a couple more challengers, but they shouldn't alter the results. Here's a look at the horses and how they should finish in the 139th [read more...]

LeBron Changes… Everything

6/2/2007 6:00:00 PM by D.K. Wilson Bye-bye Kobe. Can you say Sisyphus? ------------------------ What franchise is worth more, the NBA or Nike? Oh, I thought so. Because Bron Bron, the Game One idiot savant with his idiosyncratic way of pounding opposing players with his body on the way to the rack like the cartoon Bam Bam, sloughed off the "idiot" and looks [read more...]

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