Headlines for October, 2007

Ty and Babe – The Best of Rivals and Friends

Relationships between great athletes have always captured the imagination of sports fans. Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali. Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley. Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter.In Ty and The Babe: Baseball's Fiercest Rivals; A Surprising Friendship And The 1941 Has-Beens Golf Championship, author Tom Stanton examines the unique relationship between Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth. Following one of the [read more...]

Sox Sweep – Thank God?

I am extremely happy that the Colorado Christians, I mean Rockies, were swept by the Boston Red Sox - and it has nothing to do with my team preference.What, you didn't know about the "Christianado" Rockies? Like the denizens of today's White House, Rockies president Keli McGregor and manager Clint Hurdle have prayer meetings at the drop of a ------ [read more...]

Charlie Danoff’s Quick Explanation of Boxing

Ed. Note - Some of the rules and practices described below are specific to international boxing, or the AIBA World Championships in particular. Each individual boxing match requires a lot of people to happen. There are the two boxers in their red and blue corners, each boxer's two coaches, the referee, the judges and the jury. A bout consists of four [read more...]

Schilling for the Hall

One school of thought says Curt Schilling, with 216 career regular-season wins, does not belong in the MLB Hall of Fame. In his 20-year career, he has had eight sub-.500 win-loss records. His career average year is 14-9 with a 3.46 ERA. Compare Schilling's stats with those of a contemporary sure-fire HOF pitcher, Roger Clemens. Clemens had only one sub-.500 [read more...]

Same Old Big Ten Story

The two schools have combined for sixteen National Titles, seventy-three Big Ten Championships, nine Heisman Trophy winners and one hundred and three years of the greatest rivalry in college football.Last year they played in one of those instant classics - the rare contest that actually lived up to the excessive hype that surrounded it. This season was supposed to be [read more...]

Keyshawn vs. Ocho-Cinco - A Sad Display

I will leave delving into historic and antagonistic black versus black arguments to others. And I, unfortunately, do not expect some people to understand what I am about to say, which is sad because that means you probably relished the scene that was so disheartening to many people of color, including me. The glee with which the Keyshawn Johnson vs. [read more...]

Quiet Colts

As many of you know, late Green Bay Packers wide receiver Max McGee once said, "When its third-and-10, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time." Well, the Jacksonville Jaguars proved to the nation Monday night that they're still the milk drinkers of the AFC South. By the way, rest in peace, Max, and [read more...]

The Tangled Web of BC Races

There are so many Breeders' Cup races this weekend I didn't know where to start. I began handicapping last week to get a jump on the 11 races spread over two days beginning Friday at Monmouth Park. Then the changes began: injuries, withdrawals, switching races, etc. It's not easy being a horseplayer in the fall when the BC rolls around.I've [read more...]

The Torre Overreaction

The baseball and sports writing world is kneeling at the Wailing Wall of Monument Park in Yankee Stadium and puling at the "injustice" of the contract offer to Joe Torre.Woe is Joe! A paltry five million dollar a year contract with three million dollars in incentives based on the New York Yankees performance in the 2008 season. Can you believe [read more...]

E:60 - 60 Minutes of… What?

I didn't want to snap off a commentary on ESPN's new, "hard-hitting" "news" program, E:60 and regret anything I wrote later. I wanted to take a minute, go through my day, think about the show's various segments, watch it once more and then write my feelings about ESPN's answer to HBO's Real Sports.The outrageous show of self-importance aside - reporters [read more...]

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