*Breaking* Tiger to Return to Golf At The Masters

Tiger Woods is returning to golf at The Masters: The Masters is where I won my first Major and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game I feel like I am ready to start my season at Augusta. Sports Illustrated golf writer Damon Hack was then asked on the ESPN morning show, [read more...]

Short Notes: Tiger (with more info), MLB, Olympics, 2 New NBA Trades (more to come)

Lindsey Vonn after her Gold Medal run in the Women's Downhill. Tiger Woods is holding a press conference Friday at 11 A.M.: “While Tiger feels that what happened is fundamentally a matter between he and his wife, he also recognizes that he has hurt and let down a lot of other people who were close to him,” Mark Steinberg said in an [read more...]

D.C. Could Use a Little Local Understanding for Gilbert Arenas

Due to His incident with Javaris Crittenton, Gilbert Arenas has suddenly become a mystery. At 2:40 p.m. EST Friday Chad Dukes, co-host of an afternoon 106.7 The Fan radio show in Washington, D.C. told a story about getting pulled over by a policeman after he was out drinking with his girlfriend. Dukes admitted that if the policeman desired he could have [read more...]

Happy 30th ESPN: The WWL Lionizes Black Athletes (just not in the way the headline suggests)

Well people, after 30 years of ESPN we all should see it pretty plainly now. Thirty years ago Bill Rasmussen had an idea that one day his television network would be the sports fan’s first and final destination for sports; that his network would be the first and last word in sports. Look at it today. It is the television network for [read more...]

ESPN, NFL, and the Where the Road Ends (plus, THE Michael Vick File)

“I think the commissioner, all things considered, probably made the best decision that was realistically at his disposal to make,” said Mike Greenberg about Roger the Blond Ghost Goodell’s decision to rein-suspend-ate Michael Vick to end Tuesday’s Mike and Mike in the Morning show.  This, after many conversations with mainstream sports journalists about Vick that ended yesterday, I thought that, perhaps, I needed to reassess [read more...]

Will ESPN Take Over as Worldwide Leader of Andrea McNulty’s Public Flogging?

Ben Roethlisberger faces a "steep uphill climb to prove his innocence." (PDF File of the Civil complaint against Ben Roethlisberger) When it come to public figures, some people believe there are not forces behind the scenes manipulating their careers, for the good or bad. Some public figures are meant to take a dive when they fall prey to their personal liabilities. Some [read more...]

The Biggest Story in Sports Is Also the Biggest Secret in Sports… Also: NBA Pressed by Congressman on Age-Limit Rule

A cold chill could soon come over professional sports. Soaring ticket and merchandise prices would drive the average fan away from stadiums - and likely away from team support. The players’ unions would all be fractured or no-existent, but not before they embark on the strike to end all strikes against draconian new economic standards set by leagues that benefit no [read more...]

The Milk Carton Women: Diana, Nicole, Martina, and Jenny

Martina turned out to be a little snow bunny. Former U.S. champion and Olympic ice skater Nicole Bobek, was recently busted for distribution of methamphetamine. But at 17 and near the height of her skating career, Bobek was also arrested for first degree home invasion, for which she received probation. Diana Taurasi, of the Phoenix Mercury and Olympic gold medalist, was cited [read more...]

Selena Roberts Blackballed by the Good Folks at the Big Subliminal

Would you blackball this face? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Selena Roberts writes a salacious books about Alex Rodriguez (it’s actually kind of funny in a sad sort of way - A-Rod is sad and not without his share of problems). Roberts then gave Bob Costas the first shot at an interview, which she and he conducted on [read more...]

On Selena Roberts, A-Rod, Len Dykstra, and Sports Media

    Should this photo double as a "Wanted" poster? Thanks to the recent spate of books about performance-enhancing drugs and various athletes who have or may have used them mainstream sports writing is in trouble of becoming a national joke. And here’s why: a columnist for the New York Times remarked on a popular nightime talk show that he was not [read more...]

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