The Brain Leak

The Brain Leak (Week of 7/21/08 - 7/27/08) My friends, I must apologize for robbing you of an intro last week. It's outside my realm of understanding how I could let something like that happen. My lackluster effort becomes all the more reprehensible when I begin to contemplate how the first paragraph of each column I write does wonders for the content [read more...]

Summerfest Sports Orgy Blitzkrieg Quiz

I'm feeling a little more A.D.D. than usual today. And being the super-spaz child that I am inside, I'm looking for answers to a thousand (and one) questions. Discuss amongst yourselves... please help me answer my most pressing doubts, concerns, and fears. Take your time... this is one of [read more...]

The Brain Leak

The Brain Leak (Week of 6/16/08 - 6/22/08) Another week, another seven days worth of sports-related drivel. With not much more than the yearly push towards the Mid-Summer Classic to bide my time, you'll notice I have instituted some fresh (some might say seedy) perspectives to the already multi-faceted Leak. In addition to serving up heaping servings of the usual BS, TBL [read more...]

Obama refuses to acknowledge bulletin board material

Hillary Clinton is ready to take on Barack Obama "anytime, anywhere." So says the senator speaking in North Carolina while fresh off a decisive Pennsylvania primary victory. I think she even threatened to take on Washington with a bold brand of rhetoric, but I wasn't sure if she meant Gilbert Arenas or the nation's capital. [read more...]

Congress Stepping In on Steroid Issue

Often the only way that reform happens is when Congress threatens to do something about it, because if there's one thing that can screw up even the best-run situation, it's governmental intervention. Baseball, poorly run in the best of times, is even more fearful of governmental intervention because Congress holds the power to eliminate baseball's antitrust exemption.In light of the [read more...]