Modern day sports, as you may know, is as much about money as it is about effort, tradition, on-field heroics and sideline clipboard brilliance. Foremost among American sports is football, but it […]
Gambling, football embrace
Holiday wish list for sports
In the old, bourbon-besotted days of yore, sports columnists facing a Christmas holiday and bereft of anything remarkable to write, turned to a creaky tradition: a mock “wish list” for athletic celebrities […]
It’s in the rules, Patrick
Next time, maybe Patrick “State Farm” Mahomes needs to bundle some humility with perspective. As the whole football-watching world knows, the Kansas City Chiefs star quarterback flew into a rage at the […]
When did you get picked?
Think back, all you one-time boys and girls. Remember when you were barely tall enough to get on the really good rides at Disneyland. In P.E. class or in the neighborhood park […]
Our veteran outplayed theirs
Our big headline at the top of the front page of our sports section on Saturday really made for some nervous moments. “Who Will Stop The Rams Now,” seemed a little premature […]
Ducks, slows and scapegoats
A little of this, a little of that …. Football’s turn: Is it just me, or does it seem like football, especially pro football, is slowing down? Just as baseball has taken […]
If Rangers, why not Angels?
“The road is short that never bends.” – Anonymous The bend in the road for the Texas Rangers took a while to arrive, but arrive it did … after 12 years. But […]
Jolly good, London Monarchs!
There’s a great big world out there. And it doesn’t end at the borders or seashores. Let’s turn our attention from the We-Don’t-Care-Series toward an intriguing idea floated by NFL Commissioner Roger […]
Don’t kick the bucket, either
There’s nothing you can do badly that you can’t make worse. Ask Shane Beamer. The head football coach at the University of South Carolina broke a bone in his right foot when […]
Taylor Swift: New kind of MVP
The most prominent issue in the North American sports world is not the dissolution of the Pac-12, the semi-annual collapse of the Los Angeles Dodgers in post-season play, or whether or not […]
