If you’re one of the many who watched the NCAA basketball finals on Sunday and Monday, perhaps you came away with two observations: the UConn men’s team was the most team-like team […]
Opinion: Caitlin Clark could surprise us by playing in NBA
Opinion: Best baseball movies
We’re still in the “fantasy phase” of the 2024 Major League Baseball season in which everything – good or bad – is still possible. The Astros – as of Monday’s games – […]
Opinion: Sho me the money, or at least just sho us some answers
There’s a scene in the TV series “Justified” in which Deputy U.S. Marshall Raylin Givens – at gunpoint – asks a bad guy to tell him what he knows about a certain […]
Opinion: The 49ers got dragged all the way down to The Beach
Probably the most interesting thing about Long Beach State’s opening round 85-65 loss to Arizona in the first round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament isn’t the fact that it was the […]
Opinion: Sports Re-Animated
Shohei and the Blue Crew are lighting up Korea, every gambler and hoops fan in America is seized by March Madness and is feverishly filling out his or her brackets and Jimmy […]
Opinion: There’s real good real estate for sports in Las Vegas
The theory that women’s professional sports would never be “big league – that is, attracting big audiences in the arenas and stadiums – took a forearm shiver (look it up!) this week […]
Sports Opinion: Waving the white flag isn’t always wrong
I feel your pain, Steve Kerr. Kerr, coach of the Golden State Warriors, on Sunday pulled four of his starters – at halftime – against the Boston Celtics, who had a 44-point […]
Gold rush for college football
Now comes the real gold rush. A real college football playoff system, once regarded as the most horrifying athletic innovation since night baseball, is about to blow past the World Series and […]
3rd-baseman who wasn’t there
Tony, Tony, Tony … what are you doing? Didn’t you ever see the “Bull Durham” movie where Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) counseled a player to use only bland cliches when speaking to […]
The search for a true Big Dog
It’s time for the NBA All-Star break and …. zzz. I’m sorry, but does professional basketball seem to lack a certain electric attraction in the same way that other Big Four sports […]
