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The Pitch For More No. 42s
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Yet another movie about Jackie Robinson arrived as baseball held its annual commemorative celebration of No. 42, but officials of the game are fretting over the fact that only 8 1/2 percent of current major leaguers are black.
Given that African-Americans only constitute about 13 percent of the U.S. population, ...
Tiger At The Masters: The Juncture Of Exhilaration And Peril
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Let us now ponder the exquisite status of Tiger Woods, who has clawed back to the top of the charts thereby to proclaim, with the help of his Nike mouthpiece, that his ragged and raw past few years never really happened because — ta-da –– as his ad says: "Winning ...
Baseball Isn't Dead; It Just Takes More Work To Appreciate
Wednesday, April 03, 2013
It being the start of baseball season, that means we've been inundated by predictions — who'll win the divisions and the pennants and the World Series? We know two things on this subject. In every sport, at the start of the season, the experts are bound and determined to make ...
It's Been An Ugly Year For College Basketball
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
There once was a wise old basketball coach named Arad McCutchan who led the Evansville Purple Aces to five national championships in the small-college division, dressing his Purple Aces in bright orange T-shirts. I've been reminded of this recently as a number of grubby athletic directors have sold out to ...
What's The Score On Spirited Sports Banter At Bars?
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
The more I travel, the more I see sports bars. They've been around for years, usually in obvious places, like in college towns or near arenas.
But now they're everywhere, even in airports and hotels, places where you'd expect generic bars. Sports bars are becoming ubiquitous and ordinary — merely, ...
School Bands Should Not Be Entertainment Adjunct For Sports
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Several years ago I gave a speech in which I mentioned that athletes tended to be the only college students who were awarded scholarships for what is an extracurricular activity.
Afterward, Myles Brand, the late president of the NCAA, told me I was wrong, that many music extracurricular scholarships were ...
Catholic Universities See True Path To Salvation: Basketball
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
I've always felt it's no coincidence that some basketball powerhouses — let us say, off the top of my head, Duke, Kentucky, Kansas and Indiana — get a few better players because those hoops museums don't do very well with football.
I mean, if I were a big-deal high school ...
Dear College Presidents: Break The NCAA's Vise Grip On Athletes
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
The great social quest in American sport is to have one prominent, active, gay male athlete step forward and identify himself.
But I have a similar quest. I seek one prominent college president to say to her trustees or to the other presidents in his conference: "The NCAA is a ...
NHL Lockout Leaves Fans Out In The Cold
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Brooklyn Finally Nets A Team Of Its Own
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
The NFL's Lesson: There's No Replacing Good Refs
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
Serena Williams Takes Tennis For A Ride
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
The NBA Is Bullish On Christmas, By Necessity
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The Entitled
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
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