The Indiana Pacers are 7-4, having won all seven during their latest eight-game stretch, and no one is talking about them. National media fawns over the crazy numbers posted by James Harden, star-driven teams in LA, and the nonsensical drama that the New York Knicks wear like their jerseys. Local media is so focused upon […]
There is something admirable about a guy with a tough poker hand throwing all his chips into the middle of the table. Bad golfers who press bets over and over earn our esteem if not our money. The short squatty guy hitting on the leggy model deserves credit for taking a shot. I felt like I […]
The blood spilled in Lexington tonight was as blue as the nation of despondent fans who are mourning tonight after Evansville pulled the 67-64 upset over the #1 Kentucky Wildcats.. It’s a beautiful night as justice came to Rupp Arena in the form of the one team from the state of Indiana John Calipari will allow […]
Don Cherry spent many years hosting Coaches Corner on Hockey Night in Canada in his own unique way. Today, he responded in a unique way to being fired for comments interpreted by Canada Sportsnet as racist and intolerant. “I have just learned I’ve been fired by Sportsnet for comments made on Coach’s Corner Nov. 9, no […]
Indiana Basketball’s November march of paid opponents continues tonight at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall as the University of North Alabama comes to town. For many of us, these games are the only moments we consider the existence of schools like North Alabama, and we wonder things like, I wonder if North Alabama is actually to the […]
Adam Vinatieri was the best in NFL history to kick a football through uprights, but he isn’t that today. As with all athletes, skills erode and the ability to compete at the highest level wanes. That Vinatieri is still as good as he is at almost 47 years of age is remarkable, but that doesn’t […]
Sports media person voices polarizing opinion about something other than sports; people are outraged and complain; sports media person is fired. Bing, bang, bong. That’s how it ended for Don Cherry, the guy who has worn outrageous suits on Canada Sportsnet’s “Hockey Night in Canada” for the past 40 years. He veered from his lane, and […]
Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri is the best in the history of the game, and his career is about to end. That’s the way it goes for everyone in professional sports – either you die a hero or live long enough to become a villain. Vinatieri spent a lot of years flirting with perfection as he enjoyed […]
The NCAA does not like being dragged into court by member universities or their athletes, so in 1975 it enacted the Restitution Rule that may be used to punish schools and programs who parade attorneys into a courtroom to seek relief from a finding that an athlete is ineligible. This is exactly what happened when the NCAA […]
[None of the below applies to freak athletes who can walk onto a almost any field or court and be the best player on it. They are special and rules most of us need to respect do not apply to them.] Specialization in youth sports is a topic that crops up now and then on […]
