Posted on July 21st, 2021
Major League Baseball inducts a handful of people into its hall of fame every year. In most decades you have the “shoe-in” guys who you know are going to get in and should be there. And then you have the borderline guys who had great careers but voters are split on if they are HoF […]
Posted on July 21st, 2021
On Wednesday, the new NFL season becomes official when the Cowboys and Steelers open training camp. The Buccaneers follow on Sunday, with the other 29 teams all breaking camp on July 27. The offseason is nearly over, but the changing of personnel that highlights every offseason isn’t quite done. Just because it’s offseason doesn’t mean […]
Posted on July 20th, 2021
The Major League Baseball trade deadline is July 30, and with this year’s return to a full season of baseball, we should see a return to the flurry of activity in the final 24 hours of trading. Joey Gallo – Texas Rangers With the Rangers hopelessly in last place in the American League West and […]
Posted on July 17th, 2021
Bitcoin and sports betting have histories which are permanently etched together. The reason for this is that BTC was being used as a payment system for offshore sportsbooks as far back as 2013. The reason: All other payment methods were clunky, expensive or slow (or all of the above). BTC offered a faster payment system […]
Posted on July 14th, 2021
He came into the 2021 season as a curiosity for much of the fandom of Major League Baseball. A pitcher that was also a designated hitter. Interesting, but not exactly the biggest headline maker in baseball back in spring training. But on Tuesday night, the Los Angeles Angels’ Shohei Ohtani was the starting pitcher for […]
Posted on July 7th, 2021
The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet club parts with its traditions as easily as a middle-aged man parts with an old concert t-shirt — which is to say, it usually never happens. Wimbledon is the oldest Grand Slam tennis tournament in the world, first played in 1877, and it is the only tournament still […]
Posted on June 30th, 2021
The U.S. Olympic Trials finished up on Sunday night, and the women’s gymnastic team that emerged from the competition in St. Louis might be the very best the U.S. has ever sent to the Games. Simone Biles isn’t just the best gymnast in the world, and she is the best gymnast of all time. And […]
Posted on June 29th, 2021
Phase one of Major League Baseball’s All-Star voting is over. The field of eligible starters for the game in Denver in two weeks has been narrowed to three players per position, per league. It is now time for phase two of All-Star voting, beginning on Monday and ending on Thursday, July 1. Catcher NL: Yadier […]
Posted on June 23rd, 2021
The last of the NFL’s 32 teams finished up mandatory mini camps last week, and now we won’t see any players on the field until training camps begin next month. The Steelers and Cowboys open on July 21, the Bucs begin on the 24th, and the remaining 29 teams open camp on the 27th. Although […]
Posted on June 22nd, 2021
There were no COVID protocols to derail his weekend of golf, as there had been in his previous tournament. There would be no satisfaction with a top-10 finish, as there had been at seven of his previous major championship starts. As the heavy favorite to claim victory at Torrey Pines on Sunday, it was win […]