Posted on May 5th, 2021
As a physical specimen, LeBron James has been consistently amazing as a basketball player and an athlete for 18 seasons. However, this year looks like an exception. We have become so used to our top athletes doing inhuman things that when they make a very human admission like LeBron James did recently when he said […]
Posted on April 27th, 2021
The parity of the NFL is what makes it such a great league. Teams can go from 4-12 in one year to a playoff team that has serious Super Bowl aspirations the next. Free agency can change a team’s fortunes — just ask the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But for the most part, if your team […]
Posted on April 22nd, 2021
The Pittsburgh Steelers love to have continuity at the top of their coaching staff. Since Chuck Noll was hired to coach the Steelers in 1969, only two other men have held the position — Bill Cowher, who was hired in 1992, and Mike Tomlin, who was hired in 2007. And Tomlin is sticking around at […]
Posted on April 20th, 2021
Just three weeks ago, the New York Yankees were the betting favorite to win the American League and trailed only the Los Angeles Dodgers as the most likely team to win the World Series. They broke spring training with a stacked offense and a pair of aces to lead the rotation in Gerrit Cole and […]
Posted on April 14th, 2021
Already postponed by a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, a large majority of surveyed Japanese say that they aren’t ready for the Olympic Games to go forward this summer either. A Kyodo News poll showed that 39 percent of those surveyed said the Olympics and Paralympics should be canceled outright, while another 33 percent […]
Posted on April 13th, 2021
The partnership between future baseball Hall of Famer Alex Rodriguez and billionaire investor Marc Lore is finally close to purchasing the professional sports team they’ve long coveted. Last year, the two business partners attempted to purchase the New York Mets but were ultimately outbid by hedge fund manager Steve Cohen. Now they are reportedly in […]
Posted on April 10th, 2021
The biggest horse race of the “Triple Crown” is at the start of the season rather than the end. That is, unless there is a horse in contention to win all three, then the final race becomes most important. This year’s Kentucky Derby is in three weeks from today and we have the skinny on […]
Posted on April 7th, 2021
Members of the San Diego Padres front office have seen their heart rhythms return to normal on the news that it appears the shoulder injury suffered by Fernando Tatis Jr. will not need season-ending surgery. Locking up the 22-year-old was one of the chief accomplishments in a very good offseason in San Diego. But a […]
Posted on March 31st, 2021
Major League Baseball teams have broken their spring training camps and are now headed to the road to begin the regular season on April 1. It’s a time of excitement and anticipation, and for the Mets front office, a time of great angst. When the team traded for shortstop Francisco Lindor in January, they weren’t […]
Posted on March 30th, 2021
Boxing isn’t as popular as it once was. I remember back in the day when everyone knew who the current boxing champ was. And that went for multiple weight-classes. Today if you ask a kid who the heavyweight champion of boxing is they probably would not know. Some of boxing’s lost luster comes down to […]