Lester Munson of ESPN.com had a great column about the impact of Barack Obama’s presidency on sports. Obviously, his tax plan to increase the amount paid by anyone who makes more than $250,000 a year will affect every single professional athlete. It affects every owner, too. In a tough economic time, when losses have been [...]
It’s Election Day, which means it’s your duty to vote! Right?
Wrong. When I was a kid, my teachers always told me it was my civic duty to vote. As an adult, I couldn’t disagree more. Not everyone has the duty to vote. Only those who are informed and want to have a say in how [...]
It was my first first game. No, that is not a typo. It was the first time I attended the first game of a team’s season. USC vs. Virginia.
I pulled up to the pre-appointed meeting place. Josh and Tim were waiting. Both wore USC shirts. I got out of my car, wearing my Virginia cap [...]
Coffee shop snobs are the beatniks of the 21st century. They are usually male, always single, often in their twenties. They wear thin T-shirts with band names or make-believe places across the front and jeans with holes in them. Their hair is one inch too long, unkempt, unattractive. They have facial [...]
There was once a time when “innocent until proven guilty” was true. That gave way to the era of instant news and radio talk shows where we assumed a verdict once evidence presented itself.
Now, we don’t even wait for evidence. If we see something happen that we can’t believe, then we assume it [...]
Follow this progression with me. Kevin McHale is a former player and champion with the Boston Celtics. As an ex-player, he finds a job as general manager of the Minnesota Timberwolves. His star player is Kevin Garnett. In fact, Garnett is the only star the team has ever had. Ever. [...]
I’m an old-fashioned guy. I was raised in a stable, two-parent home and learned by watching others around me that being raised in a two-parent home is the ideal situation for any child. A home with a single parent, usually a mother, is problematic, especially when a young boy grows up without a father figure steering his course [...]
I grew up on a farm. Actually, I grew up in a town of about four hundred people but my father owns and operates a farm that my grandparents, his parents, live on. It is the ultimate rural setting. Nothing but black dirt and open farmland for as far as the eye can see. The land [...]
The biggest debate in 21st century sports media coverage involves the comparison between the court of law and the court of public opinion. A steady stream of sports personalities make their way through the United States court system, and, because of the 24/7, instant news atmosphere, it is immediately covered on sports television and sports [...]
Baseball will always be America’s national pastime. I recognize that the NFL is America’s most popular sport right now, but being most popular is not the same as being the pastime. Baseball is, and will forever be, part of American culture. It was there during the Great Depression, during and after each of the World [...]