I was watching some of the Detroit Tigers – New York Yankees game today and was bemused by the color commentary. After Alex Rodriguez hit his nineteenth home run of the season, the announcers discussed how impressive A-Rod has been this year, first coming back from his injury ahead of schedule and then hitting those [...]

It appears that the entire sporting world has subscribed to the Lindsay Lohan school of career-scarring substance abuse.

Drugs in sports are nothing new, but recently we’ve been subject to an alarming upswing.  In just the last two weeks the following headlines have disgraced the front pages of the sports sheets:

Manny Ramirez tested positive for a [...]

Hey, A-Rod, you know what would help that torn hip labrum heal faster?  Human Growth Hormone.  Oh, wait, you’re probably already taking that.  Illegally.
In case you haven’t heard, Alex Rodriguez is expected to be out four months with a torn labrum in his right hip.  Now, I’m not one to wish injury on anybody, but [...]

Sorry if I’ve been a little quiet lately, been battling a bug that has left my head rather cloudy–making it very difficult to formulate coherent thoughts.
February has always struck me as an odd month in sports. Everything seems to be on the “verge”. Baseball season is on the verge of starting (for that [...]

OUR STARS, OUR SELVES
Pundits, philosophers, and various sports “punjabberwockers” have weighed in on the A-Roid revelations.
Almost all place the blame on, of course, A-Hole and his fellow players. Others blame the Commish, Bud Selig–whose initials flirt with cosmic perfection–and still more point to Major League Baseball Players Association head Donald Fehr as being the [...]