I just got back from Boston.
While there I had a chance to read the Boston Globe sports page, which I remembered fondly from my college days in the early 1980s. It started as a pleasant déjà vu; however, after a couple articles I couldn’t help but remember the strange dichotomy of the Boston media.
Boston has [...]

Happy New Year!
We’ve been awfully quiet for the last two weeks, and I apologize. It was not my intention to slag, but I went to visit my family over the holidays only to discover that they had a miserable internet connection that made it impossible for me to do just about anything. Then I became [...]

DISCLAIMER Born and raised in a small Pittsburgh suburb where the smell of slag meant people were working hard and proud of it. I wear Pirate gear as proudly as Steeler and Penguin stuff.
Last week, I‘m in a sports bar the Flyers are losing a hockey game, the Steelers rallying against [...]

Week 15 is over and the NFC Playoff Picture is as murky as ever. With only two positions clinched (the New York Giants in the East and the Arizona Cardinals in the West), eleven teams are very much alive. Shockingly, the Giants, who a mere two weeks ago (i.e. before the Plaxico Burress fiasco and [...]

Today Junior Seau has come out of retirement a second time to rejoin the New England Patriots’ injury-decimated defense. The Seau signing comes only two days after another former Patriot, Rosevelt Colvin, also rejoined the Pats to help with the team’s end of season playoff-push stretch drive. The big question is not whether it will [...]

Ah, December… The leaves have changed (at least if you live in area where the leaves do change, unlike myself in Los Angeles), the holiday season is upon us, and five major sports are in full swing.  So, for today, let’s take a capsule look at what’s going on.
NFL: Last week, I looked at the parity [...]

The NFL has fined the Dolphins’ Channing Crowder and the Patriots’ Matt Light each $15,000 for their on-field fight this past Sunday?
$15,000?  That’s it?  Both players deserved a suspension.  $15,000 is a drop in the bucket to top-tier athletes, neither a significant punishment nor a deterrent to other players for future brawls.  Football is a [...]

Parity, thy name is the NFL.  To be sure, at 10-1 each the Tennessee Titans and New York Giants are running away with the AFC and NFC, respectively, but after those two teams…  The next 17 teams all have records of either 8-3 (4), 7-4 (7) or 6-5 (6).  How close together are the majority [...]

No one likes to lose, and while Patriot fans may be disappointed that New England lost to the rival New York Jets in overtime last night, they can take solace in the play of Matt Cassel.  The backup quarterback, who until this season hadn’t started a game since high school, finally came of age in [...]

Yesterday, I looked at the North Carolina Tar Heels and their chances of attaining perfection during the 2008-2009 college basketball season.  Today let’s take a look at some of the other interesting tidbits we can glean from the AP preseason basketball poll as well as compare it to the USA Today Coaches poll.
Big East Dominance
The [...]