Here’s the post that gets you ready for Monday June 1st when Conan O’Brien takes over NBC’s “The Tonight Show” from Jay Leno. Despite the seemingly seamless transition at the third-rated network, there’s a lot of grudgy feelings and high stakes at play. The highest stakes are with NBC suits Jeff Zucker and program whiz [...]

Syracuse coach John Desko takes his 15-2 Orangemen into today’s NCAA Lacrosse Championship at Foxborough, MA against “down Route 81 state rival” Cornell, looking for their 11th National Championship in 16 tries. Cornell, 13-3, led by coach Jeff Tambroni has beaten both teams that bested Syracuse this year (Virginia and Princeton) to get to the [...]

We have been spending an inordinate amount of time watching referees and umpires over the holiday weekend. Replays continue to show how they miss calls. The less surprising thing from the viewer’s perspective is the lack of indignance demonstrated by announcers. It doesn’t take long to justify in the fan’s mind. Officials are human, slo-mo [...]

Blame the stupid feud between the IRL and CART for wrecking what was once a pretty important sporting event, raced every Memorial Day, called the Indianapolis 500. It’s now run on Sunday of Memorial weekend, but its still in Indianapolis and still 500 miles long. Slowly, but surely the race is coming back in the [...]

Jake Peavy rejecting the trade to the Chicago White Sox is probably a good thing for the Padres, because despite firebombing the team over a divorce, White Sox prospect lefties Aaron Poreda and Clayton Richard simply weren’t enough to help the Pads. It was made clear that Sox’ top prospect shortstop Gordon Beckham was out [...]