January 3, 2010 – Imagine if you go home for the holidays and you park your luxury ride outside mom’s house and within minutes its gone. Or when the plumbers leave the vacant fix-up house next door, two guys with pipe cutters show up and remove all the copper. That when you peer out the [...]
1. The BCS.See: Prior post. 2. Video Replay. Football does it slowly. Basketball does it for scoring. Hockey does it in Toronto. Baseball refuses to use it for anything besides home runs. There is a definate need to integrate replay into baseball. Traditionalists argue that human mistakes have always been part of the game. They [...]
Sally Jenkins wrote an article in Parade Magazine this past Sunday that followed her adventures of attending a game at the Dallas Cowboys new $1.15 billion stadium. Jenkins, of The Washington Post, is the daughter of great Texan sportswriter Dan Jenkins. Both were SI writers and possess a little cowboy (or cowgirl) in their styles, [...]
October 13, 2009 By Bill Thomas There is nothing else like it in the logical world. If it worked this way in medicine, our cemeteries would be full. If it worked this way in science, we’d probably be flying off the earth. In sports, we leave the final determination in the hands of some subjective, [...]
By Norman Rey Jim Rome returns from a week’s vacation and I have to admit I missed him. Subhost Jeff Chahida just doesn’t get it. Rome kicks off ESPN’s afternoon of sports talk weekdays (except Monday) and is the first to spout about the top items of the day (only to be repeated over the [...]
