Colleges Institute New Kind Of Signing Day

June 12, 2010 – June, 2010 will forever be known as the beginning of a new type of letter of intent day. It marks the date when major college football programs began the profit-incented migration to new conferences, which should lead to a complete overhaul of alignment that will turn college sports on its head. The University of Nebraska went first as it declared its intention to leave the... [Read more]

Sportscream Media Watch

June 11, 2010 – The dust-up between New York Post columnist Phil Mushnick and ESPN/Yankee mouthpiece Michael Kay was over Mushnick’s protectively veiled claim that Kay’s lifting of newspaper information verbatim and using it as his own was dishonest. It had to do with Mushnick being “critical” of Dave Winfield’s ESPN television analyst skills and explaining (and... [Read more]

Signs That Things Are Going to Michael Kay’s Oversized and Misshaped Head

June 9, 2010 – For those of our readers outside New York and Japan who may not know, Michael Kay is a New York Yankee television broadcaster and radio host on NYC’s ESPN outlet during prime afternoon commuter time. He was born and raised in the Bronx, educated at Fordham and served as a sportswriter at the New York Post and The Daily News, which led him through a Yankee beat job to an... [Read more]

Three Things For The Weekend

June 6, 2010 – It’s been a week now and the Duke University lacrosse team has glowed in the light as national champions for several days. It’s time to say that if any good lacrosse team were given an extra year of eligibility for it’s players, they too would probably witness the glow as number 1. It is the single most favorable decison ever granted to an NCAA team, giving... [Read more]

Selig Remains The Sphinx

June 5, 2010 – He was once a small market owner who friendlied his way to the job as commissioner. He went from being one of them to working for them. No neat trick. The job required speaking softly and not carrying a big stick. Bud Selig has been at it now for 18 years. Like all commissioners, he pretty much does what he wants with the things that fall into his purview. Steroids? Ignore... [Read more]