This time, the message has been sent by AT&T.  The telephone company pulled their sponsorship plug on Tiger Woods, joining Accenture and Gillette as companies that no longer want to be associated with the admitted adulterer. We probably are making too big a deal of this at this time, considering Woods has taken an indefinite [...]

Michael Vick is right, he’s been creating awareness since he left prison. Thanks to the serial canine killer, I’m now aware of Ed Block. Even though the NFL has given out the Ed Block Courage Award to one member of each team for a couple of decades, I must admit, prior to this week, I [...]

 
On September 10, 2000, Indiana University President Myles Brand had seen enough, and did the unthinkable. He fired the basketball coach who brought the school 3 NCAA championships. The week prior to his dismissal for what Brand called ”a pattern of unacceptable behavior”, Bob Knight grabbed a student by the arm to lecture him about [...]

Only three players in the American League struck out more than Jason Bay did in 2009. And, while the Red Sox outfielder supplied plenty of pop to the Sox lineup with 36 home runs, and 119 rbi, he was held to a .263 batting average. Not to date myself, but in my day, if an [...]

 Am I the only person wondering how Tiger Woods found the time to get good at golf? I always thought Tiger had a one track mind, and I guess I was right. If you’re keeping score at home, Tiger has just finished the front 9. Nine women have reportedly stepped forward and admitted to getting close [...]

The five Heisman finalists are announced. Stanford RB Toby Gerhart, Texas QB Colt McCoy, Nebraska DT Ndamukong Suh, previous winner Florida QB Tim Tebow, and Alabama RB Mark Ingram will be at the Downtown Athletic Club for the ESPN broadcast of the 2009 Heisman Trophy Award.
An ever bigger story for bettors is that it’s [...]

THUD!                                                                                              DECEMBER 1, 2009
That thud you just heard is the sound of the Patriots not just failing to perform on the stage of Monday Night Football, but falling off of it.
 
That thud you heard is the hopes of the Patriot faithful for a Super Bowl, which just hit the floor like some punch drunk palooka.
 
That [...]

“This is not in the Bill of Rights, but I think all Americans have a right to screw up their own marriages. I don’t know if Tiger Woods has exercised that right or not. We might never know. It is, frankly, not our business.”  Well stated Michael Rosenberg of the Detroit Free Press.  I have [...]