The U.S. Senate has asked the NFL commissioner to make more game-day broadcasts available to local fans at no cost on broadcast television. From the article in the Sports Business Journal: “The league already provides free broadcasts in the home cities of competing teams, but in a letter to Commissioner, Roger Goodell, 13 members of the Senate said that the NFL...
Karl MacGinty has some thoughts on the why the Irish Government should bail out the Irish Open. Sounds good to me, that tournament rocks. Wanna bet Padraig Harrington agrees? Of course, one of my favorite all-star writers, Mike Vaccaro has this throwaway classic about Tampa Bay Rays pitcher David Price, who rocked my beloved Red Sox to sleep. Man, come all...
Steve Elling of CBS Sports is the leader in the clubhouse for the best article of the year with this scathing appraisal of why we all don’t need to see golf in the Olympics. Here’s some great quotes: “Ah, remember the days when sports and nations trying to curry favor with the IOC did things the old-fashioned way? “Back then, IOC members would...
Would you like to hear great two reasons to play a little low-limit on-line poker? Brandon Akey of Wooster, Ohio had never flown in an airplane in his life. “I’ve taken one vacation in my life, when I was in eighth grade, and that was to Florida” he remarked with a smile and a shrug. But now Brandon and a friend have left snowy, rainy Ohio long...
Once again, my beloved Azzuri (that’s Italy, people), get treated like they’re Albania when it comes to the group stage. World Champs and we’re in a SECOND “group of death,” just like in the 2006 World Cup. This time we get France (runner-up at the World Cup…oh it felt good to type that), Romania (strong), and The...
I’m normally not into schadenfreude, but in his case, I’ll make an exception. Isiah, PLEASE let the door hit you on your worthless bee-hind on the way out the door.
In my many dealings with the Chinese government as a lawyer, I have heard the catchphrase “diplomatic immunity” used as a shield to avoid everything from paying for intellectual property rights to getting ordinary E&O insurance to cover an event. The Chinese Government doesn’t negotiate like we do, they bully, scream, cajole, caper, and...
Thank Goodness Geoff Ogilvy temporarily halted the canonization of St. Eldrick. If I have to endure one more sacchrinny-sweet article full of nothing more than rehashed hagiographic hero worship, I’m going to eat my boxers. Hagiographic – (adj.), defining a biography or description of the lives of the saints. Hagiographic (n.) – saintliness. Anyway...
Three separate instances of NBA vulgarity have my Hogwarts in a knot today. First, Reggie Miller uses a crass profanity (the “T-word”) to describe an open three pointer. Thanks for proving that the Gentlemen’s Club atmosphere of the NBA is still its stock in trade. That comment had no business going out over the air. David Stern must be in spin...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – I’ll be reporting live today from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform here and at Cybergolf. As we break for a few minutes, it’s clear Roger Clemens’s credibility is eroding and his risk of perjury growing with every word. He has already been trapped several times by Committee members, despite repeated...
First, Steve Czaban has the read of the day regarding Dan Snyder’s hiring Jim Zorn to be the new head coach of the Washington Redskins. Dan Snyder is another boy king in the same line as Jim Dolan of New York Knicks and Tiennamen Square Garden infamy. Snyder is clumsily trying to buy a championship and is living vicariously through his players. All that will be...
One of the more intriguing prop bets for yesterday’s Super Bowl was this unexpected little nugget: “Which will be greater, the number of Tiger Woods birdies in the final round at Dubai or the number of Plaxico Burress receptions?” Tiger trounced him, carding nine birdies while Plax had a mere two catches. What’s that? Plax has ring and...
Filing that lawsuit may be the worst decision of Roger Clemens’s life. It was bad enough he tried to bully and intimidate a government witness, (not to mention run him out of money in a massive lawsuit), but when he alleged governmental misconduct, that made both sides of the aisle stand up and take notice. Congress is now demanding not only the tapes of BOTH...
I’ll make this short and sweet. Clemens filed suit against MacNamee for defamation this morning. He has simultaneously created an out from the thorny problem of dealing with the Congressional grilling. “Sorry, sir..but I have a lawsuit going and that’s the proper time and proper manner.” We were having this discussion somewhere else, so...
So Steve Czaban is starting to sound like the Awful Announcing guys. Czabe lambasted ESPN football “analysts” – who have a worse record than even the NYC tabloids at predictions – for nonsensical purported “analysis.” From the article: In other words, it’s nothing like REAL sports debates you would have with buddies over...