Category: Other

other

Tennis

Safin and Federer: A Three-and-a-Half Year letdown

Post author By bsd987
Post date July 4, 2008
2 Comments on Safin and Federer: A Three-and-a-Half Year letdown

Now I know what three and a half years feel like. Of course, I’d rather not have this feeling, not yet, but there’s no denying it.

In 2005 at the Australian Open, Roger Federer and Marat Safin played one of the greatest tennis matches of all time with Safin upsetting the world’s number one ranked player 9-7 in the fifth set. For four hours and 28 minutes, two of the best players in the world dueled, playing some remarkable tennis for a spot in the Australian Open final. Safin’s victory of Aussie Lleyton Hewitt in the finals was almost a letdown after the semifinal.

And so too was today’s semifinal.

Tennis

Glimpse of Greatness

Every now and then we are surprised by greatness. Usually it comes from redundant people and we expect it: from Tiger Woods and Tom Brady, Kobe Bryant and Albert Pujols.

Sure, these people don’t always succeed, but when we see their greatness, we can only admire it.

General Sports

Why The NFL is the Most Popular Sport in America

Post author By mfitz
Post date June 25, 2008
6 Comments on Why The NFL is the Most Popular Sport in America

Revenue sharing, salary caps and the vision of a few men many years ago has turned the NFL into the most popular sport in America.

Tags football, MLB, NFL

General Sports

BASEBALL CAN’T AFFORD TO AVOID CHANGE ANY LONGER

Post author By tha writur
Post date June 25, 2008
No Comments on BASEBALL CAN’T AFFORD TO AVOID CHANGE ANY LONGER

Honestly, Major League Baseball is so stubborn when it comes to change, but that may be about to change.

A profession set so deep in its ways that a bitter woman is more prone to change her view of men. Yeah, it is that bad especially when we live in an age where technological advances have made life easier. Not just everyday living, but sports as well with the NFL, NBA and NHL, which have all implemented instant replay to get the call right.

Tags instant replay, rodriguez, umpires

All Other Sports

American Horse Racing’s Biggest Gamble

Post author By BillB159
Post date June 25, 2008
2 Comments on American Horse Racing’s Biggest Gamble

There will be a lot of gambling done on Belmont Stakes Day: millions of dollars will be won and lost at tracks all across the country. But the biggest gamble will be taken by the sport itself. Barely a month after the death of Eight Belles, racing will go all-in, betting on the injured hoof of Big Brown and hoping for the big score every bettor wishes for.

The satisfaction of that score has already diminished; Big Brown’s story is not as heartwarming as local legend Smarty Jones’s, nor is his trainer a big ol’ teddy bear you can root for. There are no Frances Genters to accept the trophy if he wins; Big Brown is owned by what is basically a hedge fund of investors. And then there is the issue of his sore feet; the quarter-crack he currently has may not be a big deal to his connections, nor to his doctors, but it is a news story that scares the bejeezus out of most of the folks that will tune in to ABC on Saturday.

What if he breaks down?

Tags belmont stakes, big brown, horse racing

Golf

Why The PGA Tour Will Suffer In Woods’ Absence

Post author By mfitz
Post date June 25, 2008
1 Comment on Why The PGA Tour Will Suffer In Woods’ Absence

We all know that Tiger Woods’ absence will negatively impact the PGA Tour but few have actually taken a step back to examine exactly why his absence will have such a huge impact on the Tour.

Tags Golf, pga, tiger woods

General Sports

The Absolute Hard Evidence a Player Uses Steroids

Post author By djcfla1
Post date June 23, 2008
No Comments on The Absolute Hard Evidence a Player Uses Steroids

By David J. Cohen

Since the steroid cloud has polluted athletics fans everywhere have debated whether certain players are steroid users. Did Barry Bonds improve ten hat sizes in four years or did he hit his head really really hard one day? Did Slamming Sammy get his power from giving grace to the lord or by slamming some needles into his body? Is Shawn Merriman now just lights out or is he still juiced up? With many players the glaring signs are there but there is no tangible proof. And unless a player couldn’t cover up, wrote a book, or hired the worst lawyer in America it would always remain a debate. Until now.

Tags barry bonds, football, MLB, performance enhancing drugs, roger clemens, sammy sosa, shawn merriman, steroids

Golf

Tiger- and nothing else

Tiger. I have nothing else to say. Nothing.

Monday at Torrey Pines, going head-to-head with the world’s 158th ranked golfer, Tiger Woods officially earned the designation of the greatest golfer of all time.

All Other Sports

Hypocrisy in Bristol

Few things in sports go hand-in-hand as well as ESPN and hypocrisy.

Sure, there are the high-profiled bashings of spring college football two days before ESPN decides to send Gameday to the University of Florida’s spring game. And then there is ESPN’s talk of high journalistic standards, the same standards that lead one of its primary writers to announce that Les Miles had accepted the head coaching position at the University of Michigan just an hour before he publicly announced that he had not taken the job.

General Sports

Everybody must get stoned….

Post author By mw2828
Post date June 4, 2008
No Comments on Everybody must get stoned….

I am equal parts fascinated and repulsed by human behavior. Looking back on it, this guy may have been better served pursuing a degree in psychology, as opposed to journalism.

There exists an intangible, and often irrational, tendril implanted in every single human decision, and my own thought processes are hardly excluded. All too often, our well-furbished facades and fortified insecurities are precisely what land us in intellectual quagmire, where rationality has long departed from the breakfast menu.

Buzz Bissinger, a superb writer by any measure, apparently stepped into a phone booth before appearing on an HBO Special examining American Journalism, transforming from Pulitzer Prize winner to indignant minister, preaching a fiery sermon denouncing blogs.