(from USA Today Sports, May 1, 2013) How bad do the Chicago Cubs want a larger video board and additional signage at their ball field? They want it enough for Chicago’s chairman, Tom Ricketts, to threaten to move the ball club out of Wrigley Field if it does not get approved. The Cubs want approval […]
(from USA Today, April 17, 2013) After a long hiring cycle for head coaches and general managers, the NFL failed to produce a single hire of a minority candidate, but the league has decided to try something new. They will announce today their plan for a three day career development symposium. This is scheduled to take […]
(from The New York Times, April 2, 2013) Scott Boras, baseball’s most challenging negotiator, frequently takes big name players to free agency, and gets them every dollar possible in their new contract. It was with Boras that Robinson Cano rejected a contract extension from the New York Yankees before spring training. On Tuesday, however, Cano announced […]
(from USA TODAY, March 19, 2013) It seems everywhere Milwaukee Brewers’ outfielder, Ryan Braun, turns, there the Major League Baseball investigators are. They have been talking to his friends, talking to his associates, and digging through any paperwork they can find. Braun, the 2011 National […]
(from the New York Times, February 26, 2013) In the last two National Hockey League seasons hits to the head had become a topic of concern. Concussion talks were catalyzed after hockey star, Sidney Crosby, missed 60 games and went through a 14 month ordeal of problems related to a concussion. While the lockout carried […]
(from New York Times, October 31, 2012) Recently Connecticut women’s basketball coach, Geno Auriemma, proposed a new idea he has been considering. He wants to lower the rims on basketball goals in the women’s leagues by seven inches. Auriemma argues that a lower rim would create more offense and attract a greater number of fans. […]
(from New York Times, October 23, 2012) On the very first play of a pee wee game, two players were hit hard enough to be taken off the field. The game was being played between the Southbridge Pop Warner pee wees and the Tantasqua Braves. Players in this league were as young as 10, and for […]
(from New York Times, September 24, 2012) The only thing the Pittsburgh Pirates could find comfort in while taking the field this past Monday was the fact that the Mets knew their pain. The Mets had September collapses in 2007, 2008, and again this year. The Pirates, however, could be on their way to setting […]
(from New York Times, September 9, 2012) When it comes to baseball, the city of Washington knows about struggle. The joke about the city’s baseball is, “First in war, first in peace, and last in the American League.” Baseball franchises have left the city twice, but in 2004 Major League Baseball moved the Montreal Expos to […]
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