Ryan Braun or Major League Baseball, who do you trust?
Once again, the nation's sports media has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that they are always in a sports league's pocket. The fact that Ryan Braun has won his appeal of a drug test has flipped...
View ArticleMayor and point guard Johnson's major assist in the Sacramento arena saga
It is a good thing Kevin Johnson learned all about leadership and that as a basketball player you always have to listen to the ultimate boss. Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson played in the National...
View ArticleMajor League Baseball is a business
The Major League Baseball season opens in a matter of days and Lance Berkman opened up an interesting discussion about how the commissioner, Bud Selig, used extortion to get Houston Astros owner Jim...
View ArticleGender and corporate discrimination alive and well at The Masters
It is April and one of the most important golf tournaments is taking place in Augusta, Georgia. The Masters Tournament is one of the big golf events on the calendar because someone decided back in the...
View ArticleElected officials and the need to spend public money on sports venues
Have American politicians lost sight of priorities and has sports become so important that city and state governments are willing to put up billions of dollars for what is little more than...
View ArticleThe NFL Draft, celebrating the restraint of the free market
In 1987, Bill Daughtry and I hosted a one-off cable television show called "Between the Lines." It was a sports business conversation, the kind of dialogue that cable TV, sports talk radio and...
View ArticleMunicipal sports spending is out of hand
There is something about sports which triggers the brain to go into irrational mode. Despite all of the financial problems associated with the 2004 Athens Olympics, politicians and business leaders in...
View ArticleJunior Seau's death? Another football statistic?
I didn't know Junior Seau although I met him on the day he was drafted into the National Football League in 1990 and probably interviewed him after a football game a few times more. From all accounts...
View ArticleSports owners are the new royalty
There was a video on the Minneapolis Star Tribune's website that may have summed up what sports is all about these days in the United States and globally. A man dressed in a purple Minnesota Vikings...
View ArticleWhy Steve Bartkowski is suing the NFL
Steve Bartkowski, a newly elected member of the National Football Foundation's College Hall of Fame, is one of hundreds of former National Football League players who are suing their former employers...
View ArticleIs Football under siege?
In 1905, United States President Theodore Roosevelt used the power of the bully pulpit by ordering the President of Harvard, Yale and Princeton to the Oval Office so that the heads of the three...
View ArticleThe Chester, Pennsylvania soccer stadium disaster
Feeling vindication is a doubled edged sword. On one hand, it is easy to say I told you so but on the other hand, you don't want innocent people to be hurt because a group of politicians thought...
View ArticleHow NBC ended Qatar's Olympic bid for the 2020 Summer Games
So the Olympics is nothing more than just a TV show that would have trouble competing with other sports, entertainment and politics if the Summer Olympics took place in October rather than in July? It...
View ArticleThe baseball writers v. Roger Clemens
American journalism doesn't produce very much these days. Time Warner is in the process of cutting writers and others at Sports Illustrated, a magazine that seems to only be relevant in the early...
View ArticleThe NFL and American Football Not on the Same Field as Euro 2012
National Football League owners would love to establish a beachhead in Europe but if that will be a daunting task as Europe’s sports attention turned to the Union of European Football Association’s...
View ArticleThe NFL is a monopoly whether you like it or not
Back in 1986, while testifying during the United States Football League-National Football League antitrust trial, then National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle explained how his league along...
View ArticleThis space for rent
There really wasn't much of an uproar from sports fans when it was announced that a low level soccer team, FC New York, was planning to plaster Mitt Romney's name on the front of the club...
View ArticleThe IOC wrong again. Munich victims should be honored
You can always count on the International Olympic Committee to be on the wrong side of common decency. The group, which has permanent observer status--a designation that only the Vatican at the United...
View ArticleAmerican sports is government built whether you like it or not
One of the silliest slogans that has been uttered in Presidential politics this summer has been the "you didn't build that" line. It was an attempt by the incumbent President Barack Obama to point out...
View ArticleModell deserves better from Cleveland "fans"
It is a rather sad commentary that football fans in Cleveland are apparently too immature or too disrespectful that the Cleveland Browns organization cannot remember the memory of the late Arthur B....
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