Leading up to this year’s NBA trade deadline (which just passed, for those of you who aren’t sports fans… which does bring to mind the question of why you’d bother to read this blog about sports if you don’t even like sports in the first place. I mean, hell, the thing says sports right at the top of the page and everything – it’s not like… oh god, I just realized I’m still in parentheses. … Click here to keep reading ->>
Over a long sports journalism career I’ve enjoyed watching the changes and ebb and flow of not only sports competition and athletes, but also the evolving business side of sports. When I started in sports, a $100,000 athlete contract was considered a king’s ransom, and if you got 3 million dollars for sports broadcast rights, you were really a big time sport. Now, sports broadcast rights are in the billions and athletes won’t … Click here to keep reading ->>
I love athletics but have always wished that high school coaches received the plaudits on a national level they deserve. The majority of high school athletes do not go on to play at the collegiate level, thus their last chance to be mentored in a team environment is the high school level.
Four Stages of Fan Frustration Brett Favre is getting on my last nerve. I am a Green Bay fan and have been since before birth. Favre, one of our greatest players, is again acting strangely, which brings my Packer-hating “friends” great satisfaction. I have run out of ways to explain his actions. I am officially a Frustrated Fan.