It's hard to let go. This is the first weekend without NFL football until August, and yes, while we will have the XFL to distract us beginning this weekend, it likely won't fill the bill. Either way, we have a few thoughts on the season that was and the off-season that will be: Illness ...
They used to call them rebuilding years. The obvious inference was that a team’s talent level had sunk to a certain depth that it needed to stock up on better players before declaring itself a legitimate contender. Then someone coined the term bridge year. The murky inference there is that ...
Some stray thoughts from the world of sports as I ponder if someone has told Kyle Shanahan the bad news – the two timeouts he took to the locker room with him at halftime of the Super Bowl are now gone for good. He is never getting them back. That man, along with being a pathetic in-game ...
It is the busiest day of the year for pizzerias and sub shops around America, so that means any sports scribe worth his coffee-stained shirt needs to weigh in on who will rule the National Football League as its champion once the party tables feature little more than crumbs. It’s a little ...
Where are the Boston Bruins and Boston Celtics right now? We need them badly. Barraged by Brady banter. Maligned by the Mookie mess. And worst of all, forced to watch a Patriots-starved Super Bowl, the New England sports fan clamors for something to believe in. But which team do you ...
Having had to fire the manager on whose desk the buck stopped in their sign-stealing scandal, the Houston Astros decided to sketch their future on a completely blank slate, starting fresh, proclaiming a new, exciting era for their fans, their city and the baseball world itself. They hired ...
