The 2008 Major League Baseball season is now well underway, so much so that broadcasters tend to get bored already and search around for anything else sports-related about which to pontificate; last weekend, as I recall, it was the NFL draft. Heaven forfend we stick to one sport at a time, after all. Or that…
You might not have realized it, but this is the time of year when more Americans engage in more illegal activity than just about any other. Nope; it’s not drunk driving or tax cheating, it’s March Madness… and the crime is called gambling. Studies suggest March Madness is the high school student’s portal to gambling….
Never one to miss a promotional tie-in, Marvel.com has posted a rundown of the publisher’s greatest moments in sports. The "Marvelous Moments in Sports" roundup was clearly written before the big game, because it lacks the sorrowful tone one might expect from a post-game writeup by New England Patriots fan Ben Morse. In fact, it’s…
No, not Stan Lee, his 87th birthday isn’t until December 2009. Today is the birthday of Hall of Famer Stan Musial, #6 for the St. Louis Cardinals with a .331 lifetime batting average, and a man so respected in the game that Brooklyn Dodgers fans never booed him at Ebbets Field. Happy birthday to the…
Fifty years ago today, Walter O’Malley announced that the Dodgers were moving from Brooklyn, New York to Los Angeles, California. Not that we know people who are BITTER about that sort of thing, oh no. But just ask any Brooklyn Dodgers fan this question: You’re in a room with Hitler, Stalin and Walter O’Malley and…
The idea of sports comics has always appealed to me. I wish we had more of them. Okay, any of them. Sports is such a great method of portraying action without having the characters fight each other (by only having them metaphorically fight). But Japan, with its vast array of comics subject matter, has the…
