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The Baseball Park Tour – Phase I

To celebrate my son’s graduation from high school, we decided to spend some time this summer touring baseball parks around the country.  While it would be great to align our schedule with that of the Red Sox, practically speaking, it doesn’t make sense.  Since teams generally play 3 games in each city they visit, following [...]

Recent Reading

Power Play by Joseph Finder – I came across Power Play while cruising through some thrillers at a book store.  Having read Finder’s Paranoia a few years ago and remembering how much I enjoyed it, I picked it up and consumed it quickly.  A very fun and fast read.  I guess it would be called [...]

The Percentage of a Sport’s Revenue Taken Home by its Athletes

This month’s Tennis magazine has an article discussing the fact that tennis players feel their sport should “share” more of its profits (the article uses revenues and profits haphazardly) with its players.  Apparently, tennis players feel like the low man on the totem pole, only taking home 26% of the revenue (not profits, which would [...]

Leadership the Bobby Orr Way

In this week’s Sports Illustrated, there is an article about Bobby Orr.  For those who don’t know who Orr is, he is currently one of the top hockey player agents in North America.  More importantly, for those who don’t know who Orr was, he was, arguably, the greatest hockey player ever.  He was certainly the [...]

Is Football an Eastern (U.S.) Sport?

Watching the Super Bowl yesterday, it struck me that it’s been a while since a West Coast team has taken home the Lombardi Trophy.  While I was pretty sure I could remember the last 20 Super Bowl winners or so, I looked up the winners this decade just to check my facts . . . [...]

The Inside Scoop at the New Yankee Stadium

My son and I traveled to the Bronx this past weekend to say goodbye to the “House that Ruth Built,” watch the Yankees get their asses kicked by division-leading Tampa Bay and check out Derek Jeter and A-Rod’s new playground.

Before the game, we walked around the new stadium.  I shot a bunch of pictures, but [...]

When Amateurs Show Up the Pros

[Update: Mr. Gullible once again ignored the old adage - when it's too good to be true, it probably is.  Thanks to Ron and John who pointed out that this was, in fact, an ad for Gatorade that was never televised.  It's still very cool.  I wonder why it never got airtime outside of the [...]

Day 15 of the Tour de France

Who knew, right?  One of the biggest sporting events in the world and, potentially, the most grueling, and I can’t even watch it on TV.  My local cable provider has opted out.  Such a shame, it really is a terrific event, even if you’re not a cyclist.

Of course, the economics of carrying the event probably [...]

Russia Rejects Maria Sharapova . . . Sorta

Maria Sharapova is an immensely talented tennis player who, at 21 years of age, has 19 career titles, has been ranked as a top-ten player since Wimbledon 2004 and, in 2006, was the highest paid female athlete in the world.  Today, she was dismantled 6-2, 6-4 at Wimbledon in the third round by another Russian [...]

Boston Beats the Crap Out of L.A. to Take the NBA Championship

If you hadn’t yet heard, last night, the Boston Celtics beat the L.A. Lakers 131-92 in the sixth and final game of the 2008 NBA Championship.  A 39 point victory in the regular season is almost unheard of.  In the playoffs, it’s an embarrassment.  The Celtics not only won the championship, but made sure the [...]