Have you noticed sports, politics and political correctness seem to be bumping into each other a lot lately?NCAA president Mark Emmert, whose office is in Indianapolis, where a basketball tournament of some note will be completed this week, was quick to jump on his high horse and head for high ...
It’s time for Major League Baseball to retire No. 21.This should be the last season in which any Major League player wears Roberto Clemente’s number.That’s right, No. 21 should belong to Clemente the way No. 42 belongs to the great Jackie Robinson. His number was retired in April of 1997, ...
Good for Dale Hansen.He’s a rarity in American sports media for a couple of reasons: His age and his guts. Hansen is 66 and looks it, and he is still working as a weeknight sports anchor in a major TV market.There aren’t a lot of old, chubby, bald people doing sports on local TV newscasts ...
Easy come. Easy go.What was the bigger story this week, Ben Roethlisberger signing a five-year contract extension for something in the neighborhood of $100 million or Steelers linebacker Jason Worilds announcing his retirement and walking away from $20 or $30 million?The story that affects the ...
Who do you like in the NCAA basketball tournament?I’m going to go with the team that has nine McDonald’s All-Americans on the roster and hasn’t lost a game.That would be your Kentucky Wildcats under the tutelage of the John Wooden of the 21st century, John “One-and-Done” Calipari. He ...
“Fight Golden Knights;Fight for the Green and the Gold;Fight to win this game.”Those are the first three lines of my high school’s fight song. The nickname since changed to Rebels, but otherwise, the lyrics stayed the same.I’m afraid to ask if it’s still called a fight song.In a ...
