Three or so years ago, during the U.S. Open, I wrote a column about American men’s tennis that kind of ticked off some people I worked with. They were big American tennis fans. And if you are something of a tennis fan, you might remember that was the U.S. Open the first week was basically…
Month: June 2014
Thoughts on Diving and Golf
The biggest sports story in the world over the weekend was probably the foul called when the Netherlands’ Arjen Robben fell to the ground after some sort of tangle with Mexico’s Rafa Marquez. The foul led to the penalty shot that led to the Netherlands stunning come-from-behind victory over Mexico. Replays, like art, will be…
Ratings and pastimes
The U.S.-Portugal game drew an astonishing 24.7 million people, when you add together the people who watched on ESPN and the people who watched on Univision. Throw in the people who watched the live stream, the number shoots to about 26 million. That is just about how many people watched the BCS National Championship game…
World Cup Tiebreaker Sudoku
All my life, I have loved trying to figure out sports tiebreakers. They are like sports sudoku puzzles or the impossibly addictive 2048 game which now takes up roughly 18 hour a day for me. Tiebreakers. Magic numbers. NFL playoff possibilities. This stuff has always been fun, and in this way (and in only this…
The Springsteen Song Hall of Fame
Well, you might remember — and “might” is the key word since I did this a long time ago — I put up a survey asking people to vote for their favorite Bruce Springsteen songs so that we could start the Bruce Song Hall of Fame. This was a two step process. In the first…
Hall of Fame Game Poll
So, I turned that Hall of Fame Game listed below into a survey. Might be fun to total up those results and see what we end up with.
Hall of Fame Game
Love the way the Bonds Hall of Fame discussion is going … lots of great thoughts and passion and I sense real effort to crystallize where our disagreements lie. With that, here’s a thought experiment: You have 10 players who put up EXACTLY the same numbers over their careers — clear cut, no doubt, all-time…
More Bonds Thoughts
So, I wanted to go a little bit deeper into my thoughts on Barry Bonds — we begin with the comments from Brilliant Reader Shagster: Bonds and Clemens chose to cheat. Then they made even worse choices to hide it. Like the rest of us they have to live with the consequences of their choices….
New PosCast … and a Barry Bonds thought
This week, Michael Schur and I are even more scattered than usual on the PosCast so it would be difficult for me to sum up this hour of madness. I will tell you that in Tony Gwynn’s honor we draft “pure hitters,” which are just like “regular hitters” only with more natural ingredients. Barry Bonds…
A Few Links and a Wrigley Request
A few links: — RIP Tony Gwynn, the artist. — Martin Kaymer may not have excited the masses with his romp at the U.S. Open. But I think it put him in prime position to do something no one since Tiger has done — become the TRUE best golfer in the world. — There is…