You can look at where the Cleveland Indians are at this point of the major league baseball season in 2 different ways. A pessimist would say that after being swept by the Detroit Tigers and dropping to 4 1/2 games behind in the AL Central, that this is the point where they come crashing back … Read More
Author: admin
Classic Team Logo of The Day
Logo of a minor league baseball team that for one season was the royalty of the sport , the Queens Kings. They played one season, in 2000, as a member of the short-season Class A New York-Penn League, and were affiliated with the Toronto Blue Jays. The team relocated from St. Catharines, Ontario for the … Read More
Classic Sports Card of The Day
1963 Topps baseball card of one of the hardest throwing left-handed pitchers in baseball history, former Cleveland Indian Sam McDowell. “Sudden Sam” regularly led the American League in strikeouts during his career, and was an AL All Star six times. He battled alcoholism after his playing days ended but eventually got sober and worked as … Read More
NHL – Buffalo Sabres’ New Additions
Work constraints have kept me from updating this blog as much as I’d like to, and there are some topics I wanted to comment on that I never got a chance to, one of which is the Buffalo Sabres’ new status as one of the NHL’s big players in the free agent market. With football … Read More
Classic Team Logo of The Day
This is the brand new logo of the newest member of the National Hockey League, the “new” Winnipeg Jets. The “old” Jets were one of the WHA teams that were absorbed into the NHL, but the city lost that franchise when it moved to Phoenix in 1996. This incarnation of the Jets came to be when … Read More
Classic Sports Card of The Day
1988 Opeechee hockey card of former NHL player Scott Arniel, courtesy of www.CheckOutMyCards.com . Known as a “grinder” with some offensive skills, he carved out a solid 19 year career as a player, mostly with the old Winnipeg Jets and Buffalo Sabres. Arniel went into coaching after his playing days ended, winning a Coach of … Read More
NFL – Five Most Innovative Coaches of All Time
In an earlier football “list” post, I named my choices for the top 5 NFL head coaches of all time. This list is a bit different – my choices for the five most innovative head coaches of all time. Any of these could easily be included in the “top five” also, and would probably complete my … Read More
Classic Team Logo of The Day
Logo of the San Francisco Demons, a football team from the short-lived “XFL”, a springtime league started by wrestling promoter Vince McMahon in 2001. The club was originally known as the San Jose Demons but wound up playing in Pacific Bell Park in San Francisco. The team had the smallest stadium in the league, yet … Read More
Classic Sports Card of The Day
1970 Topps football card of former NFL defensive lineman Charles “Bubba” Smith, who passed away recently. Smith was the top overall draft pick of the Baltimore Colts in 1967, and played most of his NFL career with them. He played on the Colts’ Super Bowl winning team in 1971, but refused to wear his ring … Read More
NFL – Free Agent Frenzy
When the National Football League owners and players agreed on a new collective bargaining agreement recently, ending the lockout that wiped out the off-season and the Hall of Fame preseason game, it set off an unprecedented frenzy of team activity involving trades, cuts, and signings of both undrafted college grads and unrestricted free agents. It … Read More