One of the most valuable commodities for any major league baseball team to have is good left-handed pitching. Today I am listing my choices for the five top left-handed starting pitchers of all time. I did not include players from baseball’s old “dead ball” era like Eddie Plank and Lefty Grove, since their stats are … Read More
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NHL – Top Five Goaltenders of All Time
Television today is loaded with various reality shows. They are everywhere and range from the interesting to the ridiculous. Another type of show that has become popular is the “list” show, where topics like “Best TV Moms Of All Time” or “Greatest One Hit Wonders of the ’80s” are covered, usually by a group of … Read More
Happy Birthday, Yogi Berra!
When you’re a sports fan, over the years you develop a “love” for the teams you follow in each sport, and almost as much of a “hate” for the teams that are their rivals. As more and more time goes by, however, you come to realize that that “hate” grows into what is more of … Read More
NFL – A History of Draft Busts
The National Football League’s annual player draft is scheduled for later this week, and despite the fact that the league and its’ players are locked in a labor dispute, there is still plenty of excitement among fans as their teams add what are hopefully the missing pieces to becoming a competitive championship contender. Inevitably, some … Read More
NFL – March 28, 1984 – Dark Day In Baltimore
March 28, 1984 – Colts flee Baltimore in the dead of the night. March 28, 1984 was perhaps the darkest day in the sports history of the city of Baltimore. Twenty-seven years ago today, the people of that city woke up to the shocking news that in the middle of the night, Baltimore Colts’ owner … Read More
Jalen Rose, Grant Hill & The “Uncle Tom” Debate
ESPN’s Jalen Rose Two of the best things about ESPN are the “30 for 30” documentary films produced by the network and the First And Ten morning program, aired weekday mornings and featuring a debate desk segment where sportswriter Skip Bayless engages in lively arguments with guest debaters on timely sports topics. Recently, one of the films, … Read More
March Madness!
The annual NCAA college basketball tournament, better known as March Madness, gets underway this week, and productivity around offices will surely drop as workers tend to their brackets and keep tabs on opening round games. This tournament has grown into a monster, with a record 68 teams qualifying. The NCAA added “pre-qualifying” games to make teams from … Read More
R.I.P. Rick Martin
New Sabres’ owner Terry Pegula with the famed French Connection line – from left – Rene Robert, Rick Martin and Gilbert Perreault. Sunday was a sad day for Buffalo Sabres’ fans, and the organization, as the news of the passing of French Connection legend Rick Martin became public. Martin was a bonafide superstar in the … Read More
MLB – Willie, Mickey and The Duke
Duke Snider Major League Baseball lost another of its’ major icons on Sunday when Edwin “Duke” Snider passed away at the age of 84. Snider was lucky enough to have played in what is considered baseball’s golden era of the 1940s and 1950s, in what was the hub of the sport at the time, … Read More
NFL – Super Bowl III – The Game That Changed The Game
Pro Football HOF Super Bowl III Display The Games That Changed The Game is the title of a book written by Ron Jaworski, chronicling games over the years in which creative, innovative coaches like Sid Gillman and Bill Walsh introduced wrinkles that changed the way the game was played. I haven’t read the … Read More