Skip’s post accurately reflects my feelings as part of Astro-dom (aka Astrodumb). When your main teams are the Rangers and Astros, these opportunities come around …

The college football season kicks off this weekend; every squad has a clean slate and most fans have rosy expectations regarding the fate of their …

Like him or loathe him, Bill Belechick flies his own path. His late fourth quarter decision to go for a first down rather than punt …

State budgets are under pressure everywhere, yet NFL teams still want more handouts. And politicians listen. Here is a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article on what …

From the Toronto Globe and Mail, an on-line voluntary poll asks, Now that talks have progressed, will you be happy to see the return of …

With the NFL approaching the business-end of the season, the strength of schedule becomes of increasing importance and an interesting feature of many leagues is …

George Will, iin his column in today’s WaPo: describes some of the realities of life for players in the South Atlantic League (The Sally League), …

The player’s union has just released the 2008 player salaries for Major League Soccer. The gulf between the “haves” and the “have nots” is simply …

Back when I was a graduate student, we did our econometrics assignments on punch cards and submitted the “jobs” to a computer desk. We were …

There is a game being played tonight in which the winning team will be paid $20 million and the losers paid nothing. This in itself …