It was no accident
Crossposted at SCSU Scholars: Was it an accident that Jackie Robinson was picked by the Dodgers to break the color barrier in professional baseball? Reflecting …
Crossposted at SCSU Scholars: Was it an accident that Jackie Robinson was picked by the Dodgers to break the color barrier in professional baseball? Reflecting …
Integrity. Sport is based upon the principle of a fair contest. A fair contest requires two players or teams to compete on an even footing, …
So much for the leisurely 18 month period for exploring their options. Recent reports indicate that the Big Ten expansion timetable has gone into overdrive. …
In his latest post Brian Goff notes that top seeds in this year’s tournament had some trouble putting away their lower ranked opponents and that …
I would like to offer a couple of postscripts to Skip’s Post-Mortem on the U.S. performance in the World Cup. 1. Although the results differed, …
It’s Ashes times again, the historic cricket contest between England and Australia played every two years, alternating between the two nations. Australia have long dominated …
When I first saw remarks like those I’m about to quote, I let it pass with an oblique comment (in the Portsmouth post from last …
College athletes, themselves, are prohibited from collecting their value. But that value accrues, nonetheless. Most would agree that the excess of a college player’s marginal …
Skip had an interesting post on doping last week that prompted more discussion in the comments. I have been working on several research projects related …
The Sports Business Journal recently published “Clubs give winter homes a branding boost” about the partnership between MLB franchises and their spring training homes. There …
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