There’s been much talk of late about the decline in the numbers of African American major league baseball players. Commensurate with this trend has been the rise of the Latin ballplayer. Indeed, there are so many guys named Cabrera and Gonzalez on MLB rosters these days, it gets dizzying trying to keep them all straight. But after years of fairly halting progress, the major league ranks are
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
AFS (Adjusted for Steroids): A Sabermetric Approach to the Bonds Question
Posted on 12:01 PM by ergeg
The closer Barry Bonds gets to Hank Aaron’s home run record, the higher the hairs rise on the back of my neck. I keep trying to figure out if I’d be less agitated if Bonds was a nice guy. No matter. He seems to be such a surly SOB that it’s easy to let the resentment rise, where it will probably move easily into contempt. (If I’m wrong, Barry, and you’re really a sweetheart of a human being, then
Friday, May 18, 2007
The Good Stuff
Posted on 9:45 PM by ergeg
This is a mediawise site, with focus on print and electronic sports journalism, and so being critical is too often a big part of our mission. But every once in a while we like to focus on the strictly positive. This time out, we celebrate a personal story that helps to remind us of the good things—about family, people and sports. Sports Media America is proud to announce that Leo Joseph Brady,
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Oh Maryland, My Maryland—The 2007 Preakness Stakes
Posted on 6:58 PM by ergeg
[Editor’s Note: Intrepid L.A.-based handicapper Steve Brady gives Sports Media America readers the lowdown on the 132d running of the $1 million Preakness Stakes, Saturday, May 19, at Baltimore’s Pimlico Racetrack. NBC television carries the action beginning at 5 p.m. ET; post time is 6:05 p.m ET.] Man, those two weeks went fast. It seems it was just yesterday I was wiping my tears away with my
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Amy Lawrence Sucks
Posted on 4:01 AM by ergeg
The main problem women in electronic sports media have is credibility with men. When a TV or radio sports chick clearly is faking it...well, it’s like their orgasms: the sensitive male can spot it a mile away. Which leaves guys with a lot of post-coital sports reportage disappointment. Take Amy Lawrence, who I keep running into on ESPN Radio’s “GameNight,” or sometimes subbing for Bobby Valvano
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Race Shape and History Collide in 133d Kentucky Derby
Posted on 6:50 PM by ergeg
[Editor’s note: SMA’s Los Angeles correspondent and ace handicapper Steve Brady returns for an in-depth look at this year’s Run for the Roses. Steve is a devotee of Pace Pals, a handicapping system using cuddly cartoon figures—Rabbit, Fox, Hound and Turtle—that offers bettors a smart, speedy and useful method for sizing up the pace scenario of a race. Steve first described how to use Pace Pals
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
DRAFT SPECIAL Titans Brass Should Take a Lesson from the Past: Defense First
Posted on 9:54 PM by ergeg
The first life-affirming thrill I ever had as a football fan was in 1972, when my hometown Washington Redskins made it to the Super Bowl. It was the second year in George Allen’s tenure as Redskins head coach. Allen (left) came to the Redskins after a successful run as head coach of the Los Angeles Rams. The Redskins hadn’t been to the playoffs in about 30 years until 1971, Allen’s first year in
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