Steve McNair is gone and I almost want to cry. The man who provided thrill after thrill for Tennessee Titans fans—including taking the team to Super Bowl XXXIV—is now a Baltimore Raven, a situation fraught with irony and reeking a little from the stench of his now-former team's callous, all-business approach to the whole affair. In recent years, McNair (pictured left, then, and right, now) was
Friday, June 9, 2006
Thursday, June 8, 2006
Rabbits and Foxes and Hounds, Oh My!!! How the Pace Scenario Will Affect the Belmont Stakes
Posted on 1:19 AM by ergeg
By Steve Brady Several months ago, I got tired of public handicappers making my selections for me. Up until then, I’d open up the Daily Racing Form (DRF) and see who the consensus selection was, or I’d listen to the guys on the “Thoroughbred Los Angeles” radio show, and write down all their “hot picks.” Sure, they sometimes had good information about a horse, but more often that not, they were
Saturday, June 3, 2006
Poor Black Kids Can't Afford to Attend Major League Baseball, So Why Would They Want to Play a Game They Know Nothing About?
Posted on 2:25 AM by ergeg
"Where are black ballplayers?" asked the headline in Bob Nightengale's USA TODAY story of June 2. It's a damn interesting question, and the story, while pointing out that African Americans constitute only 8% of the Major League Baseball workforce—down from the 27% of 1975—doesn't really provide a satisfactory answer. Apparent reasons are cited in a swirl of vague conjecture by baseball brass, but
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
A MOTO's Guide to the Preakness
Posted on 6:54 PM by ergeg
By Steve Brady A couple of months ago, there was a very large Pick 6 carryover at Santa Anita that I thought I’d try to take down. (Winning the Pick 6 is slightly better odds than winning the Super Lotto. It requires picking the winners of the last six races of the day. If no one succeeds on that given day, the money in the pool carries over to the next day.) It was a Thursday and I slipped out
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Finding an Oasis in Nashville's Jock Radio Landscape
Posted on 7:26 AM by ergeg
Jock radio in Nashville isn't so good. That is to say, it could be greatly improved upon. There's 104.5-FM The Zone, primarily a conduit for FOX Sports. There's 106.7-FM The Fan, which means primarily ESPN Radio. And then there's SportsRadio WNSR 560-AM, which mixes original local programming with feeds from Sporting News Radio. There are swampy sinkholes throughout this landscape. Sports freaks
Tuesday, May 9, 2006
Pacman's Latest Escapades Create More PR Nightmares for Titans
Posted on 9:22 AM by ergeg
Public altercations involving unsavory characters. Suspicious automobiles. Guns. Cocaine. Huge amounts of cash. What sounds like the teaser for a forthcoming episode of “Law & Order” is actually a slice from the life of Tennessee Titans defensive back Adam (“Pacman”) Jones. Last year’s #1 Titans draft choice (pictured, left) was a PR nightmare from the beginning. In summer 2005 he held out from
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Immigration's Great if You're Pedro Martinez, but the Rest Is a Mess
Posted on 10:53 PM by ergeg
Where would American sports of the past 50 years be without immigrants? The face of American baseball has been radically altered in the past decades by the influx of gifted Hispanics. European basketball players are definitely the hottest trend in the NBA. NFL football sees less of this but there are a few exceptions, with African nationals seeming to be the most prevalent new group of players.
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