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AP / Reed Saxon |
The story of Frank and Jamie McCourt, who turned the Dodgers into their own piggy bank, lived a life of mortgaged royalty and then decided to destroy one another, is like something out of Tom Wolfe.
Posted on Sep 27, 2010
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AP / Disney / Matt Stroshane |
In the 10 months from September to July, at least two of the four major leagues are playing. In July and August, we’re on our own and the Big Paparazzo does what it does when it has nothing ... guess at something, blow it up, project from it and comment on it.
Posted on Aug 22, 2010
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AP / Frank Franklin II |
The Boss didn’t leave his heirs a baseball team but a financial empire that can never be rivaled, villains you can depend on and a legacy like Sherman’s to Georgia.
Posted on Aug 4, 2010
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ESPN |
Going bonkers, lionizing winners and dumping on losers is fun, even if the cycle is accelerating to absurdity and beyond with modern 24/7 reportage. That’s today’s price of fame. Privileged as they are, today’s starry-eyed young athletes pursue their dream through a driving shitstorm.
Posted on Jul 7, 2010
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AP / Julie Jacobson |
Baseball has always proceeded according to the law of the jungle with the Yankees as King Kong, but in the past even they never dominated financially as they do now.
Posted on May 19, 2010
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AP / Gene J. Puskar |
If the conduct of sports stars represents “values,” there never were any. In any case, it’s better to raise your kids yourself.
Posted on Apr 25, 2010
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AP / David J. Phillip |
Tiger Woods is finally getting on with his life, not that Tiger’s life can ever be what it was when he was the unquestioned, untainted, most famous, most admired, richest, greatest athlete of all time. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what he was raised to aspire to.
Posted on Apr 8, 2010
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AP / Matt Sayles |
The NCAA Tournament is the highest-level single-elimination event in basketball, making it special. Nevertheless, in the Big Dance’s present incarnation, other words come to mind, like bloated, over-commercialized and bland.
Posted on Apr 1, 2010
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AP / Mikhail Metzel |
In the wake of the just-concluded Winter Games—aka They Can Even Sell This Stuff?—it’s amazing to think how little was left of the Olympic movement in 1984, when it crawled into Los Angeles on its last legs.
Posted on Mar 11, 2010
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AP / Eric Draper |
This just in: With all forgiven, Mark McGwire makes Hall of Fame. Who knows, it may even happen in his lifetime.
Posted on Feb 11, 2010
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