The Importance of Schedule Strength in Sports
The goal of my posts will be to show you how simple mathematical concepts can often lead to important insights about the burning sports questions of the day.
The goal of my posts will be to show you how simple mathematical concepts can often lead to important insights about the burning sports questions of the day.
You can bring out all the stars and stops, but at the end of the day, or season in this matter, LeBron is looking to join a winner. You can't put lipstick on the standings.
A new basketball documentary, Poet Pride, takes a look at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. This famed East Baltimore institution has produced some of the greatest basketball players in the country.
If public ownership were allowed, owners would be barred from moving teams from small markets where they were profitable - like Green Bay - into larger markets.
Netflix wll begin offering its Watch Instantly service through Nintendo's Wii. While rumors have been circulating, especially after Netflix reached ...
The Yanks are #1 in payroll, the Phillies #7. The only "low rent" team to make the postseason in 2009 was the Twins. The money gap continues to be a major flaw in baseball.
Le Bron James wants to dunk on G.W. Bush's ass, break the rim, and shatter the glass. The former President, never one to avoid biting off more than he can chew, issued a trash talking response.
But what's with the umpiring? The umps, in perfect position, blew two straight calls last night against Nick Swisher. I'm not in favor of replay in most cases. I am in favor of getting these umps eyeglasses.
Do Republicans have respect for the position of President of the United States only if it's a Republican in office?
I am excited because this is a whole lot further than we got to when I was in the White House health care war room in 1994. At every stage, I think progressives have the ability to make progress.
Last week on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, NBA star Tracy "T-Mac" McGrady and I had the chance to discuss the ongoing crisis in Darfur.
Even as a structured settlement consultant, I was stunned to learn that within two years of retirement, 78 percent of NFL players are bankrupt or under financial stress.
I feel a twinge of sadness that Lenny Dykstra is putting his 1986 Mets World Series ring on the auction block. Of course he's the one who plunged head-first into his financial mess, but ...
It's hard to listen to a filthy-rich man complain about the price of tickets for his enshrinement in his sport's hall of fame. But that, among other cringe-worthy moments is exactly what Michael Jordan did.
I've spent much of my life wondering why people who can handle a monthly paycheck will turn around and blow a large sum when they get the chance.
Professional athletes are constantly targeted by unscrupulous individuals for unsavory reasons, most of them financial.
Nowitzki should have at least gotten a decent lawyer to contact the court and set up her arraignment. It happens every day on matters far more serious, so it wasn't necessary to orchestrate her public arrest.
I find it disturbing that anyone, least of all an 18 year-old, would be subjected to forced gender testing in order to appease their competitors.
I had the pleasure of interviewing 12-year old Orren Fox of Newburyport, MA who happens to keep 25 backyard chickens.
Now that the king -- Al 'The Answer' -- has been deposed by age and circumstance, our sports world is, quite frankly, blander for it.
Though his latest album The Way I See It was released last year, Saadiq still is touring pretty much non-stop. He took a quick break from his schedule for this interview.