Len Berman

Emmy Award winning sportscaster and New York Times Bestselling Author

The ballpark has become a menagerie. What with scoreboards making so much noise, and telling fans to get louder. So I have to applaud the Texas Rangers. They want to ban the wave.

Len Berman

Emmy Award winning sportscaster and New York Times Bestselling Author

Normally, if your highest-paid player is injured, there's a steady drumbeat. When's he coming back? Then there's A-Rod. He hasn't played in a month after knee surgery, and nobody seems to notice.

Len Berman

Emmy Award winning sportscaster and New York Times Bestselling Author

I was a bit puzzled when Derek Jeter agreed to be the focus of an HBO special surrounding his 3,000th hit. It aired last night. But as with everything he does, he pulled it off with ease, humility and class.

Len Berman

Emmy Award winning sportscaster and New York Times Bestselling Author

To no one's surprise, the long monotonous NFL lockout ended with no games being missed, and nobody losing any money.

Vicki Larson

Journalist, mother, thinker

Gabriel Aubry is being a bad dad. Well, we don't know that for a fact; all we know is that actress Halle Berry, with whom the model had a daughter, no...

Michael Levy

Author, 'Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating With China's Other Billion'

Chinese tennis star Li Na is a red star on the rise. She has the tabloids eating out of her hands; she has sponsors running around in circles; most of all, she bucked a Communist system that desperately needs her.

Len Berman

Emmy Award winning sportscaster and New York Times Bestselling Author

The story that colorful wide receiver Terrell Owens may have blown out his knee taping a show for VH1 is just the latest in a long line of athletes who should have stayed in bed during the off season.

Natalie Pace

Author, 'The ABCs of Money' and 'You Vs. Wall Street'

Ah, those irreconcilable differences just keep dogging Peter Frampton. The 6X platinum selling artist, whose album "Frampton Comes Alive" was the top selling album of 1976, filed papers on June 24, 2011 to divorce his wife of 15 years, Christina Elfers.

Vivian Diller, Ph.D.

Psychologist and author, 'Face It'

With great fanfare, we recently said goodbye to two female media icons, Oprah Winfrey and Meredith Vieira. As they retired from their current roles on television, I wondered if others admired their farewells as much as I did.

Len Berman

Emmy Award winning sportscaster and New York Times Bestselling Author

I thought the U.S. Open would be a "Tiger-free zone," and then Rory McIlroy happened. His performance was so dominating that all anybody could talk about was Tiger Woods. Can Rory be the new Tiger?

Len Berman

Emmy Award winning sportscaster and New York Times Bestselling Author

Hotshot minor leaguer Bryce Harper hit a long homer. Instead of hustling out of the batter's box, he stood and admired it. If that wasn't bad enough, as he neared home, he blew a kiss to the opposing pitcher.

Sam Sommers

Professor, Tufts University; Author

We keep falling for it, don't we? As a spate of disillusioned facebook and twitter posts from the past 24 hours spells out, once again plenty of peop...

Robin Quivers

Anchor, 'The Howard Stern Show'

Can anyone tell me why so many famous and powerful men decide not only to take pictures of their private parts but to text, tweet and email them to people? How many men have to be caught before men actually learn from the guys who have gone before?

Len Berman

Emmy Award winning sportscaster and New York Times Bestselling Author

Shaquille O'Neal announced his retirement on Twitter. No tears. No fuss. Just a direct message to his fans. Next thing you know, sports commentators will be rendered obsolete.

Jason Pinter

Bestselling thriller writer

"I've already heard from people at ESPN who've gotten their hands on excerpts or in one case the whole book, and they were pleased, because they said it was an honest account, warts and all."

Len Berman

Emmy Award winning sportscaster and New York Times Bestselling Author

Mets owner Fred Wilpon's honest comments about his players are making the sports pages. On David Wright: "A really good kid. A very good player. Not a superstar."