The 2009-10 NBA season began with Allen Iverson -- the Answer -- playing for the Memphis Grizzlies. After coming off the bench for three games, though, Iverson and the Grizzlies decided to part ways. And then a few days ago, Iverson announced his retirement.

Iverson's commitment to retirement, though, seems...

The 2010 Winter Olympics commence in nearly two months, and the 2010 election is just under a year away. Recently, I've been contemplating the parallels between the two, particularly regarding what political candidates and Olympic athletes must endure on their quests through qualifying events and life long endeavors. Both...

Is the NFL taking its Thanksgiving fans for granted? It seems that year after year, the Thanksgiving Day schedule features lousy matchups and even lousier outcomes. This year, America was treated to three supremely boring football games. Detroit was beaten into submission by the Packers, Dallas hammered Oakland, and the...

When it comes to independent, agitational journalism, the standard is Amy Goodman and her radio/television institution, Democracy Now! Goodman and her staff often find themselves accosted by officials, foreign and domestic. This happened again on Thursday. But it didn't happen in East Timor or Burma. Goodman was detained by...

Thanksgiving Thursday is over, and now it's time to shop. For those of you who are out there this weekend taking advantage of the big sales and kicking our economy into gear, here are a few big ticket items you might consider buying in honor of this Sunday's Bucs game...

For the last ten years, I have begun my Sports Law course at Northeastern University School of Law with an imagined email from the University president. He would ask for my advice as to whether the institution should make the investment to place Northeastern football on a par with Boston...

The NFL has issued new initiatives regarding head trauma which include independent medical evaluations, evaluations of playing rules and equipment, safer practice guidelines and public service messages, an important moment in the evolution of this percolating "concussion issue".

The initiatives originate from recent events including:
(1) Congressional hearings where...

In the New York Times, economist Richard Thaler discussed Swoopo.com, a so-called “entertainment shopping” site.  The premise is relatively simple and somewhat diabolical.  Unlike normal auctions sites such as eBay—which operates as a modified second price auction—Swoopo.com bidders pay to place each bid in addition to...

The late, brilliant author F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote there are no second acts in American lives. Despite having a Canadian point guard and two bench players from Brazil and Slovenia, the Phoenix Suns are currently pushing as hard as possible to make Fitzgerald's famous aphorism a false prophesy.

With...

I think it's safe to say that anybody who is familiar with my writing is well aware that I very publicly experience extreme highs and lows each week--sharing those moments with you are the best part of being Bills Chick (and they might function as a type of therapy, too)....

All NBA fans know Kobe, LeBron, DWade, and Dirk are great players. In today’s post we want to put the spotlight on some of the NBA’s unsung heroes. As you probably know, we believe in evaluating players based on Adjusted +/-. An Adjusted +/- rating of +10 for Player A,...

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D - CA) recently joined me on my radio show. The interview was primarily focused on the October 28th NFL Congressional Hearing and her questioning Commissioner Roger Goodell. We also briefly discussed health care reform and the House Ethics Committee investigating her.

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You know, it did a heart good to see the Bucs' QB-of-the-Future out there on the field this Sunday. He took charge, he made plays, he inspired confidence in his team. It's the kind of performance that made you think, hey, now that was a great draft pick. Some might...

As all baseball fans know, the weeks following the end of the World Series are highlighted by the "hardware" season - the bestowing by the Baseball Writers Association of America of individual achievement awards in the American and National Leagues for everything from outstanding fielding by position (the Gold Glove...

Green Bay fans, it looks like there's hope after all. With this week's 30-24 win over the San Francisco 49ers, the Pack is back in the thick of the playoff race. Albeit, we're gunning for a Wild Card spot, since it appears as though Judas Favre and the Minnesota Vikings...

From Lemoyne to Boeheim's 800th, the Syracuse Orange basketball team dominated the early storylines of college basketball.

Don't expect it to stop anytime soon.

Syracuse put together such an impressive display in the 2K Sports Coaches vs. Cancer Classic, they jumped to 10th in the AP...

On Sunday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell made a startling concession to medical ethics, one resisted by all of his predecessors. Goodell said that when a player sustains a concussion, teams will now be required to seek advice from "independent" neurologists. As the commissioner said on NBC's Football Night in...

I'm sure by now most everyone is tired of discussing Bill Belichick's decision from last weekend. But after watching the discussion amongst guys like Tom Jackson and Mike Ditka on the four-letter network yesterday and reading a recent post by the same network's Bill Simmons (that, as my esteemed...