Top 5 Sports Stories
Collected here are my Top 5 best and worst sports stories of the year.
Collected here are my Top 5 best and worst sports stories of the year.
Len Berman | Posted 12.23.2009 | New York
Here's a warning to wayward athletes and other denizens of the sports world. Word is that the launch of TMZsports.com is right around the corner. That's not good news if you misbehave.
Len Berman | Posted 12.22.2009 | New York
In Monday night football, the Giants awaken and roll over Washington 45-12. Where was this team all season?
Len Berman | Posted 12.21.2009 | New York
And then there was one. The Saints were beaten by the Cowboys for their first loss of the season. That leaves the Indianapolis Colts as the only undefeated team in the NFL at 14-0.
Len Berman | Posted 12.15.2009 | New York
Tag Heuer watches said yesterday they'll continue with Tiger Woods because his personal life isn't their business. Later in the day it apparently became their business.
ESPN Boston | Posted 12.14.2009 | Sports
John Lackey traveled to Boston for a physical exam Monday, and a baseball source said the Red Sox are making progress toward an agreement with the fre...
Michael Pina | Posted 12.10.2009 | Sports
A $300 million dollar perfect storm is brewing. One that will help the rich get richer and keep the poor mucking around their farm systems.
Len Berman | Posted 12.10.2009 | New York
California Congressman Joe Baca says forget about that legislation that he proposed to honor Tiger Woods with a Congressional Gold Medal. Good call, Joe.
Len Berman | Posted 12.04.2009 | New York
There will never be another feel good football story out of Hofstra like wide receiver Wayne Chrebet overcoming all odds to make the Jets. Hofstra has eliminated football.
Steve Buckley | Posted 12.04.2009 | Sports
I have yet to make the acquaintance of a Boston sports fan who, having witnessed six championships in a little more than six years, is capable of sitting back and saying, "OK, I'm good."
Len Berman | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York
Ireland's demand is rejected that their World Cup qualifying loss to France be replayed. France won the game thanks to a handball. Baseball umpires are relieved that for once it wasn't their fault.
Jonah Keri | Posted 11.19.2009 | Sports
As expected, the baseball cognoscenti has gone ga-ga for Tyler Kepner's New York Times piece on AL Cy Young winner Zack Greinke. And why not?
Len Berman | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
Are the Knicks interested in 34-year old free agent Allen Iverson? His best days are behind him, so the answer is probably yes.
Bruce Tenenbaum | Posted 11.05.2009 | Entertainment
Read the sports pages today and you'll find a whole lot of jealous Yankee haters moaning and whining about the Yankees' payroll. But business is the business of America.
Av Sinensky | Posted 11.05.2009 | Comedy
Sources inside the Yankees revealed late last night that they will be holding a press conference to announce that they have acquired the rights to the Florida Marlins' 2003 World Series Championship.
Len Berman | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York
It's a mess in Washington and we're not talking politics, it's the Redskins. The organization is blaming the media -- if it would stop printing the NFL standings, fans would have no idea the team stinks.
Len Berman | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York
Let's make marathons more interesting. How about crawling through windmills? We could combine the very best that marathon racing and miniature golf have to offer.
Robert E. Murphy | Posted 10.14.2009 | Entertainment
Major league baseball players simply make far, far too much money for the good of the game and its fans.
Len Berman | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York
A golfer in South Carolina went to retrieve his ball from a pond. An alligator bit off part of his arm. Your wet ball just isn't that valuable.
Michael Conniff | Posted 10.08.2009 | Denver
I can't wait to get back to Denver, Aspen, and the West -- the wide open spaces and really cool place, the wildlife, the rivers, the mountains, the light. I won't be allergic to anything once I get off the plane.
Brian Ross | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media
Let us finally put to rest one myth: Ted Williams was not frozen by his evil son, John Henry Williams.
Len Berman | Posted 11.30.2009 | New York
At Texas Tech the coach has banned all of his players from tweeting after one of his linebackers tweeted that the coach was late for a meeting. Doesn't the First Amendment guarantee freedom of tweech?
AP | GLEN JOHNSON | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
BOSTON — Curt Schilling, the former major league pitcher who won the allegiance of Bostonians by leading the Red Sox to the 2004 World Series, s...
Len Berman | Posted 09.24.2009 | New York
The video screens at the new Cowboys Stadium are the 8th wonder of the world. They are 60 yards long and stretch from 20-yard line to 20-yard line. Cost? $40-million.
AP | HOWARD ULMAN | Posted 09.24.2009 | New York
BOSTON — CC Sabathia against Josh Beckett loomed as a low-scoring duel between two of baseball's best pitchers. Neither lived up to the hype, e...
Len Berman | Posted 12.24.2009 | New York