Category: Columnists

By the time Lawrence Taylor was wrapping up his NFL Hall of Fame career with the New York Giants, I was still coloring wildly in the confinements of my elementary school class. By the time of his second arrest for buying crack cocaine in 1998, I was firmly entrenched in the halls of my high […]

One of the worst things about being an avid sports fan is that the older you get, the more respect you lose for your longtime love. You begin to notice all the fluff and bluff that goes along with high-dollar athletics, and the events around which your weekends were scheduled become afterthoughts on your agenda. […]

Call me Nostradamus. A couple of years back I told a colleague that the Los Angeles Lakers would run the NBA’s Western Conference for the next two or three seasons. They were fresh off their trade for Paul Gasol, and Kobe Bryant was the frontrunner for the NBA’s 2008 MVP Award. Their roster was littered […]

What message did the Pittsburgh Steelers send by booting one highly troubled player while retaining another? Inquiring minds would like to know. You hold onto a guy coming off back-to-back offseasons of sexual allegations, but trade a guy who’s coming off back-to-back seasons of drug charges. See the difference? Sex scandals and drugs often go […]

Not even a fantastic finish to the NCAA tournament (sigh, congrats, Duke) could trump the football news in D.C. So Daniel Snyder has done it to you guys again, huh, Redskins fans? Quirky guy, he is. After he leaves your heads drooped low to close the season, he vows he’s a changed man. Provides the […]

Wow! I definitely didn’t see that one coming. Who would’ve thought my hand-picked Kentucky Wildcats would’ve shot themselves out of the tournament with a 4-for-32 three-point display over the weekend? With three No. 1 seeds out, visions of an attractive “Final Four” were quickly diminishing. If not for Duke’s win over Baylor last Sunday, we […]

We sit next to our TV sets or pick up our morning papers and find the news that another millionaire, who is playing a game for a living, is on the road to self-destruction. What I find sad is the fact that those who are clean at the moment, so to speak, aren’t learning from […]

So now what? It’s officially week two of March Madness and unless you have Nostradamus somewhere in your name, your bracket is totally busted. I know you penciled in Georgetown, Kansas and Villanova as no-brainers to advance to the “Sweet 16.” And I know you laughed at the possibility of the Hoyas going out in […]