Playing minor league baseball has always been difficult with long bus rides and sleepless nights between stops. There is also a certain amount of anonymity that goes with being in the minors. A popular question from fans is “Who is that guy?” As I sat in the stands at Victory Field in Indianapolis, no one […]
The Mountain West media is expecting Boise State and San Diego State to meet for the conference title contest at the end of the season. Boise State is the top squad in the media poll for Mountain Division with Utah State in second. Colorado State is third, while Air Force is fourth. Wyoming and New […]
The recent induction of John Smoltz into the National Baseball Hall of Fame always brings the discussion of the trade that brought him to the Atlanta Braves. Many view it a lopsided deal, but was it? Smoltz was sent to the Braves from the Detroit Tigers for Doyle Alexander on Aug. 12, 1987. Yes, Smoltz […]
The members of the media that cover the PAC-12 selected defending champ Oregon and Southern Cal to claim division titles for the 2015 season. Oregon (13-2, 8-1), which lost in last year’s national championship tilt 42-20 to Ohio State, was picked to win the North ahead of Stanford (8-5, 5-4), California (5-7, 3-6), Washington (8-6, […]
TCU and Baylor are expected to lead the pack in the Big 12 as the 2015 season progresses. According the media covering the conference, TCU (12-1, 8-1) will finish in the top spot. “It’s about standing in between the lines, not getting too high or too low, either way,” TCU Head Coach Gary Patterson said […]
Frank Gifford was a part of my childhood. I never met the National Football League legend, but he became a weekly visitor to my house in the 1970s. His 1964 football card has been in my collection for about 40 years. While I laughed at Howard Cosell and Don Meredith on Monday Night Football, I […]
The top performances in Major League Baseball this week were by the Toronto Blue Jays and Carlos Carrasco of the Cleveland Indians. The Blue Jays have won eight games in a row with two of those being by new acquisition David Price winning two of them. In those two outings he had threw 15 innings […]
There are a lot of people today who claim that the pace baseball is slow. Just takes too much time and not enough action. Those people would have been happy to be at Navin Field when that afternoon’s contest lasted one hour and 13 minutes on Aug. 8, 1920. Detroit right-hander Howard Ehmke tossed a […]
Clemson was picked as the favorite in the Atlantic Coast Conference in the 2015 media pre-season poll. “I never really get too caught up in the pre-season prediction-type stuff,” Clemson Head Coach Dabo Swinney said during the ACC Media Days. “I appreciate people having respect for our program and our players. But, you know, really […]
Defending champion Marshall is expected to miss this year’s Conference-USA title contest, if the season goes as the media predicts. Western Kentucky (8-5, 4-4) and Louisiana Tech (9-5, 7-1) were selected as the squads to finish on top of their divisions in the pre-season media poll. In the East, Western Kentucky was picked ahead of […]