On the exterior, messing with bingo players sounds like a rip roarin’ time. Hey, they’re usually old, feeble, and in possession of loose change. But that’s our Americentric prejudices kicking in. Try that guff in Norway, and a paper like AFTENPOSTEN might report about you, too, getting your hide handed to you in a foiled […]

ESPN analyst and former Oklahoma State basketball player Doug Gottlieb cites an anonymous source in reporting that, “(Oklahoma State basketball coach Sean Sutton, who kept the family name in place at Oklahoma State after succeeding his father as coach, will not return for a third season.”

Gottlieb also notes Sutton will get paid for the final […]

Speedo, makers of fine skull caps and grape slings since 1914, has shaken up the Olympic swimming pool with its newest suit, the LZR Racer. Swimmers clad in the unimpressive-looking bodysuits have posted very impressive times, breaking 11 world records since February. This has international swimming authorities in a tizzy, prompting them to […]

Congratulations to Bill Plaschke, who won another sports column writing award from the Associated Press Sports Editors this week. Note Plaschke’s comments in accepting the award:

(“Fight“? What for?)
We loved newspapers growing up. As a kid, we learned to read hovering over a KC Star sports page on the kitchen table every morning. But sadly, we […]

It’s a really sad world we live in that any grown adult who enjoys hanging around young’uns playing sports has the stereotype of being some kind of pervert. Most of them are perfect gentlemen who just love teaching kids the great sport of baseball. Others get arrested for soliciting sex with a 14-year-old.

NEWSDAY reports […]

Bob Kravitz of the INDIANAPOLIS STAR has some fun news from the presidential campaign trail - direct from the mouth of Barry Obama.

As none of you may know, Richard Nixon built a bowling alley in the basement of the White House during his truncated tenure on Pennsylvania Avenue. Barry bowled a 37 earlier this week, […]

Tyler Kepner blogs in the NEW YORK TIMES about Derek Jeter’s reverence for 97-year-old Bob “Voice of God” Sheppard, who has been handling PA at Yankee Stadium since 1951.

Sheppard is suffering from bronchitis, which is keeping him away from his duties at the ballpark, but that won’t stop Derek Jeter from opening up the heavens […]

Babe Ruth’s granddaughter, Linda Ruth Tosetti, has taken the opportunity of the (aborted) final Opening Day of the Heavily Modified House That Ruth Built and Then Pounded Repeatedly with Baseballs to reiterate her desire to see Granpappy’s #3 retired throughout the major leagues just like Jackie Robinson in 1997.

Unless Tosetti, a lifelong Red Sox fan, […]

Pennsylvania is important or something for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for reasons known probably to those following politics. I’m not sure how the election process works, but if bowling is one of the tiebreakers, consider Obama framed. The Illinois junior senator bowled a 37 in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

(”Senator, this isn’t an election, this is […]

Brook & Robin Lopez, the twin towers of power of the Stanford basketball squad, seem to have had enough of life on The Farm, as the brothers have decided to go pro.

The twins’ mother, Deborah Ledford, told the ASSOCIATED PRESS that her sons will forgo their final two years of collegiate eligibility and enter the […]