Never before or since has a baseball promotion been so ill-advised, spectacularly destructive and, perhaps, so good for society as a whole. Sunday is the 30-year anniversary of Disco Demolition Night, the brainchild of Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck and area disk jockey Steve Dahl, wherein an estimated 90,000 people tore up Comiskey Park […]

You may or may not be familiar with Abbey Clancy, the girlfriend of English soccer star Peter Crouch. You might not even be that familiar with Peter Crouch, either. But all you really need to know is that Abbey is quite attractive. And more importantly, she doesn’t mind if there’s a slight snafu with her […]

What happened to the days when tennis was a gentleman’s sport? It still is, we suppose, for the most part; you don’t see Roger Federer whipping his hog out or anything. But you’d think that no matter what happens on a tennis court, both players would be free from the uglier aspects of human nature.

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It’s a scientific fact* - the only people who like football’s BCS system are the people who are getting rich off of it. The suits who run the BCS conferences and athletic programs, the corporations who sponsor college football games and broadcasts, the  sham “non-profit” organizations whose “revenue in excess of expenses” overfloweth - these […]

The word “ironic” gets thrown around a lot these days, usually in places it has no business being used. The word actually describes something happening that is the opposite of what one might reasonably expect. Rain on your wedding day is not ironic, unless your wedding date was moved to a desert specifically to avoid […]

It’s hard to determine what’s more exciting; Manny Ramirez at the plate, or in the outfield. Fans at Citi Field actually cheered him on Wednesday, but not for his leadoff homer in the ninth. Manny got a standing O when he misplayed Daniel Murphy’s one-out liner into a double in the first — now is […]