My brother Seth and I are the only Milwaukee Brewers fans we know. Growing up in Altoona in the 1990s, Seth cheered for the Indians, and I rooted for the Red Sox. We both liked Richie Sexson, Cleveland’s 6-foot-8 first baseman who sometimes played left field. When he got traded to ...
George Carlin had a famous bit where he contrasted the differences between baseball and football. With all due respect to one of my favorite comedians, I want to compare all sports to hockey. First, hockey players play. It’s not uncommon for a hockey player to come off the ice, head to the locker room for 15 stitches and miss maybe one shift. Same with broken bones and ligament tears. Basketball players with hangnails miss more time than college kids with 8 a.m. biology classes. Except for linemen, is it my imagination or does every football team have a player or two wearing ...
Once upon a time in America, Friday nights in the fall were the sole domain of high school football. That epoch is history. On a recent Friday while making the trek to Mill Hall, Pennsylvania to broadcast a high school football game, SiriusXM was broadcasting the Army-Temple game that kicked ...
Bye weeks during the college football season typically give fans additional time to step back and assess the status of their favorite teams. For Penn State fans, it provides an extra 168 hours to further lament the status of a team that has appeared to regress significantly since the start ...
The definition of Penn State football is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Following last season’s debacle, AD Pat Kraft had ample time to make a head coaching hire. What did he do? After fumbling BYU’s Kalani Sitake, Kraft hired a monotonous coach in Matt Campbell with a blue-collar “do more with less” approach. If you’re aware of what’s holding PSU back, you know this was the exact opposite hire the program needed. Who Penn State needed to hire: Bob Chesney. A native Pennsylvanian, Chesney has done nothing but win at every ...
ATLANTA — Angel Reese has always exuded confidence on and off the basketball court. In her first season with Atlanta, she’s already become the team’s emotional leader and now has the Dream two wins away from the first WNBA championship in franchise history. Game 4 is Saturday. “I ...
