June 23, 2024

Remembering Willie Mays

Willie Mays was the greatest “Five tool player” in baseball history. In baseball parlance, that means the ability to hit for average (the number of hits divided by at bats), hit with Herculean power (the number of those 108 stitched baseb...

December 12, 2020

Army vs. Navy approaches, and it's more than just football

Army meets Navy in their annual battle, a football war that has gone on since the late 19th century. Same old, same old? Not really. This year's game will be moved from a neutral site to the banks of the Hudson River or more appropriatel...

September 3, 2020

Army gears up for the 2020 season

"I want an officer for a secret and dangerous mission. I want a West Point football player." Although there is some debate whether General George Marshall ever enunciated these words, they are employed to inspire every Army football...

July 8, 2020

What Rush Limbaugh got wrong about wokeness in pro sports

On Tuesday's broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show, the host turned his attention to the upcoming NFL season because he was addressing points made by sportswriter Jason Whitlock, a guest on Monday's Tucker Carlson program.  Limbaugh...

July 7, 2020

How very rich baseball players can give up their salaries for a season

Even though it is just a few so far, nevertheless, the number of major league players forfeiting their salary this year and opting out of playing the truncated 60-game season is growing, with a few more players of note added to the list.  T...

July 15, 2019

Ball Four: Remembering Baseball's Joys and Disappointments

Jim Bouton said, "You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time." The author of that quote, from Ball Four, perhaps the most controversial baseball book ever written, se...

January 23, 2019

Curt Schilling snubbed by Baseball Hall of Fame

"Curt Schilling deserves to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame," President Trump tweeted Sunday evening.  "Great record, especially when under pressure and when it mattered most.  Do what everyone in Baseball...

December 6, 2018

Army versus Navy: Football every American can appreciate

The best sports rivals in our nation meet on the football field this Saturday, when Army meets Navy.  The West Pointers will try to make it three straight wins after being pounded by the Midshipmen from 2002 to 2015, losing every one of the...

October 28, 2018

Most boring World Series game ever leaves baseball fans in agony

Call it the result of insomnia or a case of being a curmudgeon, and admittedly not a fan of either team, but Friday's World Series game played between the Red Sox and the Dodgers turned out to be more ordeal than ideal if you wanted to use it as ...

July 17, 2018

Taking a break from politics: The All Star Game

Tuesday, baseball's All Star Game returns to our nation's capital for the first time since 1969.  That year, the game became a Wednesday matinee after monsoon-like rains washed out the prime-time spectacle.  That specific game holds...