Many years ago there was a scandal at some parimutuel race tracks. It seems the scammers had worked out a method of getting their bets in just a couple of seconds after the gates flew open and the horses started down the track. Now that would not seem on the face of it to be [...]
The drumbeat is increasing in volume. Each year it becomes more and more apparent that a sport can not go on forever using different rules. In football the AFC doesn’t have the option for going for two points while NFC teams playing against others in their conference can only kick for the one. In basketball [...]
Howie Rose on radio and Keith Hernandez on TV occasionally sprinkle into their broadcasts mentions of the board, now computer, game simulation Strat-O-Matic. Obviously both played the game a lot when they were younger. Even some ballplayers, notably Cal Ripken Jr., have admitted to playing the game on planes during their playing careers. Keith will [...]
When I tell people about when I became a Mets fan I usually mention that I became one before the team even had its name. Picture a shattered eight year old when the 1957 baseball season ended whose favorite team, the New York Giants abandoned the right coast for the wrong coast. And what was [...]