In these troubled times we find ourselves in today, there’s a tendency to look in the past as far as sports goes.
There’s no baseball to watch on television ... or even on the radio. And there’s no guarantee there will even be a shortened 60-game MLB season.
Football would have been a ...
The kind of political posturing we’re seeing in this country when it comes to sports is uneven — and unnerving.
The controversy over the nicknames of some sports teams is the one attracting the most attention around the country.
Take the Washington Redskins, if you will.
The Redskins ...
There is no question the present conditions we’re operating under in this country are going to have long-term effects.
The effects to the professional sports world could be even more long-lasting.
The tenuous situation in major league baseball is one of the more visible ones.
MLB owners ...
Just the other day, I was listening to the radio (Sirius variety) when a song came on that put me on time passages of the mind.
The song, “Monday, Monday” by the Mamas and Papas, was popular in the winter of 1966.
Now, 1966 was a time when you could actually understand the words. ...
They may be a pandemic going on in this country. And record unemployment and racial strife rages on. But still the game goes on.
That game — and there aren’t many going nowadays — is the 50 and Over Softball League.
Now, the league may be the only operating one of any kind locally at ...
In this — whacky and never seen before — world we’re living in, there are going to be things you are not going to see in 2020.
It’s bad enough that that high school and college tournament seasons in hockey and basketball were washed away.
I especially feel for all the seniors who ...