It was supposed to be a must-see end-of-season month-long tournament that determined the annual world champion of golf. Instead, the FedEx Cup has become the butt of jokes and is over two days before the final round. Entering this final event, only five golfers had a technical chance to win the championship, only three of […]

The Philadelphia Flyers and 76ers are both introducing all-you-can-eat tickets for their upcoming seasons. With each ticket you get a voucher that is exchanged for a wristband. Showing the wristband at designated concession stands gets you free hot dogs, soft drinks, popcorn and nacho chips and salsa. Great news, except for the price. The Flyers’ […]

Hooray to Radar Magazine for putting David Beckham and Posh Spice on its cover “The Overrated 100,” listing the “world’s most overhyped people, places and things.” In listing the Beckhams at the top the magazine writes: “It’s not that they’re untalented; it’s just that he’s an overpaid soccer star and she’s a pointless collection of […]

The London Times published an excerpt from a book by former English soccer player Graeme Le Saux on how the perception of him being gay almost wrecked his career. Because I had different interests, because I didn’t feel comfortable in the laddish drinking culture that was prevalent in English football in the late 1980s, it […]

In 1993, my first boyfriend and I went on a mini-tour of baseball stadiums. We went to Wrigley Field (smelly dump, sat behind a pole for $60 and I wanted to kill the beer guy who kept hawking Pabst Blue Ribbon), the new Comiskey Park (soulless New Traditionalism) and Camden Yards (loved it, especially the […]

The NFL has rendered its verdict in Spygate. From AP: New England coach Bill Belichick was fined the NFL maximum of $500,000 Thursday and the Patriots were ordered to pay $250,000 for spying on an opponent’s defensive signals. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell also ordered the team to give up its own first-round draft choice next […]

For those of you who remember the saga of Olympic runner Derrick Peterson comes this latest press release. Peterson has been hired by the Univ. of Missouri as a track coach. Of particular interest is the last paragraph that says Peterson is married and has a child. And for those of you who don’t know […]

I am a lifelong Patriots fan, and I have no stomach for cheating. Do I think people in the NFL hate the Patriots’ success and want to undermine them? Yes. Said Boomer Esiason: “Everyone’s piling on right now, there’s no question about it. There’s 31 other teams that would love to knock the Patriots off […]

Last week, as part of their NFL preview, the Philadelphia Daily News published a special section focusing on Philadelphia Eagles quarterbacks, past and present. The section was inspired by the drafting of Kevin Kolb to be Donovan McNabb’s heir apparent. Included in this section was a two-page spread in which the paper asked, “Who is […]

This just in . . . Pacman Jones is the TNA tag team champion and still hasn’t stepped foot in the ring. I kinda want to see this match to see how it unfolded . . . On the first Sunday of the 2007 football season, Adam “Pacman” Jones became No. 1 – in the […]

I was so disappointed in LaDanian Tomlinson’s whining after his team’s playoff loss to the Patriots last season (“They showed no class at all . . . and maybe it comes from the head coach”), and he hasn’t stopped since. He shot a Nike commercial in the offseason that was supposed to feature him running […]

Prognosticators predicted that Shanghai 2007 would be the most hotly fought FIFA Women’s World Cup ever. And they’re looking to be right. Some of the toughest among the 16 teams locked horns in Round 1, and pushed and shoved each other to a draw. The U.S. team — big favorites because of their Cup wins […]

According to Gene Orza, chief operating officer of the baseball players’ union, baseball officials have provided the union with a draft 2008 schedule that would have the Boston Red Sox and Oakland Athletics open the season in Tokyo, followed by both teams returning to the USA for a series in Oakland. Baseball has been trying […]

Is it me, or is Tom Brady getting better-looking with age? One thing’s for sure: He hasn’t slowed down his quaffed appearances in magazines. The latest is the agazine Vman (don’t worry – we’d never heard of it either), where he appears in a wet white t-shirt. He’ll be appearing on Sunday Night Football this […]

The NFL kicked off its first regular Sunday and it was a doozy. We saw three-last play field goals, 80 points total in Dallas and Randy Moss being a model citizen. The only third-string quarterback to get any attention was in Cleveland, where rookie Brady Quinn was shown holding a clipboard in the Browns’ 34-7 […]

Novak Djokovic succumbed to his nerves in the crucial moments of his first Grand Slam final tonight, letting five set points slip away in the opening set and wasting another two set points in the second set. Ultimately, it was top-ranked Roger Federer who played his best when it mattered most, defeating his 20-year-old Serbian […]

Once again African futbolistas clinched their rise to dominance on the world soccer scene, as Nigeria beat Spain 3-0 on penalty kicks in the finals of the FIFA U-17 Korea 2007 World Cup. It was a hard-fought game, head to head, with close calls and opportunities lost during 120 scoreless minutes…and two spectacular airborne saves […]

You may have seen the commercials promoting baseball’s postseason telecasts featuring annoying comedian/film “actor” Dane Cook. You know, the ones where he finishes by screaming “There’s only one postseason…there’s only one October!” At first they featured great players and moments in playoff and World Series history. Then they tied that theme into a variety of […]

The other night I was looking at the Phillies website, thinking of buying tickets online. I decided to check out the Phillies Ticket Marketplace, where Diamond Club and Hall of Fame Club box season ticketholders who had extra tickets could resell them through the Phillies. The tickets were being sold only at face value, with […]

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