NBA D-League: Can the NBA Man-Up and Deal with the NCAA?
MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - Boca Raton, FLA. - OPINION - The NBA D-League concluded its draft last week and, for much of America, the burning question was:
The NBA still has a minor league?
Sadly that is the point-of-view of Vive Base-ball Canadien! Why Canada Should Have MLB Sanctioned Minor League Baseball
MAJOR BLOGS of MLN Sports - www.majorblogs.net - OPINION - Montreal, CANADA - If you want to know the health of a professional sports franchise in any city, you have to visit a few bars and diners.
When I hit the ground in Nashville, the Sounds have their colors repped at the airport bar.
Drive around town and hit a 'cue joint or a sports bar in Memphis, or Albuquerue, or Round Rock/Austin or Pawtucket or Brooklyn and you will find the minor league team gets its props.
Logos, photos, jerseys, memorabilia and even in-season promotions can be found in healthy baseball towns, and even the ones that are struggling.
The Florida Marlins, whose stadium pigeon population exceeds their paid gate, get their strokes from the area elbow-bending establishments and eateries, which keeps them in the public consciousness in ways that advertising, whining, begging and pleading simply do not. On the bar and beanery count, Expos baseball here in Montreal is not dead, but in
hibernation. The Will Minor League Basketball Take a Pounding from the Euro?
BOCA RATON, FLA. - www.majorblogs.net - OPINION - High school basketball players take note: A second language may up your earning power as a pro. Experts will tell you that a weak dollar is good for exports. While they were thinking beef and corn, someone obviously forgot what a strong Euro does to basketball. The dilapidated dollar and the huge popularity of professional basketball overseas has created a sea of cash that rivals, or in some cases may exceed the NBA's treasure chest. Tim Russert Remembered: The Buffalo Truth Talker MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - 06.17.08 - The man from Buffalo loved politics, and loved sports, Buffalo sports, in particular.
The sudden death of Tim Russert last week left all in the political spectrum stunned. He reshaped the Sunday "Meet the Press" show on NBC into the most relevent political discourse in American politics. His research, and his depth of understanding of the political process kept his guests from turning the show into a big political infomercial.
He loved Buffalo sports. Any sport. People knew about his passion for the Bills, and even the nod to...
MLB June Draft 2008 Coverage - Retooling the Ancient Draft for TV MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - This is the second year that the MLB June MLB Draft has been televised on ESPN-2. That's right. America's Pastime doesn't rank ESPN, like the other drafts. MLB gets wedged between Sumo Goldfish Eating and 1957 Olympic Luge Remembered. It has every reason for being there. In fact, if MLB doesn't do something to modernize its player recruitment into relevancy, the whole thing should just go...
Look Who's Talking (WOW!) - AFL "Open Mike Night" Raw
MAJORBLOGS.NET - OPINION - Be careful of what you wish for.
Most sports fans find that there is something about the silent show on the sidelines that fascinates us. What are they saying to motivate the players? My coach is ripping the official a new one?!
'Boy, I would have loved to have heard that...'
Hall of Shame? - Taylor Hall Takes Tulsa GM Slot (OPINION) MAJORBLOGS.net - 05.05.08 - OPINION - New Tulsa Oilers GM Taylor Hall had better hope that the third time is the charm.
For those of you unfamiliar with the career of Mr. Hall after he left the ice in Tulsa as a player, let's take a trip down Flashback Alley.
In September of 2003, in
Keep It Under Your Hat
A Look Back at 2007:
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Look out at any MLB or MiLB playing field this spring, and you'll see the quiet revolution.
Last summer, after the tragic death of base coach Mike Coolbaugh, I was the lone voice in the wilderness, calling for required head-gear for base coaches (See: The Height of Cool, MAJOR BLOGS, 07.29.07).
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| I didn't get much support from anyone else in the media. Even my good friend, the progressive Branch Rickey, said that the base coaches themselves would nix helmets (VIP Room 08.02.07 )
Apparently I was not alone after all. I had the...
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It's Not Easy Being Green (OR: Bob Costas, You Can't Handle the Truth!)MAJORBLOGS.NET - 04.28.08 - I always love the casual put-down that print journalists like to drop on those of us who are digital magazine publishers.
Print Guy: "So, you have a magazine that's been around nearly ten years covering minor league sports?"
ME: "That's right SZ was the very first digital sports magazine in the world. Cover and sections and everything, going back to 2000."
Print Guy: "Oh, so you're just a website."
That is the unjust 'just' to which I usually smile and politely reply: Three Vial Monte - What MLB and the MLBPA Drug Testing Agreement MissesMAJORBLOGS.net - OPINION - Major League Baseball (MLB), in conjunction with the MLB Players Association (the PA), announced reforms in the testing system for anti-doping that are supposed to fix the sad situation that was detailed in the Mitchell Report, a brutally honest look through league and PA imposed blinders at performance-enhancing-substances (PES). You can read the full release on the report at MLN - The Raw Feed. Is this ground breaking new policy, or a coat of white wash that would even make Huck Finn's mom proud? Here is what I think that they missed in today's announcement...
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