I am not ready to think about ordering playoff tickets, but I’m cautiously optimistic about what I’ve seen from the Cincinnati Reds so far this season. I love their young starting pitchers. I think they have the best infield in the National League. And in Dusty Baker, they have a veteran manager who has to […]

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It must be the heat. That’s the only possible reason so many screwy things are happening in the world of sports. We are on the cusp of Global Warming, which was invented by Al Gore, along with the internet, and everybody’s brains are getting deep-fried.
How else to explain what ESPN is doing to show us […]

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There was the time in 1979 when I was covering the Super Bowl in Miami and Bobby Stallings was playing host to a bunch of our fellow sports derelicts at his condo in Fort Lauderdale. I can’t remember everybody who was there, but I know that Tommy Musselman, Lynn Griffin, and Don “Lefty” Fightmaster were […]

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I have no idea who came up with the idea of New Year’s resolutions, but I’ll bet it was a Stone Age wife who got sick and tired of her husband lying around the cave, stuffing his face with dried bat wings and sucking down a brewsky and trying to figure out his Fantasy Dinosaur […]

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My favorite Louisville Bats player is Kevin Barker, the slugging left-handed first-baseman whom the parent Cincinnati Reds simply will not call up, no matter how anemic their hitting. Heading into last night’s game at Lehigh Valley, Barker had a team-leading 21 homers,  leaving him 12 away from tying the franchise record set by Mike Calise […]

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A guy turns 66 and he thinks about a lot of stuff. Music is a big part of it. He ponders the career of Michael Jackson, dead at 50, and he has trouble reconciling the Bob Dylan he always has known and loved with the raspy caricature he saw in concert Wednesday night at Slugger […]

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Nobody asked me, but…
If the NCAA is serious about cleaning up big-time college athletics – and sometimes I wonder if it is – it should adopt a rule similar to the “trainer insuror” rule in thoroughbred racing. The rule stipulates that if an illegal medication is detected in a horse’s system, the trainer is automatically […]

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Here are 10 things I’m wondering about as we head into summer:
1.    Isn’t it time the Louisville Bats dropped the color scheme of the Milwaukee Brewers, their former parent team, and adopted the colors of the Cincinnati Reds, their parent team now and for the foreseeable future? It also wouldn’t bother me at all to […]

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When the noted Kentucky football fan Patrick Henry said, “Give me liberty or give me death,” he obviously had no idea how cold and dreary it can get in Memphis at this time of year. Indeed, to be perfectly honest, the death of the 2008 Wildcat football season would have been preferable to the Liberty […]

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Bogus headline No. 1: “Alabama’s Saban Announces 10 Per Cent Pay Cut, Promises to Give Money to General Fund.”

The nation’s economic crisis seems to have hit every area of society except the sports world. The New York Yankees, for example, recently signed a free-agent pitcher for an amount that’s only slightly below the budget for […]

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