New leader grew up with Players (The Florida Times-Union)
Sports Illustrated recently reprinted a photo of Jerry Pate's famous dive into the pond on the 18th hole of the TPC Sawgrass Players Stadium Course after winning the 1982 Players Championship....more...Fabulous 50 years covering baseball for Bodley (USA Today)
USA TODAY's Hal Bodley is covering his 50th baseball season, and in that time has worked more than 4,000 games, seen more than 36,000 innings played and interviewed thousands of players, managers and executives. The highs and lows of a half-century of baseball....more... Sports, and fantasy, gone mad (Lancaster Online)
This Space is a contrarian, evidently. Unlike America, I only like football. I am not in mad, obsessive, Kool-Aid-guzzling love with it. With this in mind, let's run a reality-check some of last week's news ...Item: Penn State announces its 2008 and 2009 schedu......more... Publicity frowns on Post 39?s bats (The Virginia Gazette)
Any writer worth his or her salt believes that everyone reads his or her work. In community journalism, it?s even more prevalent, as hundreds of high school and school-aged kids flock to the sports pages twice a week hoping to find their name in print....more... Baseball Balladeer: Chuck Brodsky mixes his love of music with his love of the game (The Ledger Independent)
Singer-songwriter Chuck Brodsky has been busy for over twenty years living his life penning some of the most clever, insightful and thought-provoking melodies by anyone in the music world....more... Some Royals fans see Glass as half-full (The Kansas City Star)
Kansas Citians have always been a bit sensitive about how outsiders view us....more... Can Webb lead American fans to circle the track once again? (Seattle Times)
When Jim Ryun first broke the world record in the mile in 1966, Walter Cronkite interrupted his nightly network show to share the news. Later that year, at age......more... Hall of fame: Cooley led the cheers (The Des Moines Register)
A stately office in the building that once housed Iowa governors reconnects E. Wayne Cooley to his past....more... Beckham drawing lots of blahs (Long Beach Press-Telegram)
ESPN is betting future of MLS coverage on him. "If I invite David Beckham over to the house to watch the paint dry on the walls, will that make it more exciting? I don't think so. Soccer in the United States was boring before David Beckham, and it will be boring with David Beckham."...more... |