Columns like this shouldn’t have to be written anymore. Yet they are. Articles about the lack of African-American head coaches in professional and college sports should be a subject of the past. Unfortunately, they aren’t. The Indianapolis Colts (www.colts.com) winning a Super Bowl (www.nfl.com) should be more about Tony Dungy finally capturing the Lombardi Trophy […]
Three weeks ago while listening to Cal Ripken, Jr. and Tony Gwynn speak of becoming the newest inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame (www.baseballhalloffame.org), I wondered about the feeling that comes with that monumental phone call. My inability to grasp what getting such a call would be like reminded me of the line Brad […]
I’m not at the Super Bowl (www.nfl.com). I may be the only sports writer in America not at Media Day five days before the big event. ESPN is there. So are Sports Illustrated and Fox Sports along with all the major networks. You’ll see that weasel Pat O’Brien asking stuff for Access Hollywood. Even those […]
In the movie A Bronx Tale, Robert DeNiro informs his son, Calogero, that “there’s nothing worse (in life) than wasted talent.” That line always seems to ring in my head when seeing Atlanta Falcon (www.atlantafalcons.com) quarterback Matt Schaub holding a clipboard on an NFL sideline. Now as a restricted free agent, there is a possibility […]
The identity of Dave Leitao’s first Virginia team was a scrappy, understaffed crew that had no fan expectations. The team had a few surprise wins and even managed to make a postseason tournament in the N.I.T. So what is this year’s team identity? Don’t ask them. They’re still trying to figure it out themselves. Halfway […]
Before every Washington Redskins game Comcast Sports Net’s (www.comcastsportsnet.com) Kelli Johnson has the story. After each game, she gets the pertinent interviews, asking the tough questions. She is truly the quintessential beat reporter. Also an anchor on “Sports Rise” and “Sports Night,” Johnson, a former four-year, all-conference academic starter on the University of Idaho’s women’s […]
The future has to be better, doesn’t it? Could 2007 be the year sports are devoid of steroids? Will we have 12 months free of Terrell Owens’ shenanigans? Might this just be the year when my Eagles finally win a Super Bowl? O.K., so you have a better chance of meeting the Tooth Fairy than […]
How will you remember the year in sports? Which story will stick? Blood, sweat and tears: Well, maybe not the blood, but after losing The Masters and his father, coach and mentor, Earl Woods, to cancer, Tiger Woods captured The British Open title and our hearts all over again with his emotional breakdown. Was it […]
Flying high now: Local jouster Jimmy Lange is garnering quite a following and even attracted the great Angelo Dundee (coach to Muhammad Ali and George Foreman) to his corner. Tonight, there’s boxing. No glitz and bright lights of Las Vegas but rather a ring in the middle of a three-quarters filled Patriot Center in Fairfax. […]
Ask any UVA basketball fan who the dynamic duo is and they’ll likely tell you Sean Singletary and J.R. Reynolds. Rightfully so. But give those fine people a heads up on the emerging triple threat of Sharneé Zoll, Brenna McGuire and freshman Monica Wright. Nine games into her 30th year as head coach of UVA […]