The St. Louis Cardinals added outfielder Marcel Ozuna to strengthen their lineup, while the Milwaukee Brewers really boosted their outfields by signing free agent Lorenzo Cain and trading Christian Yellich. In the NL Central division, however, the Chicago Cubs are the team to beat. Almost everyone felt the same way […]
The Chicago “Black Sox Scandal” of 1919 shook baseball to the core and nearly ruined the game. Sports journalist Ring Lardner was at the center of the story, regularly reporting on the subsequent trial and the ban on the eight players involved. The case shook Lardner’s belief in the game […]
At first, I was skeptical that Nintendo could recreate the fun of the original game without radically altering the basic elements of what made the game so great. The original Punch-Out !! I had a somewhat repetitive game, but there was a lot of pleasure in figuring out how to […]
What is the difference between a sweet potato and a yam? The definition of yam is; the edible starchy tuber of a climbing plant that is widely grown in tropical and subtropical countries. So, you see that the many so-called yams that you have been eating all these years are […]
It was in the last quarter of 1993 that the Carolina Panthers received an expansion franchise from the NFL. Thousands of people literally celebrated with this good news. Entrepreneur Jerry Richardson, the person who spearheaded Carolina’s bid, proclaimed that the award was a dream come true. The dream began in […]
After writing my second article on Patrick Swayze’s tragic misplaced belief in mainstream medicine, a mainstream oncologist followed me to CureZone and reprimanded me with the following message: I have worked as an oncologist / pathologist for over 20 years and am deeply appalled at the amount of misinformation that […]
During February we heard endless conversations about bubble teams. Who is in? Who is out? Who is on the edge? That, of course, was referring to the college basketball tournament. But a new focus on bubble teams is very much on the sports betting scene in March and those are […]
Bert Jones is regularly mentioned in discussions about quarterbacks that they were excellent and highly underrated. Jones played on some Baltimore Colts teams that didn’t have many other star players on the roster. Still, he performed at a high level and lifted the entire team with the quality of his […]
It makes no sense to drive a fast car slowly, as it (almost) makes no sense to drive an F1 on the asphalt of a race track. This is the basic principle of driving an illegal elegant machine on the highway in a straight line without using any maneuvering skills. […]
Two of the best baseball players of the past two decades who grew up in Cincinnati have enjoyed the team’s success in red hats and leggings, which should have excited fans in their hometown. Unfortunately for those in Queen City, these favorite sons became stars not for the Reds, but […]
