It sure sounds nice, the idea that Major League Baseball’s embrace of legalized betting has opened a door for the late Pete Rose to be enshrined in the Hall of Fame. With all this gambling going on, they’d be a bunch of hypocrites if they didn’t put Rose in Cooperstown, right? Well … no. It’s…
Either Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred has close to a $550 million per year alternative to ESPN or he has committed sports business malpractice. On Thursday morning, ESPN informed MLB it was opting out of the final three years of its $550 million per season contract with baseball after this year. MLB did a…
The important thing about the sentencing of Luis Rubiales is not whether he will go to prison, or how many thousands of euros he will have to pay to compensate Jenni Hermoso, the World Cup-winning footballer he kissed without consent while the world was watching. The important thing is that it represents an end to…
<p style="text-align: justify;">मौर्य साम्राज्‍य ने भारत के बड़े भूभाग पर 137 वर्ष ( ईसापूर्व 322 से ईसापूर्व 185 ) तक शासन किया, जिसमें सबसे प्रतापी शासक सम्राट अशोक थे. उन्‍होंने सबसे अधिक 37 साल तक लगभग पूरे भारत पर जिसमें अफगानिस्‍तान तक की सीमा थी, शासन किया. वह बौद्ध मत को मानने वाले थे और…
In becoming the most successful quarterback in NFL history, Tom Brady walked to the line of scrimmage with the answers to the test. As if his mind were working in 4-D, he knew the defense’s plan, as well as his opponent’s. His lightning-quick processing resulted in seven rings and the title of the greatest NFL…
On Jan. 22, a 17-year-old in the Antioch neighborhood of Nashville entered his high school’s lunchroom and shot two other students before fatally turning the gun on himself. One of the students escaped with a graze wound. The other, Josselin Corea Escalante, 16, died. Antioch High School was fitted with multiple safety measures intended to…
I could feel the anger in Erin Kyle’s voice when I spoke to her last week. She was in the harried process of moving from a hotel to an apartment in the Marina del Rey section of Los Angeles because her family’s townhouse was destroyed in the Palisades fire. Her daughter, who will be 16…
Everybody wants to cover sports media, but maybe everyone shouldn’t. Mike Florio, “Pro Football Talk” aggregator/insider/gadfly extraordinaire, is on the most watched pregame show, NBC’s “Football Night in America,” every Sunday night, but he fashions himself a little bit of the league’s and media’s police. Some of the stuff he does can be pretty good….
For all of the excitement an expanded College Football Playoff has created, there is at least one unintended consequence that seems to be revealing itself during Ohio State’s incredible postseason tear. Rivalries no longer matter. For all the dancing, prancing, flaunting and flag-planting we witnessed during rivalry week this season, Ohio State is proving teams…
CLEVELAND — To grasp how the Cleveland Browns spiraled into one of the worst teams in the NFL, it’s important to first return to the end of last season. The Browns dismantled their offense this year and rebuilt an inferior version in an attempt to appease Deshaun Watson. All of the changes failed miserably. The…