sports columns
Ask Babe: More questions for the Babe
By BABE WAXPAK
Scripps Howard News Service
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Dear Babe: My father gave me a 1962 World Series autographed team baseball with 23 signatures. "1962 World Series'' is handwritten on the ball.
Good sports lacking in L.A.
By SCOTT OSTLER
San Francisco Chronicle
Thursday, October 18, 2007
A mysterious malaise has fallen upon the Los Angeles sports scene.
As a former Angelino -- a therapist would say "recovering Angelino" -- I can't really revel in the misery of my homies.
Alex Marvez's weekly look at professional wrestling
By ALEX MARVEZ
Scripps Howard News Service
Thursday, October 11, 2007
The murder/suicide of World Wrestling Entertainment star Chris Benoit and his family was pro wrestling's biggest news story ever.
But almost two decades earlier, the stabbing death of Frank "Bruiser Brody" Goodish by a co-worker received scant media coverage.
ESPN legal analyst mired in the middle
By RAY McNULTY
Scripps Howard News Service
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Just how far the wrong way has the sports world gone in recent years? So far, in fact, that Roger Cossack has become one of ESPN's most prominent analysts.
And he's a lawyer _ a former trial lawyer whose specialty was the criminal courts _ which, sadly, says plenty about the current culture of American sport.
But Cossack says his presence on ESPN also says something about the popular cable network and its commitment to covering sports in the current American culture.
"Sports is a significant part of our culture," Cossack was saying the other day.
Lessons learned from the Offerman outburst
By DAVID LASSEN
Scripps Howard News Service
Friday, August 17, 2007
Rather than simply decry Tuesday's Jose Offerman incident as the latest sporting outrage, sign of the decline of Western civilization, etc., let's employ it as what coaches and other instructors like to call "a teachable moment."
As such, it offers at least three clear-cut lessons:
-- When a former major leaguer goes to the independent minor leagues to try to resurrect a career, he might not only kill it off, instead, but also has the opportunity to tarnish whatever he did in the majors.
-- Even if you feel steroids are a huge black eye on the game of baseball, there are clearly worse things that can happen - like, say, attempted manslaughter in the second inning of a ballgame.
Despite their 10,000 losess, Phillies aren't worst team
By BERNIE LINCICOME
Scripps Howard News Service
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Claiming to be the worst sports team of all time is all very well, especially with so significant a number as 10,000 losses for evidence.
Who is better: Tiger Woods or Roger Federer?
By KYLE RINGO and RYAN THORBURN
Scripps Howard News Service
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Ryan Thorburn: Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer of all time, but he'll never win the Masters five times in a row.
Federer already has 11 Grand Slams compared to 12 majors for the 31-year-old Woods.
Why some baseball records remain sacred
By GERRY GOLDSTEIN
The Providence Journal
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
One used to think that the last place to find ambiguity was in baseball statistics, where accomplishment is measured and archived strictly by the numbers.
