Today on the west coast of Scotland, at the Royal Troon Golf Club, a course originally founded in 1878 hosted one of the greatest one-on-one duels in the history of major championship golf. With a final round of 63 (which included a record-tying 10 birdies with two bogies), 40-year old Henrik Stenson outlasted World Golf […]
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Opinion: On Terrorism, Guns and the NRA
It’s been less than a week since the Orlando night club massacre. Unlike our politicians, I’m not one to instantly politicize tragedies like this but I feel it’s now appropriate to share some deep feelings I have about the issues it’s created. Most mass shootings always spark an outcry that goes nowhere for increased gun control. […]
How to Reform the Primary Nominating Process
Now that the two major party nominees have officially accumulated the requisite number of delegates to secure their party’s nomination, I’d like to look forward. How do we improve the nominating process to give us better candidates in the future. Realizing that many reading this do believe that Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton are great […]
30 Years Ago: Jack’s 6th Green Jacket
10 Candidates for the 2016 Hall of Fame
On Wednesday afternoon, my favorite moment of the baseball off-season will occur: the announcement of the Class of 2016, the new inductees into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. After two terrific classes of Hall of Famers (seven deserving players elected in the past two years), this year’s class will likely be smaller, […]
A Tribute to the Hall of Fame Class of 2015
Every year, in a small upstate New York town named Cooperstown, there is a magical day, usually in the glowing sunshine, in which legends of the sport of baseball are bestowed with the game’s greatest honor, induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Well, not every year. Two years ago, despite the […]
The decline of African-Americans in Major League Baseball
What has happened to all of the great African-American players in Major League Baseball? A few weeks ago, on April 15th, as they do every year, all 30 major league teams celebrated the anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color line in 1947. Every player on every team wore Robinson’s #42 to honor this civil […]
Minnie Minoso 1925-2015
The Hall of Fame Class of 2015
Earlier today, for the first time since exactly 60 years ago when Joe DiMaggio and 3 others were chosen, the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) elected four new members to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz and Craig Biggio will be enshrined into Cooperstown’s exclusive club this summer. […]
Why Women will Never Lose the Right to Choose
(written 9/3/12) Why a woman’s right to choose will NEVER be taken away… If you’ve been watching TV or reading about the presidential campaign, you may have noticed that there have been talking points about the Republican Party’s “War on Women.” It started early in the year with the nonsense over the ObamaCare mandate […]