Let’s Start Paying College Athletes
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Paying football and basketball players will not ruin college sports or cause them to become “subcontractors.” Indeed, given the way big-time college sports are going, paying the players may be the only way to save them.
Sports Bars Turn the Dial to Videogame Matches
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This summer, "Starcraft II" has become the newest barroom spectator sport. Fans organize so-called Barcraft events, taking over pubs and bistros from Honolulu to Florida and switching big-screen TV sets to Internet broadcasts of professional game matches happening often thousands of miles away.
I don’t have a good mental category for this.
Zygi Wilf Can Buy His Own Stadium
Zygi Wilf, Minnesota governor Mark Dayton discuss new Minnesota Vikings stadium – ESPN
When Gov. Mark Dayton and state lawmakers announced that the outlines of a new budget deal were in place, the Minnesota Vikings were hoping that the door was finally open to discuss their plan for a new $1 billion stadium in …
The Magic of FieldTurf
A free market economy is always generating new ideas, finding new ways to use people and materials, finding new ways to cut waste and improve lives. For today’s example, look no further than the grass on next Sunday’s football games. In most cases, that’s not grass that’s FieldTurf. It’s not just a clever product. It’s …
Stop Stretching!
Everything you know about stretching is probably wrong. So say many sports researchers.
When Duane Knudson, a professor of kinesiology at California State University, Chico, looks around campus at athletes warming up before practice, he sees one dangerous mistake after another. “They’re stretching, touching their toes. . . . ” He sighs. “It’s discouraging.” …
Brett Favre is Retiring
It’s not on the Packers home page yet, but it looks like it’s official: Brett Favre is retiring.
ESPN’s Chris Mortensen reported that according to Favre’s agent, Buss Cook, Favre informed Packers coach Mike McCarthy of his decision Monday night.
A sure-fire first-ballot Hall of Famer, Favre, acquired in a …
Congress Has Oversight of the NFL?
Proponents for NFL retiree benefits get say before Congress
Advocates demanding improved benefits to retired NFL players will have their say Tuesday before Congress.
Increased attention the past few years about the medical and financial plight of some former players finally prompted Congress to look at the perceived problem. The House …
Putting Rumors to Rest
If Condoleezza Rice truly doesn’t want to be President, she could take another job:
Condoleezza Rice, a bona fide football fan, is not applying for the newly opened post of NFL commissioner — not now, anyhow, her spokesman said carefully on Monday.
”At the moment, the secretary is enjoying being secretary …
Things I Find Interesting
In no particular order:
Tibetan monks, who overstayed their immigration visas, were arrested by a SWAT team. A SWAT team? For Tibetan monks? It’s not enough that they get visited by paramilitary Chinese troops? They have to get raided by paramilitary Americans as well? Frank Miller is writing ”Holy Terror, Batman!”, a story that chronicles Batman’s fight …
Super Bowl Pick
I’ll take Jerome Bettis on his home turf and the unstoppable Ben Roethlisburger. Steelers by 14.
UPDATE: It was actually Steelers by 11. You can read a recap of the game courtesy of Captain Ed. Patrick of Badger Blogger live-blogged the Super Bowl commercials. If you missed the game, but are curious about the commercials, that’s …