For purveyors of college sports, athletic recruitment is like the weather: many complain, but few do anything about it. Scandals abound concerning young people (many of whom, based on their academic achievement, have no place in the... Read More

It was twenty years ago today (or pretty close to it) that Sparky Anderson taught the Detroit Tigers how to be winners. Unlike the Tigers of 2003, who resembled the 1962 Mets in terms of inefficiency, the 1984 team had one of the best... Read More

Like peanut butter and jelly or Abbott and Costello, Brooklyn and baseball belong together. The history of this seemingly symbiotic relationship began in the mid-nineteenth century, when a professional team made its home in Brooklyn in... Read More

One of the charming qualities about baseball is that a fan from a hundred years ago would easily recognize the modern game. Little has changed: there are still four bases, nine innings, and “three strikes, you’re out.” Ed Delahanty... Read More

The author was smart enough to realize early on that a career in sports is short and uncertain. Nevertheless, he happily contradicts that notion as he reminisces in this book about his sixty-five-year association with the national... Read More

Love him or hate him, basketball fans have to admit that John Chaney gets results. His sense of discipline and devotion to the game and his players has kept the Temple University Owls in contention for NCAA glory since he took the helm... Read More

The ceremonies commemorating the second anniversary of September 11, 2001 remind Americans how relatively lucky they have been, how relatively unscathed by the horrors of the violence that occurs on foreign shores. It also reminds... Read More

When television made its ballyhooed debut for the general public at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, could anyone have dreamed how much it would grow in such a relatively short time? It quickly developed from a commodity that only... Read More