Jim Miller of New York points out that NFL announcers have begun to refer to mass confusion at the line of scrimmage as a "scrum." But a scrum is a relatively orderly event used in rugby to put the ball back into play after an infraction. Mass chaos in rugby, Miller notes, is proper...
or why does ESPN hate my favorite sport, particularly if that favorite sport is hockey. But what really bothered ESPN’s core audience, Lipsyte says, was “the intrusion of what they called societal issues
Richard Mah of Calgary, Alberta, writes, "You decry football players for not wearing the best headgear available. The same applies to the other major league sport that encourages physical contact: hockey. You would be surprised at the cavalier attitude many professional hockey players take regardin...
Coach Christie Sides is out in Indiana; what's next for the Fever? 11hMichael Voepel, +2 More Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images Coaching changes: Fever's Sides is sixth coach to be fired this offseason Indiana fired Christie Sides on Sunday, making her the sixth head coach to...
On the floor, under the lights, you definitely need a shtick. Something to fill seven minutes. (Go a bit shorter for college games, halve the seven minutes for hockey intermissions.) Something the hoi polloi can see from the nosebleeds. Something that doesn't mess up the floor. (Sorry,...