The New York Times produced a fascinating video about the history and “science” of the cross-over dribble. The segment features interviews with cross-over dribble experts such as Allen Iverson, Tim Hardaway, Dwyane Wade, and Derrick Rose, along with interviews from a few lesser knowns, such as a walk-on player from Georgetown University who taught [...] Read More
Maybe Barry Bonds isn’t the spawn of Satan after all? Bonds quietly offered to pay for the college education of the children of Bryan Stow, a San Francisco Giants fan who went into a coma after being brutally attacked outside Dodger Stadium. The attack on Stow earned national headlines, and one of his alleged attackers [...] Read More
Across the pond, there’s a big fuss over something called “super injunctions,” which as an American, I had never heard of until stumbling across a story on the International Journal of Sport Finance blog. In short, a super injunction is a legal tactic in England that is, to quote Tech Crunch Europe, “when someone rich [...] Read More
What was a recent NFL draft pick doing at an 8th-grade dance? Providing a lifetime worth of memories for his date. And providing evidence of his own maturation. J.T. Thomas was recently drafted by the Chicago Bears, and the departing linebacker from West Virginia University has already been able to find a way to parlay [...] Read More
Over the weekend, ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio conducted a rambling interview with Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis. Among one of the more revelatory notes was Lewis’ prediction that a protracted NFL lockout will cause an increase in crime: People live through us … Do this research if we don’t have a season — watch how much evil, [...] Read More
Coming into the 2011 baseball season Bartolo Colon was, by most accounts, done with Major League Baseball: he shuffled into spring training at least 30 pounds overweight, looking every bit of his 37 years; he had faced over five years of recurring ailments and disabilities, and he had finished out last year’s season with a damaged rotator [...] Read More
Apparently Fox TV executives aren’t history buffs. If they were, Saturday evening’s primetime MLB game between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees wouldn’t have featured an on-air, in-booth appearance by B-list comic Sarah Silverman in the bottom of the fourth inning. ESPN’s Monday Night Football provided a season-long example in 2006 of why [...] Read More
At the Charlotte UltraSwim this past weekend in North Carolina, most eyes were locked on super-Olympian Michael Phelps and his team USA buddy/rival Ryan Lochte. But there was another deeper and more meaningful story going on in the women’s heats, as exemplified by distance swimmer Chloe Sutton’s swim cap, which bore the message “Never, ever give [...] Read More
When Commissioner David Stern steps to the podium June 23 to begin the 2011 NBA Draft, there’s going to be more than three dozen early entries hoping to hear their names called. Nearly one-third of them will be disappointed, if recent history holds true. The blog Halcyon Hoops recently conducted an analysis of early entries [...] Read More
[Braham Dabscheck is an industrial relations scholar, sports writer and enthusiast, and author of Reading Baseball: Books, Biographies, and the Business of the Game, published April 2011, by FiT. He has written extensively on many aspects of sport, and he continues with that tradition today by offering a review of Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn't Want to Be [...] Read More