Month: October 2011

By one measure, David Freese on Thursday had the greatest game in postseason history. Freese had a Win Probability Added total of 0.969. Here's how that works: In the ninth inning, […]

Of the roughly 201,000 major-league baseball games over the years, none have been any more compelling than Thursday night. But they screwed up the script. After the Cardinals' riveting comeback in […]

Sunday's column about the epidemic of blowouts in Clark County high school football generated a ton of response. Apparently, people aren't enamored with games that end 77-0 or 70-0 (despite […]

Sunday's column about the epidemic of blowouts in Clark County high school football generated a ton of response. Apparently, people aren't enamored with games that end 77-0 or 70-0 (despite […]

It often has been said that college football has little to do with college and really is just big business. Now somebody has quantified that. Ryan Brewer, a finance professor at […]

Our resident Blazer fanatic in the newsroom sent me this link with the subject line: "Shut up shut up shut up JUST SHUT UP" Yes, he's had his fill of […]

Lance Berkman has delivered the first blow in the 2011 World Series, not that anybody is paying attention to this World Series. Berkman hit a two-run double to get the […]

There has been much talk about NFL teams engaging in a "Suck for Luck" campaign. Considering that three teams are still winless and five have one win, there seems to be […]

They say that football is a game of inches. This referee does his best to prove it — in favor of Wake Forest. […]

What will be your at-bat music? When you make it to the major leagues, and you're introduced as the next batter, what song will blare over the P.A. system? I've been […]