An interesting contest has been getting a little play today involving 2K Sports’ new Major League Baseball 2K10 video game.  To break through the clutter of game news, 2K Sports has offered $1,000,000 to the first fan who can throw a perfect game on MLB 2K10 from March 2 through May 1. There are...

As an original Dallas Mavericks fan (yes, 1980-81, I was a glutton for punishment even at young age), never living anywhere near Dallas, I’ve had to follow the team from a bit of a distance.  In the 80’s and early 90’s that meant seeing them on TV when they played the Nets and Knicks...

I decided to take a look back at the Yankees World Series championship teams of the past 50 years and see who were the prominent players (i.e., starters or key reserves) who the Yanks didn’t bring back the following year.  I couldn’t remember a more important position player than Hideki...

Here’s some news from the Tickets world… Ron Bension is the new CEO at TicketsNow… From the official statement: TicketsNow, a leading online event ticket marketplace and Ticketmaster (NASDAQ:TKTM) company, today announced the appointment of Ron Bension as the company’s Chief Executive...

New York Jets fans looking to attend the Super Bowl in the event their team wins Sunday’s AFC Championship Game now have an opportunity to secure the right to buy game tickets at current market prices – before the expected surge should the Jets advance.  National Event Company (www.NECO.com)...

I was interested in what fans’ reaction would be to Mark McGwire when he appeared today at the Cardinals Winter Warm-Up event in St. Louis.  As expected, reports were that he was greeted warmly, even cheered. Fine, McGwire hit gobs of home runs for their team, won them some games and energized...

There’s usually a stinker or two in the NFL Wild Card Weekend, particularly since there’s usually a team or two in one conference or another that, upon further review, made the playoffs by default (this means you, Bengals and, it turned out, Eagles). This year, the first three playoff games,...

I’m just about finished with John Eisenberg’s excellent book That First Season, about Vince Lombardi’s first year in Green Bay, 1959, when he turned a team that had not had a winning record in 12 years and was coming off a 1-10-1 season that was not only the worst by record in Packers...