SportsDystopia

   The Best Of Baseball And Sports Insight

Dusty Baker Takes His Game To Little League
Has Dr. James Andrews ever performed Tommy John Surgery on a 9 year old?

Cutting Through The Cubs Collapse Hype
As usual, the sports media embarasses it’s self when given the opportunity.

Wait ‘Till Next Year, But Don’t Hold Your Breath
For Cubs fans, the real horrorshow starts next season.

Why Haven’t Other Organizations Emulated The Twins?
The Minnesota Twins have laid a blueprint for success, but the league hasn’t caught on.

Ryan Howard Defying Baseball History As We Speak
Howard’s 2008 season is utterly unprecedented in 130 years of baseball history.

Aiming At The Easy Target
The controversy over Josh Howard reaches fever pitch, but why is the media missing the point so woefully?

   Best Of The Sports World At Large

Ralph Wiley

Then All The Joy Turned To Sorrow
Ralph’s haunting piece about the Ray Mancini/Duk Koo Kim Fight in 1982

Swinging Through Time With Sam
His beautiful epitaph for legendary columnist Sam Lacy.

Squeeze Play: Baseball’s Troubling Issue
An honest essay about the issues of race and baseball.

An Athlete With the Freedom To Speak
You might not remember, but a few years before the Josh Howard controversy, there was another athlete who took a stand against the national anthem (though she never capitulated). Ralph gets to the heart of the manner like only he could.

Bill Simmons

Still Haunted By Len Bias
A deeply personal and moving look back at the death of Len Bias.

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