Daily Dose: It’s just not working

I’ll defend Bill Cartwright’s right to bench Jamal Crawford and Jalen Rose to the bitter end. I have no problem with him sitting down his two prima donnas who don’t know a good shot from a bad one, and who only play defense when they feel like it....

Two baseball-related things

As you can see, I’m getting very clever with the headlines. Intrepid reader Steve Rizzo sent along a link to this job of prognosticating by Mr. Baseball Expert himself, Phil Rogers. And this is ESPN’s list of the top 50 free agents and their guess as to...

Oh no, it’s yet another Sunday on the Couch

Most guys look at NFL Sundays as their time away from the kids, and the wife and a chance for it to be all about them, their big screen TV and six and a half hours of pure football. I don’t have a wife, the judge hasn’t ruled on if I have any kids yet and...

Daily Dose: The worst football game of the year

I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that yesterday’s Bears-Lions game was the worst football game of the year. In fact, it’s the worst game I’ve seen from start to finish since the wondrous Dave Wannstedt era. It wasn’t just...

Continuing Cubs trauma

I obviously struck a chord with my admission in today’s Dose that I’m still having a hard time with what happened to the Cubs in the playoffs. Just when I think I’m out, they pull me back in. There we were on October 14 and thanks to our GameCast of...

Daily Dose: Outcasts, schmoutcasts

You might get two of these today, and if you do, well just feel fortunate. For what you pay for this high-brow entertainment, you are lucky get anything. Or something. As the NFL Network tried to ply my attention on 212 and an NBA doubleheader hovered over channel...