Billy Paultz Reconsidered

And now, the Lancaster Scene Item of the Week, nearly certain to not become a regular feature of the Jockstrap Chronicles…
From an ad for a martial-arts class: “Other weapons studied include the broken bottle, tire iron, steel pipe, two-by-four and the Louisville slugger ballbat.”
Two reactions:
1. What about a poin-ted stick? (for Monty Python fans only)
2. […]

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Can we please, please, please not go down this road?

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You knew it would happen eventually: naming rights for high school stadiums. Eventually came to Hempfield School District Wednesday when it announced an agreement with Lancaster’s Market Street Sports Group to procure corporate sponsorships for Hempfield facilities and activities.
MSSG consists of ex-Lancaster Barnstormers front office folk Joe Pinto, Jason Jesberger and Jeff Bertoni (the erstwhile I.M. […]

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That it was a dull holiday weekend became clear when I found myself watching the selection show for the NCAA baseball tournament on ESPN Memorial Day. These “minor” holidays suck for those of us who have Mondays off anyway.
(And yes, in anticipation of huffy e-mails and as the son of a decorated Korean War veteran, […]

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Re: Cocktails at the Penn State All-Sports Museum Thursday night, followed by dinner in PSU president’s luxury box at Beaver Stadium, and then dessert and drinks at the Joe Paterno residence.
That so many sportswriters got spouses/significant others to get dressed up and schlep to Happy Valley from all over the state on a weeknight could have […]

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 I had promised in this blog’s initial post to say something about “American Idol,” and since this season’s edition ended last night, now seems like the time…
The basic problem is that “Idol” reduces music to nothing but a fame-creation substance, and a fame-creation substance is the worst thing music can be.
For a half-century in America, […]

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So Jason Giambi injects some candid truth into the endless and dreary steroid debate, and a couple days later the New York Daily News, citing unnamed sources, reports that Giambi tested positive for amphetamines “within the past year.”
Funny that that came up now, isn’t it? Wonder where a New York paper would get that information?
A […]

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A couple reactions to the Phillies’ insanely ridiculous, and yet quintessentially Phils-esque, win over the Fish Wednesday:
1. Sunday News photographer Jeff Ruppenthal is legendary for many things - praising the fans who threw batteries at J.D. Drew, for example, or predicting that the Sixers would win and lose (sometimes in the same day) every playoff […]

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If you believe San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams (and I do and you should), Jason Giambi admitted using steroids and human growth hormone back in 2003, in grand jury testimony during the Balco investigation.
In February of 2005 Giambi apologized to the fans, his teammates, the Yankee organization, baseball, his family, friends […]

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We should all give Michael Vick a break and lighten up about dog fighting, according to Clinton Portis. They’re his dogs, after all. He owns them.

         The mind boggles….

 With the Phillies in Florida tonight, check out Miguel Cabrera. He looks like the teenage Monica from “Friends.” If the camera adds 10 pounds, exactly how many […]

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