Billy Paultz Reconsidered

Too obvious to be interesting, so let’s talk about this.
I just don’t understand the argument for Devlin. He’s from Downingtown, which is sort of the Philly area and thus presumably explains the above link, but still.
Nobody knows how good either Clark or Devlin will be, since neither has played much. But Clark is obviously more […]

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I seem to remember, as a child, being sort of fascinated by the political conventions.
Now I find them sad and embarrassing. Part of that is the proliferation of media removing the novelty from all things. Part of it is your correspondent getting old. But the most important part is the endlessly depressing fact that politics […]

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Hi. My name is Mike. I’m a sportswriter. Remember me?
I’ve been deep undercover the last couple weeks doing preseason football stuff (Penn State holding its media day the same day as Lancaster-Lebanon League media day for the first time ever really screwed me, man). But the school year begins tomorrow, and soon, praise the Lord, there’ll […]

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August…. the storylines of the baseball season are already old enough to be tiresome, but we’re still a ways from anything decisive. There’s so much failure in baseball that when it isn’t quite leading to anything, it’s tough to take. And everybody knows football is coming. This is a tough time of year to follow baseball […]

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Here’s the latest edition, taped Tuesday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtXrvIA_3MU

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I’m at the Barnstormers’ game, and there’s a local physician’s group that threw out ceremonial first pitches (yes, plural) and was also allowed to take a hand mike and, over the stadium PA, essentially do an advertisement for their practice that lasted like 3-4 minutes. What the… People are actually applauding at all the appropriate […]

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is a wonderful thing, one of those Internet creations no one could have forseen and it’s now hard to imagine being without. But its bios of athletes often include some subtle weirdness.
Dan Kreider’s is only eight sentences long, but one of those is: “Kreider attended the University of New Hampshire and was an A student […]

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Don’t expect to see much about fantasy sports on this blog, but Sports Illustrated’s NFL fantasy preview last week caught my attention.
The most valuable position in real football is of course, QB, but in fantasy it’s running back. SI has Brian Westbrook ranked fourth at RB behind LaDanian Tomlinson, Adrian Peterson and Joseph Addai.
Of that […]

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A tiny annual treat of covering college football is picking up one’s copy of Phil Steele’s annual preview magazine. In addition to being fun to peruse, for sportswriters it’s an essential tool, really 119 team media guides plus much more, an exhaustive effort that annually blows away its competition by prediction accuracy or any other […]

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