Billy Paultz Reconsidered

Tiger’s coming back next week, which is certainly good news for the PGA Tour and its sponsors.
The opinion that he’ll be better than ever is out there, and not just among Mark O’Meara and John Cook, two senior-tour players who are Tiger’s boys and thus have this weird and annoying spokesman/acolyte role.
Tiger has never been better than in […]

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Here’s your moment of zen.

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Bill James on A-Rod:
“Baseball allowed a situation to develop in which it was in the self-interest of players to use steroids. Now we are very angry with people because they did what the system rewarded them for doing.”
That’s about it. It was possible to be, uh, let’s go with not unsympathetic to A-Rod until the […]

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Here’s a wonderful idea that’s never going to happen: when a player tests positive for PEDs, he’s banned from the sport for a year, and his team is ineligible for postseason play in the same year.

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 on the economic mess.
Keynesian theory, in my limited understanding, holds that in bad economic times, when the people can’t spend money, the government has to, and therefore almost any economic stimulus is better than nothing.
That seems, um, extreme, but Chait makes a point I found compelling. World War II got us out of the Great […]

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Jelani Jenkins, the Olny (Md.) linebacker who would have made this Penn State recruiting class a great one, chose Florida over PSU in a letter-of-intent signing ceremony this morning at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School.
Jenkins is rated as the first or second LB in the class of 2009, and among the top 10 […]

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Ignore the inevitable claims that Sunday’s game was the best, or even one of the best, Super Bowls. XLIII was at best the third-best Supe involving the Steelers, considerably inferior to the two Dallas-Pittsburgh games, 1975 (21-17; the one where Lynn  Swann went nuts) and ‘78 (35-31, the one where Jackie Smith dropped a game-winner).
There was very […]

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