WHY WE LOVED TOM MENINO

The city of Boston lost a big part of its soul on Thursday. Thomas Menino, who stayed in the mayor's chair longer than anyone in the storied political history of the Old Towne, passed away after a bout with cancer.When word spread of his not-so-sudden, but still suprising death, reaction across the region was pretty much the same: "Awe, I loved mayor Menino, he was a great man and was one of us." Menino loved Boston...

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JOSE CANSECO AND HIS A.D.D PROBLEM

We are a long ways off from April 1 but the biggest fool in the history of major leaguebaseball did something that produced headlines around the country that made us wonderif April Fool's Day had come early.Early Tuesday morning,  Jose Canseco channeled his inner Plaxico Burress and accidentallyshot himself. Yep, the Steroid King was cleaning his gun at 2:30 p.m. which is always justa great time to pipe and polish a weapon, when suddenly...

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UNC SHAME AND WHY I DON'T CARE

I'm a graduate of UNC and as a former sportscaster with a blog that has taken shots at athletes and institutions over the past few years, a lot of people wanted my opinion about the school and athletic program which was recently outed for steering 'student-athletes' into bogus classes to remain eligible.I don't care.UNC and the athletic program have now become fodder for the late night talk shows,sports talk radio, internet chat rooms, and columnists...

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TED BISHOP AND A DEATH BY TWEET

I've often said the only thing more dangerous than Plaxico Burress with a loaded gunin his waistband, is a sports figure with a Twitter account. Many of them tend to stray far from their expertise and intellectual level and try to be funny in 140 characters orless, often shooting themselves in the foot. Who can forget Charlie Villaneuva, NBA player and aspiring rocket scientist sendinghis thoughts out during halftime of game?"In da locker room, snuck...

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NOTRE DAME'S RECEIVER AND THE PORN STAR

Somewhere in San Diego, Manti' Te'o must be smiling---and laughing his butt off.The former Notre Dame star who was ridiculed mercilessly for carrying on a relationship with girl who didn't really exist, now gets to watch another player from under the golden dome get raked over the coals for his dalliance with a porn star---and there are pictures to prove it.A selfie of Fighting Irish wide receiver Justin Brent between...

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PERCY HARVIN: ANOTHER BAD ORANGE FROM FLORIDA

After acquiring Percy Harvin from Seattle, New York Jets general John Idzik proclaimedit to be a 'coup' for the franchise. He and Rex Ryan beamed from ear-to-ear andproclaimed the mercurial receiver to be a 'good fit' for the team's chemistry in thelocker room.Right. That's why Seattle traded him to the Jets for a conditional sixth-round draft pickwhich is only slightly more valuable than a dozen pair of used Nike cleats. Harvey becameso toxic in...

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PEYTON MANNING'S RECORD REVEALS TOM BRADY'S GREATNESS

Peyton Manning has another NFL record and the sports world is celebrating his greatnessonce again. By the time the quarterback of the Denver Broncos calls it quits, he's likelyto hold every individual passing mark in the record books.I guess that's great and it'll make for one heckuva plaque under his bust in the Hall ofFame, but for all those records, Manning has just one Super Bowl ring. Same goes forBrett Favre, whom he just surpassed for the...

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THE 'GUILTY' SCENT OF A COWBOYS THIEF

After dealing with the scandals of Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson, and Greg Hardyover the last few months, I imagine that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell could onlyshake his head when this story came across his desk:Dallas Cowboys running back Joe Randle arrested for stealing a tester bottle of cologneand a two-pack of Polo underwear.Not exactly the kind of thing that's going to cause the NFL to lose its Annheiser-Busch sponsorship, but it probably...

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RYDER CUP 'TASK FORCE'? LOL

Yep, a task force. That's going to end the misery of the United States in the Ryder Cup.After the U.S recently got embarrassed for the sixth time in the last seven Ryder Cups andPhil Mickelson whined like a petulant 5-year-old child in Toys R Us that didn't get a newTransformer set, an 11-member task force has been set up to try to end the futility of theUnited States in the Ryder Cup.Mickelson and Tiger Woods are on the task force, so...

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THE SICKNESS AT SAYREVILLE HIGH

The world of sports has long been dripping with scandal, so it's hard to be shocked by anything that arises from the athletic abyss these days. We thought the sexual abuse scandal at Penn State scraped the bottom of its floor when a longtime assistant coach was sent to prison for being a pedophile, scarring dozens of children for life whilebringing down a coaching legend.We believed Joe Paterno was a man of impeccable character...

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IT'S BUCK SHOWALTER'S TIME

 If Buck Showalter has been a tortured soul, it's certainly easy to understand why. He ledthe New York Yankees into the playoffs in 1995, but was fired after losing to the SeattleMariners. Joe Torre took over the next season and promptly led the Yankees to four WorldSeries titles in the next five years. Showalter was then hired to build the Arizona Diamondbacks from scratch. But after the 2000 season, Showalter was asked to walk away from the...

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