Posts tagged with 'Kenneth_England'

    • Moss' Demise Greatly Exaggerated

      POSTED BY KENNETH ENGLAND, OCTOBER 25 2007 02:06 PM | PERMALINK

      If you've spent much time reading my columns here over the summer, you've probably noticed by now that I tend to spend a lot of energy and column space analyzing not only sports, but analyzing the analysts that analyze sports. That is to say I spend a lot of time measuring the entirety of the sports journalist field. The predictions, the hype, the fabricated controversies, it all piques my interest. Typically, sports prognostication by both fans and analysts can be a dicey thing. A lot of predictions...

    • BizarrOhio

      POSTED BY KENNETH ENGLAND, OCTOBER 24 2007 11:55 AM | PERMALINK

      There's something strange in the air here in Ohio. Every day, I feel as if I have awoken to a mirror universe, bizarro world existence. As if everything I know to be true about reality has been completely turned upside-down and inside-out. It goes beyond the three straight days of rain here after a summer that had me wondering if I was living in the midwest or the Sahara. No, it's far deeper than that. It's the realization of what has happened to professional football in this state. It's the...

    • The Sports Cliche Problem

      POSTED BY KENNETH ENGLAND, OCTOBER 22 2007 03:25 PM | PERMALINK

       

      Maybe Leaf wasn't crazy when he attacked Jay Posner in the locker room.
      Maybe he was tired of being asked stupid questions by reporters?
      On second thought, no, Leaf was just crazy.

      I have something important that I want to say to all sports reporters who find themselves in the position of interviewing professional athletes. Not athletes in any particular league, but all professional athletes in general. This statement also goes out to all consumers of sports media in the hopes that they will...

    • Torre the Right Man for the Job

      POSTED BY KENNETH ENGLAND, OCTOBER 18 2007 09:45 AM | PERMALINK

      One of the funniest long-standing jokes in modern sports is certainly Steinbrenner's insane circus of managers with the Yankees. I have come to expect insanity regarding this from the Yankees front office (even though it's been a long, relatively calm era under Torre.) I have even come to expect the insane expectations and reactive attitude of the New York media on this issue, so it doesn't surprise me to see the New York sports news outlets to be advocating a change at manager. What really surprises...

    • Sports News, or Sports Drama?

      POSTED BY KENNETH ENGLAND, OCTOBER 16 2007 09:42 AM | PERMALINK

      There has been a pathetic change in the sports media today, one that stands very counter to the traditional notion of sports reporting. Sports reporting used to be about scores and highlights, stats and outcomes, and other measurable aspects of sports. Nowadays, flipping on Sportscenter one is more likely to be inundated with a sappy, feel-good story or yet another obsessive piece on Terrel Owen's latest dramatics. Just like the sordid world news model the "regular" 24-hour news channels now follow,...

    • Cubs Eulogizing

      POSTED BY KENNETH ENGLAND, OCTOBER 10 2007 09:00 AM | PERMALINK

      Another year of Cubs optimism turned sour

      If this young fall season has reiterated anything to us as sports fans, it is the utter hell that is the existence of a Cubs fan. Another year, another tease. Another year started off in spring with bitter cynicism, melted by humid summer months of good play, then refrozen by a fall collapse.

      And I get to do it all again next year. Hello, I am a Cubs fan, and this is my plight. Gather round all you Cardinals, Astros and White Sox fans, gather around and...

    • Top Ten Worst Sports Fans

      POSTED BY KENNETH ENGLAND, AUGUST 27 2007 02:00 PM | PERMALINK

      10.) Cincinnati Bengals fans: Tigers can't change their stripes, and Cincinnati Bengals fans can't change how fickle they are. During the lean years of futility in the franchise history, in which the team posted 14 consecutive losing seasons, seeing a Bengals jersey on the street happened about as many times as Pete Rose turns down a bet ... very rarely. Now that Marvin Lewis has brought the Bengals back to the elite levels of the NFL, the city is awash in a hyperactive frenzy of orange and black in...

    • NFL Denies Reports of Vick Suspension

      POSTED BY KENNETH ENGLAND, AUGUST 13 2007 08:25 PM | PERMALINK

      The NFL denied reports yesterday that Goodell was ready to hand down a year-long suspension for Mike Vick, as had been reported on Yahoo. Vick had been told not to report to training camp, but so far no other sentence has been handed down. The commissioners’ office is reported now to still be in a fact-finding mode and has not yet made any decision concerning further disciplinary actions regarding the embattled Quarterback. Analysts, however, are still predicting a suspension in the next two...

    • Cubs Remain Cursed!

      POSTED BY KENNETH ENGLAND, AUGUST 07 2007 03:23 PM | PERMALINK

      Given the Cubs' torrid play over the last month and their steady gain on the first place position in the NL central, the Cubs appeared to be in the midst of a season of destiny stirring memories of their amazing (and heartbreaking) play during the "year of the Bartman." Just as then, Cubs fans have been bracing themselves for the inevitable "the-curse-raises-its-ugly-head" moment. They probably felt that they had seen it when their best hitter, Alfonso Soriano, pulled up with an obviously painful...

    • Tom Glavine May Be Baseball’s Last 300 Game Winner

      POSTED BY KENNETH ENGLAND, AUGUST 06 2007 06:30 PM | PERMALINK

      With Tom Glavine’s 300th win last night over the Cubs, baseball fans have most likely witnessed the last time ever that a pitcher will hit that hallowed mark. Glavine makes the 23rd pitcher to make the list of 300 game winners, and surprisingly, only the fifth lefthander on the list.

      The bleak future of 300 game winners, in my opinion, has only one legitimate contender left to claim that mark. Randy Johnson, who only needs 16 wins to hit 300, is currently in the midst of a stint on the...