Tampa Rays Attendance Just Fine

Not many teams win a division and finish in the bottom five in attendance in the same season. Tampa Bay is on pace to do that – and they should be ecstatic with the numbers. Rome was not built in a day – Rays fans can attest to that. Using average per game attendance and [...]

Lebron Needs Help

Classic sudden death playoff games break one of two ways, the game creates a legend or a legend makes the game. Sunday, one legend and one superstar made the game. Forget Bird vs. Wilkins from ‘88, go back to Oscar Robertson and Sam Jones in 1963 to find the only other time two players scored [...]

Rays Fans Need to See More

Two months of good play does not make up for ten years of ineptitude, at least according to Tampa Bay Rays fans. Surprisingly atop the competitive AL East, ahead of mighty Boston and New York, Tampa ranks 27th in MLB attendance, next to last in the AL.
Local and national media have criticized Rays fans this [...]

Why Cavs Can Beat Boston

Two or three losses makes you think, at four its a steak, now Boston’s road problems are a troubling trend, following its fifth straight post-season road loss in Cleveland, evening up the Eastern Semifinal at two games apiece. Home-road dichotomy aside, the Celtics find themselves in trouble because they wilt under pressure.
Boston trailed by 3 [...]

Rutgers-UConn: Who Wins in Notre Dame Football Debate?

Earlier this week UConn reached an agreement with Connecticut state legislators that allows the Huskies to enter a six-game football series against Notre Dame from 2011-2017 with the three Connecticut “home games” staged at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, MA, or Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. The agreement scales down the original 10-game package where [...]

NBA Trade Deadline Winners

What a difference a year makes. 2008 proved anything but quiet at the deadline with a flurry of past and future All-Stars, a hall-0f-famer, big contracts, and championship contenders all involved. Needless to say it impacted the playoff landscape. With the phones silenced for now, time to assess the damage. We’ll focus on the teams [...]

Reign in the Hype on College Recruiting Day

National signing day, thanks to the proliferation of the Internet and specialized cable sports networks, has pushed the media hype machine down to the high school level. It’s college football’s version of the NFL Draft. The timing works nicely for college football, a month after the BCS championship game, allowing the season recaps and annual [...]