Plaxico Burress was curiously unapologetic. Noting that he hadn’t “lost any sleep” during his suspension, Burress returned to Giants practice on Monday following the team’s 44-6 rout of the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday. Burress had been suspended for two weeks and one game after Burress skipped a team meeting two weeks ago without notifying the…
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Spanish team needs to fully apologize
The most offensive statement concerning the Spanish basketball team’s controversial photo was not the actual photo itself, but in the apology, or lack thereof, that followed afterward. By now, the photo has made its rounds on the Internet and sports talk shows. It shows the 15 Spanish players on the national team in uniform pulling…
Close but?: Mussina on the verge
Mike Mussina can whittle his illustrious career down into one word. Almost. Four times in his career, he’s almost thrown a perfect game. In four different seasons, he’s almost won 20 games. He’s almost won a Cy Young, finishing in the top six eight separate times. And, perhaps the most frustrating to Mussina, he’s almost…
No longer a one-pitch wonder, Wang dominates Indians
It was on this very same field last October, Cleveland’s Progressive Field, when the sinker wasn’t sinking, and Chien Ming Wang was helpless as the Yankees endured another early exit from the playoffs. In just 5 2/3 innings of work, he allowed 12 runs and set off a cascade of arguments into whether Wang was…
Greene’s decision to leave a mistake
In a move that came as no surprise, freshman forward Donte Greene declared himself eligible for the NBA draft last Wednesday, forgoing his final three years at Syracuse. Greene can still remove his name by June 16th as long as he doesn’t hire an agent. “After discussing my future plans with my family and Coach…
Tyree cements place in history
There are plays that define Super Bowls. There was Joe Montana to Dwight Clark for “The Catch.” There was Mike Jones gobbling up Kevin Dyson on the 1-yard line for “The Stop.” There was Joe Namath and “The Prediction.” And now, for David Tyree and Eli Manning, there is “The Play.” Tyree, a former Syracuse…
Mitchell Report: Much Ado About Nothing
One year of investigating and $30 million later, and the much anticipated Mitchell Report was much ado about nothing. The report, released last week, named roughly 80 players – some of them at the forefront of baseball – linking these athletes to performance enhancing drugs. It was worth a day-long special on ESPN and grabbed…
For Bonds, apologizing would go a long way
If I’ve learned anything about Barry Bonds over the course of his career, and especially in recent years, is that you can never fully give up on him. Bonds, perhaps the more polarizing figure in sports in recent years, seems to thrive in conflict, turning boos into awe when sending a pitch into orbit. When…
Clemens returns, but to what result?
A die-hard Red Sox fan and a former co-host on my sports talk show didn’t seem to mind losing the Roger Clemens sweepstakes yesterday. I posed the question, “See the Yankees got the Rocket? Are you [angry]?” “Not at all,” he answered. After all, it was the Yankees, not the Red Sox, who were trailing…
UCLA, Florida not quite a rematch
Saturday’s UCLA-Florida game shouldn’t be called a rematch. Yes, Florida returns every key player from last year’s team with the exception of reserve forward Adrian Moss. Yes, future pros Joakim Noah, Al Horford and Corey Brewer have each had another stellar year. And, yes, it seems the smart money is on Billy Donovan’s team to…