Kind of getting to be a routine for me to eulogize athletes who pass away. It isn’t like it doesn’t happen all the time even without a pandemic, but it also does feel like more than usual are dying. Illusion … Continue reading Sports Corner Remembers Tommy Lasorda

We here at Sports Corner aren’t much for “year in review” stuff. You were there for it, I was there for it, you know what you want to remember and what you want to forget (especially this year). We prefer … Continue reading Sports Corner Gets Ready for the Playoffs

With the news that the baseball team in Cleveland is apparently getting rid of its racist nickname and logo (though not till after another full season of selling Chief Wahoo merchandise), people are pondering the next name for the team. … Continue reading Sports Corner Salutes the Cleveland Spiders

To be honest, I don’t know a ton about soccer. But it’s fair to say that Diego Maradona – usually just called by his last name – had an outsized presence. His successes on the Argentinian national team and as … Continue reading Sports Corner Remembers Maradona

Tonight is the NBA Draft, where the best young college and international players are told who will be employing them for the next four years and where they will have to live. It’s something that is a key part of … Continue reading Sports Corner Makes Its Draft Picks

I was going to just offer congratulations to the Dodgers and their fans on their latest championship. But news of Justin Turner’s positive test, how it was handled by MLB, and his presence on the field after the game just … Continue reading Sports Corner Waves Goodbye to Baseball 2020

Mike “Doc” Emrick announced his retirement on Monday. Emrick had a stories 47 year long career as a hockey play by play man, working for the Devils and the Flyers, and also for pretty much every American TV network that … Continue reading Sports Corner Salutes Doc Emrick

Boy, it has been a rough patch for baseball fans as two more Hall of Famers have left us. Whitey Ford was the greatest of Yankees starting pitchers and the last of the legendary players of their era of dominance. … Continue reading Sports Corner Celebrates Whitey Ford and Joe Morgan

I am a bit young to have seen Bob Gibson pitch. But his 1968 season loomed over the baseball of my youth like Mt. Rainier over Seattle. A 1.12 ERA. A season so good that it was the final straw … Continue reading Sports Corner Remembers Bob Gibson

As the Tampa Bay Lightning celebrate their second Stanley Cup, our attention shifts to to the baseball playoffs, where the Tampa Bay Rays are the AL’s top seed. Even as Tom Brady settles in as the new QB of the … Continue reading Sports Corner Visits Tampa Bay

There is a non-zero chance that next Wednesday night, there will be a Stanley Cup Finals game 7, an NBA Western Conference game seven, and a full slate of MLB playoffs. Alas, the WNBA is scheduled to have the night … Continue reading Sports Corner Goes to All the Playoffs

Name a sport, and it’s probably going on right now. On Sunday you could have watched the tennis US Open, an NBA playoff, an NHL playoff, a full slate of MLB games, WNBA games, the first weekend of a new … Continue reading Sports Corner Catches Its Breath

I have lived within three miles of Shea Stadium/Citi Field most of my life, so it’s not a surprise I became a Mets fan. I didn’t choose the Mets because Tom Seaver was still on the team when I discovered … Continue reading Sports Corner Remembers Tom Seaver and Lou Brock

During the last week, I found myself remembering something Howard Cosell purportedly said about sports. Essentially, it’s only just a game AND it’s more than just a game. The protests by athletes across the sports world spoke to the power … Continue reading Sports Corner Ponders Itself

As you might have heard, rising Padres superstar Fernando Tatis Jr. swung at a very juicy 3-0 pitch on Monday night. With the bases loaded. While his team had a large lead. One grand slam later, the Rangers decided this … Continue reading Sports Corner Flaunts the Unwritten Rules

For a long time, my morning routine included listening to Mike and Mike in the Morning/Golic and Wingo, and seeing what was going on in the baseball world through NBC’s Hardball Talk blog.  Last week, Mike Golic’s two decades as … Continue reading Sports Corner Commiserates with Golic and Calcaterra

For good or for ill, major league baseball returns for a 60 game season tomorrow.  I am not as excited as I could be, in part because I don’t really expect the season not to be interrupted by an outbreak … Continue reading Sports Corner Throws Out the First Pitch

Slowly and unsteadily, the sports world is returning.  Today, the Premier League comes back, joining many of Europe’s soccer leagues.  Boxing and UFC have restarted, the Belmont Stakes will be taking place on Saturday, and the NBA continues to plan … Continue reading Sports Corner Peeks Out from the Bubble

I am a bit pressed for time today, so let’s just offer a salute to Kenny Atkinson, whose reward for building a team that attracted two of the best players in the NBA was to be fired before he really … Continue reading Sports Corner – March 11, 2020

This has not been a pleasant season for the Knicks or their fans.  As usual. We’ve seen young players stuck on the bench, coaches and management fired and hired, all sort of efforts to reinvent the wheel without a basic … Continue reading Sports Corner – March 4, 2020

Let’s hear it for David Ayres, the operations manager and occasional Zamboni driver who became the emergency goalie for the Carolina Hurricanes and also became a star.  At least for a few days.  It’s the sort of story they make … Continue reading Sports Corner – February 26, 2020