Somehow, despite not being much of a soccer fan and despite all the terrible stuff surrounding the World Cup, I am paying a lot of attention to it. The daily threads here help, but so does just the spectacle and … Continue reading Sports Corner Advances to the Next Round

Baseball season is over. Hot Stove League season begins. With a few big names and lots of good players on the market. Including the likely AL MVP and Cy Young Award winner. Will the deck be shuffled enough to change … Continue reading Sports Corner Ignites the Hot Stove

Hello, friends. Been a busy month for me with no time to post till now. But I am sure the various football and baseball threads have kept you busy, as has all the sports to choose from. And what IS … Continue reading Sports Corner Returns

Yours truly, as I have noted from time to time, is ambivalent about America’s single most popular form of entertainment. On the one hand, it’s violent and exploitative and laced with sexism and racism and homophobia and if it went … Continue reading Sports Corner Acknowledges Football Season

A week later, the dust has settled on an epic MLB trade deadline day. I think it’s clear that no player of Juan Soto’s stature has ever been traded, though odds are getting higher and higher that we will see … Continue reading Sports Corner Makes All the Trades

It’s not that there isn’t much going on in July. Except that there isn’t. Wimbledon is over, the British Open is over, the NBA and NHL are more or less on vacation, and while there’s plenty of baseball, the daily … Continue reading Sports Corner Moves Out of the July Doldrums

Or it would if they offered me a contract. For now, though, I will just be content with the Knicks’ signings, even as the dust settles from an eventful if not game-changing Free Agent Weekend. Not yet, at any rate, … Continue reading Sports Corner Signs with the Knicks

The NBA season is over! All hail the Warriors! OK, now that that’s done, we can start the off season! The NBA Draft is tomorrow, and for the first time in ages, no one can say with any certainty who … Continue reading Sports Corner Trades Up

Or manager. But there are a lot of openings now, from the surprise firing of Joe Maddon to the slightly less surprising departure of Quin Snyder. It’s the nature of sports in 2022 for the people put in charge of … Continue reading Sports Corner Looks for a New Coach

Huge upset in the Derby! The Angels are…good? Playoffs! Playoffs! The NBA Draft Lottery! More baseball! The PGA Championship! The French Open! Something for everyone, unless you want to watch the NFL (and I doubt you or anyone else is … Continue reading Sports Corner Loves May Sports

NBA playoffs, NHL playoffs, baseball season, NFL draft, Champions League…so much happening and so little time for it all. But time we shall make to talk about it, even if I don’t have the time to write much about it … Continue reading Sports Corner Can’t Keep Up!

Have to admit, I don’t remember Mike Bossy that well. He was in his prime when I was just barely into my adolescence. But I remember the role he played in helping to form the Islanders’ dynasty of the 80s. … Continue reading Sports Corner Remembers Mike Bossy

Yeah, every sport has an opening day. But we here at Sports Corner are baseball fans first and foremost, and there is still something special about the first day of the season. That first pitch. The knowledge that for one … Continue reading Sports Corner Celebrates Opening Day

So much going on with player movement as we have the NFL’s “legal tampering period” and a rather large number of QBs changing teams, MLB racing to get the rosters in place now that the lockout is over, and the … Continue reading Sports Corner Watches ALL the Trades

I don’t really follow college basketball these days. Too many programs, too many new faces, way too many games. and maybe a bit of disgust at a system that lionizes coaches over players and has only of late been forced … Continue reading Sports Corner Gets Ready for March Madness

Yep, the NBA, minus a handful of superstars and inexplicably Obi Toppin, gets a full week off now. Good for the players to rest up for what could be a pretty entertaining charge to the end of the season and … Continue reading Sports Corner Enjoys the All-Star Break

We offered Daryl Morey half a Honus Wagner baseball card, season tickets to New York Generals games, and lunch with Stephen A. Smith. He hasn’t accepted yet, but I am sure it’s only a matter of time. Busy week on … Continue reading Sports Corner Trades for Ben Simmons

There was some doubt as to whether David Ortiz would be elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame last night. Because of a somewhat iffy report in 2009 he’d tested positive for PEDs as part of the (supposedly classified) testing … Continue reading Sports Corner Congratulates Big Papi

There weren’t many firings on “Black Monday,” but they affected four storied franchises in the Giants, Dolphins, Bears, and Vikings. And they might be more as we go along. New GMs and new coaches are coming. And there were some … Continue reading Sports Corner Makes Some Front Office Changes

So much about 2021 that we want to move on from. Including a sports year that has struggled and will continue to struggle with COVID outbreaks, saw the passing of Henry Aaron and Elgin Baylor and just yesterday John Madden … Continue reading Sports Corner Looks Back at 2021