Two baseball games in four days ended with questionable calls, leading all the pundits to debate the expanded or more effective use of instant replay once more. Speaking as a Mets fan, I didn’t mind how it came out. Speaking … Continue reading Sports Corner Goes to the Instant Replay

A new baseball season begins tomorrow, and with it the hopes of 30 teams for a season of more wins than losses, and more games played than postponed. The biggest stat of the season could be “most players vaccinated,” and … Continue reading Sports Corner Throws Out the First Pitch

I can’t really say that I know much about college basketball now. I don’t have cable, I don’t really keep track of things with all the one and done stars, and the whole enterprise is tainted by the grubby fingers … Continue reading Sports Corner – Special March Madness Edition

As ever, even though there is so much sports action, the NFL manages to steal the spotlight. Yesterday, teams had to decide who gets the “franchise tag” applied to them, a procedure that seems to be meant to make sure … Continue reading Sports Corner Gets the Franchise Tag

A lot going on in actual games, some of which have actual fans for better and (probably) for worse. Spring training has started and Fernando Tatis is signed for life. The Nets are starting to come together even without KD. … Continue reading Sports Corner Trades Its QB

There is plenty of sports. The Super Bowl is just behind us, the NBA and NHL are going along, as is college basketball. Golf gears up for Pebble Beach, and the Australian Open is underway. And yet I seem to … Continue reading Sports Corner Tries to Pay Attention to the Games

There isn’t much I can add about Henry Aaron (he never liked being called “Hank”) that you haven’t read or seen or heard. I am just old enough to remember him breaking the record in the same way I remember … Continue reading Sports Corner Honors the Legacy of Henry Aaron

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