10 key questions heading into NFL season (The Shelby Star)
10 key questions heading into NFL season (The Shelby Star)
Don t get me wrong, I m looking forward to the Major League Baseball pennant/wild card races and the postseason as much as the next fan, but around this time every year I and many start getting excited about the upcoming NFL season.
Fix the fix on sports (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
The summer is shaping up as a record breaker in the wide world of sports one more likely to disappoint than please. Allegations of cheating and criminal behavior abound, from the baseball diamond to the basketball court. It’s time to remember that sport is about character, not bad characters.
Legacies linked, Bonds and Selig are warily apart (USA Today)
This is the uneasy dance between two of baseball’s most prominent figures: Bonds, his spectacular play clouded by questions of whether he used performance-enhancing drugs; and Selig, the game’s caretaker at a time of record revenue and attendance and allegations from Congress that he and other officials didn’t move fast enough to stop players from using steroids.
Weekly Royals Minor League Report (The Morning News)
The 2007 Major League Baseball First-Year Player draft is now in the books. However, different from NBA and NFL drafts, you won’t see any well-suited experts on ESPN debating which teams had the best draft. It’s another of the beautiful elements of baseball. Being drafted brings only one guarantee; the battle to reach the major leagues is just beginning.
NFL camps add a breeze to summer (The Record)
It’s safe to say that “rookies report” never will have the same ring and carry the same weight as “pitchers and catchers report.” The first phrase refers to NFL training camps, because some teams ask their rookies to report earlier than their veteran players.
Chaos reigns in big leagues (Philadelphia Tribune)
If you have been following the latest news in the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball, it looks like the commissioners in each sport have a lot of work to do. They all have a tough job in front of them.
Baseball by the numbers (Detroit Free Press)
588 Career home runs for Reds outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. — sixth on the all-time list. Griffey is 15 behind Sammy Sosa, 72 behind Willie Mays. 17 Solo home runs by Devil Rays first baseman Carlos Pena this season. The ex-Tiger has 24 overall and is hitting .283. 1
A much deeper betrayal (The Times and Democrat)
The world of sports has yet another black eye. Recently, the world was informed about Tim Donaghy, a former NBA referee, and his involvement with gambling. With the FBI investigating Donaghy, the NBA has this gray cloud over it just like the NFL and Major League Baseball.
Heath Haussamen: Recent scandals show the importance of checks, balances (Albuquerque Tribune)
Friday evening, three successive stories on EPSN were about an NFL quarterback charged with running an illegal dogfighting ring, an FBI investigation into whether an NBA referee illegally bet on games he called and the notorious Barry Bonds being booed as he approached baseball’s all-time home-run record.
Sports digest: Vick, health care top issues at NFL meeting (El Paso Times)
WASHINGTON — NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and players’ union head Gene Upshaw met with nearly a dozen former players Tuesday to discuss a new joint effort to look into disability pay and health care for retirees.