Heath Haussamen: Recent scandals show the importance of checks, balances (Albuquerque Tribune)
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.
Talent’s spread thin among baseball’s elite (The Greyhound)
Woe to the short-sighted fool. You say baseball is on the ascent, but fans outside of the New York-Boston bubble are clamoring for balance in baseball. And they’re pointing their fingers at you, Mr. Selig. The answer to baseball’s problems isn’t eliminating steroids, relocating poor franchises, building new stadiums or putting “Extra Innings” on Comcast.
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.
Trying times for commissioners of three major pro sports (USA Today)
A confluence of events has put the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball commissioners in a leadership crisis. Eric Dezenhall, CEO of Dezenhall Resources, a Washington-based crisis-management firm, and David Gergen, director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard, offer their assessments of each commissioner’s situation.
A bad week for sports (Visalia Times-Delta)
The three major sports in the United States seem to making news for all the wrong reasons. The NBA has a referee betting scandal on its hands, one of the NFL’s biggest stars was indicted for his alleged involvement in dogfighting and Major League Baseball continues to deal with a steroid problem.
Sports key to Bedford’s success (Newark Post)
As an athlete and coach, Curt Bedford enjoyed outstanding runs at Newark High School. Granted, he didn’t attain the competitive status of Yellowjacket alums such as former major league baseball players Brian Lesher and Derrick May, NFL lineman Kwame Harris, or former NBA starter Terence Stansbury.
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.