Score one for the old guys.

In a tiny item most sports sections today, the AP reports that a federal jury ordered the NFL Players Association to pay $28.1million to retired players after finding that the union actively sought to cut the players out of lucrative licensing deals...

Let me break it down:

1) Hard working, non-Wall Street taxpayers believe it's unfair for them to pay for the mistakes of greedy, irresponsible members of the "financial community" who put the country in this mess. Theirs is a fair and unassailable point.

2) Proponents of the $700 billion...

Oh the fun we're having. The most pop-culture-ized Presidential election in American history takes it to another kitsch level this week

WallMonkeys.com, a company that specializes in custom, life-sized (that's her real height, 5'6") , removable wall graphics, has announced the release of the life-size Sarah Palin wall...

At least we haven't heard about any more dog fighting. Yet this has been a typically tawdry off-season for the National Football League.

From Sypgate to the usual spate of arrests and suspensions -- not to mention Brett Favre keeping the state of Wisconsin up half the night every night...

As I suggested in my last post, sports for children needs serious re-thinking. That doesn't mean I believe kids shouldn't play sports. And if kids do play sports, the only way to do play sports is the right way - not a softer way, or a gentler way, or...

I read about kids who are playing golf at age 5. We're not talking miniature golf here, but golf lessons, every day with a pro. They've got a team of coaches, nutritionist and psychologists. They're in training.

Two summers ago, the Silva family sold their house and two cars in...

LaDainian Tomlinson wants your vote. Today he kicked off a national multi-city campaign tour asking fans to make him their number one pick in the 2008 FOXSports.com Fantasy Football draft. Channeling Hillary Clinton early this morning outside the midtown Manhattan studio of Fox and Friends, Tomlinson confidently...

"It's the last season for the old Yankee Stadium." BLAH. BLAH. BLAH. That's all I hear or see on talk radio ESPN this week. It's the last season for Shea Stadium too, you know. I happen to think Shea is much more of a "New York" stadium but I'm a...

Get over it.

If you think sexuality is bad for women's sports than you ought to stop watching all sports, male or female. Because that's where it's headed -- as if it isn't already there and has been for some time.

But with the advent of "The...

Let me tell you story about a bicycle race:

In 2006, professional cycling had reached the pinnacle of its popularity. Lance Armstrong had left the sport having amazingly won his seventh straight Tour de France. The Tour de France became the centerpiece of the Outdoor Life Network. Cycling was almost...

At the annual NBA draft this Thursday, at least five of the top six picks will be "one-and-done" players. These are players who, blocked by NBA's collectively bargained 19-old year age limit, unconsciously play a year of college ball then go straight to the pros.

The age limit...

In this week's New York Times PLAY newsletter, Will Leitch argues in favor of instant replay for baseball. He supports his position with glib analysis (Buzz Bissinger warned you about that, Will) and, stoking the fires of our nation's generational divide, he couches his argument in anti-baby boomer...

Yesterday, Del Martin (a woman), 87, and Phyllis Lyon (a woman), 84, got married in San Francisco. They are first gay (or "queer" if you prefer) couple to say "I do" in California since last months ruling by that state's supreme court legalizing such unions. Hundreds more same-sex...

Last summer would've been a good time for Michael Strahan to quit football. He was under a lot of stress. His marriage was in a shambles. His wife had been throwing out details of their personal life to the news media like an angry girlfriend tosses her cheating...

The New York Times ran an editorial this week commenting on the decision by the Supreme Court earlier the week not to hear Major League Baseball Advanced Media's appeal of a Federal Court of Appeals ruling that Major League Baseball cannot charge Fantasy Baseball Leagues licensing fees for...

I doubt Cliff Floyd has heard of Bill James, or sabermetrics. I'm willing to stake my Huffington Post paycheck he has no idea what his VORP (value over replacement player) level is, how high his PECOTA (player and empirical comparison optimization...

When my father took me to my first NFL game in 1974, Jets-Dolphins at Shea Stadium, I was eager to see, in real life, the big stars -- Larry Csonka, Bob Griese, Paul Warfield and Joe Namath. But my father told me "Don't...

Lake Tranquility is the perfect size for hockey. It's small enough to freeze but big enough to set up two goals without getting in other people's way. A high school winter break can drag on if you don't keep busy. So John invited us to play ice hockey...

Matt Walsh had his fifteen minutes of fame this weekend. The former New England Patriots video assistant-cum-Hawaiian golf pro coolly handled the first two steps in what, these days, has become an all too common three-step scandal progression cycle in big time sports: (1) you're center of an investigation (2)...

My grandfather came from a small village outside of Minsk in Belarus. It was a real Fiddler on the Roof situation. Open farms, horses and hard times. You know anything about Belarus? These are the jokers who were so drunk they shot down an air balloon a few years...