Perhaps you saw it at the end of the World Series, but likely not, since it was past midnight and the trend these days is to have memorable baseball moment long after any impressionable children can be transfixed.
What was on display in the Colorado Ballpark Named For A Rather Famous Colorado Beer was baseball’s new empire, in all its glory and excess – which, at the same time, is both great for the game and rather troubling.
No doubt, the Boston Red Sox were the best team around in 2007...

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Some of the closest NFL followers have gone into the concession business since New England checked its guts and rallied past Indianapolis.
Not only have they conceded the Patriots the Super Bowl in February, a few have even gone further ahead and booked 19-0, a figure the 1972 Dolphins may or may not celebrate – Don Shula even suggested an asterisk, invoking that whole spying deal.
Pats or not, the NFL’s first half has already invoked its share of observations and questions from this post – like, is anyone in the West (AFC or NFC) any good? Herewith a brief analysis of the whole deal.
AFC East – Well, we found out what happened when you give Tom Brady a half-decent group of receivers – 33 touchdowns, just four picks. That’s rather good...

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Examine the current state of college basketball, and you’re sure to find large quantities of contradictions that make this game both great and frustrating at the same time.
Yes, it’s great to have more talent on hand because of the NBA’s 19-year-old rule. Yet that value gets diminished when you know those elite kids aren’t likely to stay on campus for more than a year, as Greg Oden and Kevin Durant showed.
It’s a sham, really. A lot of coaches don’t like the arrangement, and say so publicly. Mike Krzyzewski has offered that the NBA return to its previous rule or require two years of college time, so that the kids actually get something near an education.
However, those same coaches would be out of a job if they didn’t span the earth for transient talents...

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Okay, it officially went too far late in October, just before the Red Sox proceeded to sweep Colorado out of the World Series. It was one of those “signs of the apocalypse” Sports Illustrated likes to point out.
Here stood Rudy Giuliani, running for president, a lifelong Yankee fan who got championship rings in the late 1990s even though he didn’t do a thing other than serve as mayor at the same time.
When pressed about his rooting interest in the Fall Classic to come, Rudy said he was for the Sox, using the vague reasoning that American League fans had to stay together...

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Football fans in Camillus and Geddes, whether they wear West Genesee gold or Bishop Ludden green, walk around these days with a bounce in their step, a pride in their bearing and a song in their hearts – okay, maybe not the last part, but you get the point.
When the current state championship format came into being in 1993 (admittedly a few decades too late, and still no Long Island involved?), Section III partisans looked forward to a day where it could boast of more than one champion in a single season.
Then CBA and Weedsport pulled off that double in 2004 - but at least they were both established powers...

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