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The MLB Network's Top 9 World Series: 1. 1975 Cincinnati-Boston 2. 1991 Minnesota-Atlanta 3. 2001 Arizona-NY Yankees 4. 1924 Washington-NY Giants 5. 1997 Florida-Cleveland 6. 1986 NY Mets-Boston 7. 1960 Pittsburgh-NY Yankees 8. 1912 Boston Red Sox-NY Giants 9. 1955 Brooklyn-NY Yankees

The MLB Network has a list of the Top 9 Could Have Beens: Players who would have been all time greats but didn't have the chance. One of them did make the HOF. 1. Satchel Paige 2. Bo Jackson 3. J.R. Richard ("The Bob Gibson of his era") 4. Tony Conigliaro 5. Herb Score 6. Lyman Bostock...

Don, do you remember how the MSM reacted when it became news that Magic Johnson had Aids? Newsweek magazine had a cover story with the title,as I remember, "America Finds A Hero."

A while back I read that Richard Ben Cramer was working on a bio of Alex Rodriguez. Cramer is the author of the 2000 book, "Joe DiMaggio," subtitled "The Hero's Life." Some said that it made Joe D into a drip, a cheapskate, and a boor. What will be Cramer's take on A-Rod?

"He happens to be a great kid. He really is a good kid." I can't count the number of times I have seen quotes like these over the last 40 years.

Thanks for the compliments. They are very much appreciated. The charge "all the games are fixed" is as big an insult to white football players as can be imagined, something I thought this site was supposed to oppose. It would mean that men like John Unitas, Gino Marchetti, Jim Taylor, Merlin...

You might be interested to know that a fellow named John Unitas was playing QB for the Colts on that drive. Unitas called every play and was going for the end zone. Incidentally, Unitas wasn't paying attention to Weeb Ewbank, much less the owner. On the next to last play, he threw to the tight...

I agree with everything Don says in the above post. An example of the Alpha Male owner was Carroll Rosenbloom who owned the Colts when they lost Super Bowl III and the Rams from 1972 until his death in 1979. Rosenbloom felt himself personally humiliated when his Colts lost that Super Bowl. NO...

No, I don't think a Jewish cabal runs the world behind the scenes. I recall making a post criticizing that viewpoint, but I haven't made many. I will now say that making wild claims will turn off serious people who come to this site out of curiosity and drive them away.

Yawn. None of my points about fixing were answered. Here is another one. Did the NFL fix Super Bowl XXXIX so that Tom Brady's Patriots could defeat Donovan McNabb's Eagles? By the way, the coaches and teams can barely control most of the players. How do they get them to accept being told when...

Did they fix the game in which Peyton Hillis gained over a 100 yards? What if Warner had thrown up a Hail Mary before the fumble on the last possession and it bounced to one of his men for a freak TD? How could the fixers have prevented that? If you "don't know" something, or "don't understand"...

How does the alleged fixing work so well? Why doesn't someone become unhapppy with his cut and turn the others in? Why do the players on the losing team accept it without complaint? How much money do you pay the losing team over what they would make as Super Bowl winners? Why is this the first...

In today's culture, anybody is "great" if they accomplish anything at all. In all due respect, Ingemar Johansson was a good fighter, but not great. Eddie Machen had been the number one contender for over a year, but couldn't secure a fight with Floyd Patterson. Floyd's manager Cus D'Amato...

If Arizona wins the Super Bowl, Kurt Warner will be the first QB to take different teams to a Super Bowl victory. Craig Morton was the QB for two Super bowl teams (Dallas in 1970 and Denver 1977. Both times he lost. Earl Morrall started Super Bowl III for the Colts (Unitas was injured that year)...

How many of today's NFL players are, for example, attending law school? Are there any attending medical, dental, or some other graduate school? Are there any who have graduated from law school? I just posted an item on the Mike Tomlin thread about the legend that Vince Lombardi was a law school...

Part of Vince Lombatdi's legend was that he had graduated Fordham Law School but had gone into teaching and coaching for the love of it. Many people believed this during his Packer days. In fact, after getting an undergraduate degree from Fordham, Lombardi attended Fordham Law School for a year...

I remember Ingemar Johansson's time as heavyweight challenger and champion very well. I was nearly 9 years old when he stopped Floyd Patterson to win the title. At a local little league baseball game, the crowd erupted into thunderous cheers when the PA announcer gave the result. Having...

Today, I caught a little of Rush Limbaugh, who was giving a Super Bowl preview on his radio show. Rush picked the Steelers 34-10. "What chance do the Arizona Cardinals have against a legendary National football League franchise?," he said.

Willie Horton, who is black, was the Tiger left fielder and had his best HR year in 1968 with 36.

I just watched the program. There are several minutes on the King assasination and the riots. The narrator says that "in The Year of The Pitcher," the greatest of them all, Bob Gibson led the way." There is a lot of footage of the top players of the period. The Detroit Tigers are credited with...

Could you guess who "Boxing's Brainiest Champ" was? It was Gene Tunney. A little over two years ago, a bio of Tunney came out, "Tunney: Boxing's Brainiest Champ," by Jack Cavanaugh. This is about the only biography of Tunney ever written, aside from two by Tunney. They are not very revealing but...

The LAPD has been hiring gangbanger types for years. The Rampart scandal was a result.

A favorite theme of blacks is that the White Establishment is scheming to hold them down. An example is the near unanimous belief that, O.J. Simpson, the most popular athlete (among white people) of his era was being framed for murder. This feeling apparently still exists.

I made the mistake of "Eric" instead of Derek when I typed the list.

The Top 9 Shortstops of all time according to the MLB Network: 1. Honus Wagner 2. Alex Rodriguez 3. Cal Ripken 4. Ernie Banks 5. Ozzie Smith 6. Arky Vaughan 7. Eric Jeter 8. Barry Larkin 9. Luke Appling