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On Direct TV, it is carried on channel 213.

Has anyone besides me seen the new MLB Network? It started on New Year's Day. Every night at 8pm ET, they have something on baseball history. Every few minutes, they run a commercial for something called RBI. This is "Revive Baseball in Inner Cities."

Very few pro football players ever walk away and most have to be shown the gate. Favre is going to have to accept that at some point he will be cut loose and no one will pick him up. He might catch on with a team in 2009, but his playing days will end one way or another. Even though he played...

Today, Vanderbilt scraped by Boston College 16-14 in the Music City Bowl. Their only previous bowl win was in 1955 over Auburn in the Gator Bowl.

I remember when Lou Saban quit the Buffalo Bills in 1976 with a 2-3 record. Jim Ringo was named interim coach and the Bills lost the rest of their games to finish 2-12 (14 game season). The Buffalo players, led by O.J. Simpson asked the owner to bring Ringo back even though he lost evrey...

Even though O.J. Simpson is staying in the HOF, he is being phased out as a symbol. He was not one of the NFL Network's Top Ten Elusive runners. O.J. didn't even get a mention as an also-ran. Soon, he will not be in NFL-approved books. In true Marxian fashion, O.J. Simpson is becoming a...

Wasn't Wynn drafted ahead of Tom Brady?

For a long time, they would compare any white WR who had any speed to Lance Alworth. When Kirk Gibson was playing football in 1978 at Michigan State, the NFL scouts called him a bigger, faster Lance Alworth. As I previously wrote, Cris Collinsworth complained when being compared to Alworth in...

Before the late 60's, people dressed up to go to a football game . Now, they dress down. I first went to an SEC football game in 1964. Many people dressed as they would to go to church. Around 1970, this stopped and you began to see fans decked out in the team colors. This is when wearing team...

I turned on ESPN Sportscenter this morning and saw nothing about this incident. Nothing on the NFL Network, either.

Several years ago, even Vanity Fair magazine had an article heralding the coming black ascendency at pro QB. The drafting of quarterbacks was supposed to indicate this. The NFL Network program on the Top 10 draft mistakes reported that Spurgeon Wynn and Tee Martin were taken ahead of Tom...

The Global Warming crowd has it both ways. When the weather is hot, they say it "proves Global Warming." When it is colder than normal in the winter, they call it "climate change due to gloabal warming." Whether it is very cold, or very hot, they still claim Global Warming is the cause.

Both in a book and when a TV analyst, former 49er QB John Brodie insisted that a sucessful quarterback is "a gambling kind of man." He meant that the best quarterbacks throw the ball downfield, gambling on a big play. George Blanda once said that he had a lot of interceptions because he...

I have followed Peyton Manning since his Tennessee days. He will play longer than two more seasons. He really wants to set all the passing records and win more Super Bowls. More than any highly touted QB in my memory, Manning lived up to his billing in both college and pro football.

The Founding Father of the family was oil tycoon, H.L. Hunt, supposedly worth 700 million in 1957. His son, Lamar, founded the AFL. H.L. was a bogeyman to American liberals and was "behind" everything bad that happened according to a college profesor of mine. Upon Lamar Hunt's death in 2006...

What would be said of Peyton Manning if he is able to carry the Colts to a Super Bowl win this year? It would make him the obvious No 1 pro athlete of his generation, and the System would have to acknowledge this fact.

As I wrote in the Sammy Baugh thread, I was in a Borders store today. I purchased "The Glory Game," by Frank Gifford. It is another book on the 1958 Title game. I've just read a few pages, but it looks like a good read. There is another NY Giant book out by Jack Cavanaugh that I haven't seen...

There never has been much written about pro football, pre-WWII. I don't bellieve there has ever been a full-length biography of Sammy Baugh. I was in a Borders store today and found a new bio of Benny Friedman titled, "Passing Game: Benny Friedman and the Transformation of Football by Murray...

Stauffenberg lost an eye during a strafing attack by British planes in Tunisia, and wore an eye patch afterward. The scene were this happens is shown in the trailers.

Tom Cruise is playing Count Von Stauffenberg, who planted the bomb in the July 20, 1944 plot against Hitler. This is a true story that has been filmed a few times, but this is the first as a big Hollywood production. It will help to be a student of WWII history, but some people who have seen it...

In the 1960's there were a lot of "variety shows" on TV. You would see a lot of stand-up comedians on these shows. Most of them were Jews. As the decade went on, you would see a number of Negro Comics.

The Pro Football HOF has announced that O.J. Simpson stays in.

Yes, they are playing Boston College in the Music City Bowl.

I have always thought it funny that John Madden is considered a Football Oracle. When coaching the Raiders (1969-78), Madden was considered a lightweight. It was Al Davis who made the decisions on trades, drafts, and cuts, not the "head coach." During the 1970's, Davis was fairly competent...

The Giants had won a playoff game on a frozen field against the Browns in addition to the regular season. The New York Yankees baseball had played their season and World Series. The field was frozen in spots as well as being more beat up than usual. One of the things I don't like about NFL...