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I haven't read Ring magazine in around ten years, but I looked at the August issue on a magazine stand today. There wasn't a single feature article on the heavyweight division. An upcoming fights section speculated whether Samuel Peter has what it takes to win the title. Ring's ratings have the...

I remenber seeing George Blanda play QB for the Houston Oilers on TV during 1960-61. When the AFL was formed, it was felt that whoever signed Blanda would win the AFL title, since Blanda was the best experienced quarterback available to the new league. The Oilers won in the first two years and...

Sorry, I didn't check my spelling. I meant, "Most would-be voters don't regard sports figures as serious people. Is Woods an exception?"

Don, I don't remember that quote, but it is a sign of the times. I read a book by the late David Halberstam a few years ago, and Halberstam attributed great importance to black athletes with their multi-million dollar endorsement deals. Woods, especially, is reputed to have cosmic significance...

I started reading about boxing in 1960, age 10, by following the newspaper accounts of the Patterson-Johansson fights. At that time, NONE of the great champions of the past were called "overrated." There were writers still around who had covered Jack Dempsey. Jack Johnson's talent was highly...

After his junior year of 1992, Faulkner announced that he was giving up football because of a lingering wrist injury. He changed his mind and went on to play the 1993 season, and had another good year. Faulkner wasn't drafted by the NFL, as I recall. He made a lot of spectacular plays at Tennessee.

Craig Faulkner played WR at Tennessee from 1991-93. He could go deep and had good hands. I was sitting in the stands at Neyland Stadium during this period when Faulkner made a good catch and spun away from a DB for around 15 extra yards. Someome sitting near me said, "I haven't seen a white boy...

Don, the closer you study this hoax, the more sinister it is. It was no coincidence the 3 players with the wealthiest home zip codes were picked. The accuser had some legal advisers who were advising her before the critical lineup. William Anderson wrote this at the Liestoppers Board.

I have been reading the sports pages since 1960 and have never seen a column like this.

I remember looking at the late Joel Buschbaum's draft preview during Alstott's senior year. Buschbaum wrote that Alstott would "bring back the days of Larry Csonka and John Riggins. He meant that Alstott would be a featured runner who would gain a lot of yards.

The mania about statistics started in a big way in the 1970's. I recall LA Dodger star Steve Garvey talking about breaking Joe Dimaggio's 56 game hitting streak. Garvey would say during his many interviews during the mid-70's, "It would be good for baseball." Pete Rose made a run at...

The driver apparently stayed in the car. The LAX players knew he was there, according to Evans. The driver's role is a mystery.

It has always been rare for a team to trade it's starting QB unless he is washed up, has arm trouble, or like McNabb, is somewhat injury prone. The Eagles would probably want a lot for him. The Eagles and Redskins traded Sonny Jurgensen and Norm Snead for each other in 1964. At the time, it...

The strippers did have a driver with them. See the April 23, 2007 issue of Newsweek. Here is a quote: "One of Evans's teammates suggested taking back the money from the accuser. Evans told the teammate he was 'stupid,' and was worried that the man who dropped her off probably had a gun 'and...

I should have said that not many non-QB's have come from the CFL.

According to Bill Anderson, the accused LAX players were not picked at random. The false accuser had googled the entire Duke LAX team and found out their addresses before the April 4 lineup. Finnerty, Seligmann, and Evans all came from high-income zip codes. Anderson thinks the accuser had a...

I just reposted on a thread I started in the J.B. Cash section on June 3, 2005 concerning Richard Lapchick. It was an incident in the late 1970's were Lapchick inflicted wounds on himself and claimed "white racists" had attacked him. He was protesting a South African tennis team playing in...

This thread is relevant again as Lapchick is praising the NBA for it's "diversity," which is supposedly "showing the way."

There used to be a saying concerning drafting football players of, "Never downgrade a player because of a bowl game." This meant, if a player has had a strong career and has the attributes for sucess, you don't pass him up because of one bad game. This also meant that one good game should not...

Yesterday, David Howowitz reacted to criticism for running this article by banning Lawrence Auster from Frontpagemag. The thread below is from Auster's "View From The Right." http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/007752.html

During the 1970s, every white RB in the NFL had the term, "lacks speed" applied to him by the announcers. For example, "Cappelletti lacks speed, but catches well." John Riggins was an exception to this, sort of. I remember once seeing him catch a short pass and go around 45 yards for a TD...

You would see Johnny Miller doing commercials on TV all the time after that Open win. Miller was doing them for a while even after he stopped winning.

Speaking of Jackie Robinson, he was said to be better at football and basketball than baseball, but this can't be proven one way or another. Robinson was a tremendous overall athlete. He was a shortstop in the minors, but was placed at first base, an unfamiliar position in his rookie year...

As jaxvid says, Earl Wilson was black, and was a pretty fair hitter himself. Wilson was the type of fastball pitcher who always gave up a lot of home runs, but had some good performances along the way. Overall, he was considered a good, though not great pitcher.