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Familiar foes all set to top charts again
Sports, Dave Wiggins, Published on 17/08/2025
» For all the things wrong about NCAA football nowadays -- Name and Image Licensing (which enables colleges to legally pay players), the transfer portal (creating player free agency) mega conferences, etc -- the governing body of American college ball finally got something right:
Dark horses' dreams dashed?
Sports, Dave Wiggins, Published on 09/01/2025
» The NFL postseason is a horse of a different colour compared to the MLB playoffs.
How MLB's playoff circus killed the thrill of the chase!
Sports, Dave Wiggins, Published on 10/09/2024
» The old-fashioned MLB "pennant race" is now but a glorious thing of the past.
Can money guarantee success?
Sports, Dave Wiggins, Published on 05/07/2023
» Is it really possible for a Major League Baseball team to BUY a championship winner by acquiring super-expensive free agents?
Shortstops won't come cheap
Sports, Dave Wiggins, Published on 03/12/2022
» If you're an MLB ballclub in need of a superlative shortstop, now is the time to buy one -- if you can afford it.
Buck and Baker are up to their old tricks
Sports, Dave Wiggins, Published on 30/09/2022
» Of current New York Mets manager Buck Showalter it's been said: "He's the best manager never to win a World Series."
College game now trapped in a wicked web
Sports, Dave Wiggins, Published on 31/08/2022
» US college football, at least at its highest level, has deteriorated into a money-making mess.
Will it be a QB-dominated league again?
Sports, Dave Wiggins, Published on 28/07/2022
» NFL training camps have opened, the off-season is officially over.
Shortstop is where interest, big money lies
Sports, Dave Wiggins, Published on 23/03/2022
» For the longest time in MLB, shortstops were of the diminutive, good field-little or no hit variety -- think Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto of New York Yankees fame.
Quartet of clubs take a leap in the dark
Sports, Dave Wiggins, Published on 11/08/2021
» If the MLB World Series chase were a poker game, the New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets and San Francisco Giants would have each raised the stakes and gone all at the end of last month, while the Chicago Cubs and Washington Nationals would have folded.