The tale of two college basketball teams in this city remains to be told, but it will not have a Dickens ending for one for sure as the earthquake the rocks the game that some call conference realignment continues.  Catholic Seven lives on as Big East II. I had to harken back to my days...

That’s all I can standz cuz I can’t standz no more! Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would borrow a famous line from Popeye to begin a column! But it is true, both the iconic line and the sentiment and this has been a longtime coming. For me it is beyond sadness. It...

I went. I went again. I observed and like I did for three decades at the Boston Garden covering the Celtics, I analyzed. It is what I do. And I came away, this time from the Cintas Center impressed. I saw a freshman guard I had heard a little about named Semaj Christon, and took a very long...

It was the lede the day after the 2012 All-Star game and it bears repeating. National League renaissance baby! Tried and true NL fans have longed for the days when the senior circuit lorded over the game. For those old enough to remember the glory days of the NL, the stretch in which the...

Eight pitches into the Cincinnati Reds first 2012 postseason game many thought the freak and so untimely injury to pitching ace Johnny Cueto was a harbinger, an omen and a very bad one at that. It could have been something that could well have shaped the series that could have been, in the...