Kenny Williams is a gambler. He bets big, and big bettors can cash big paydays. Williams banked one gigantic payday: the 2005 World Series.But one is never enough for a gambler. Winning is intoxicating – for the White Sox...
Blog: Justice is Served: August 2009 Archives
Serena Williams got a No. 2 seed at the U.S. Open, which begins Monday morning. While a No. 2 seed might sound fair, how can it be fair when Dinara Safina, the player seeded ahead of her, has won nothing...
You wonder whether Roger Federer, the world No. 1, has the stomach for the grind that will be the U.S. Open.His season has already been wildly successful. He’s conquered a demon: the slow red clay of Paris; he’s recaptured the...
Michael Jackson would have been 51 today, which doesn’t seem old when you know his life expectancy should have been 70-something. But for a generation of people, Michael Jackson, the cute kid who fronted The Jackson Five, will be forever young.To think now of...
Journalists preach about integrity and transparency, two noble principles that have long been the hallmark of the profession. Yet those principles can collude head-on with the issue of privacy.When it does, privacy should seldom lose.But privacy took a trouncing when...
I can't pull myself away from ESPN and its saturation coverage of the Little League World Series, now winding toward its endgame. I'm borderline obsessed with it.I thought I had gotten my fill of the Series last year when I...
The headline: “New Eagle Has Landed,” words that had nothing to do Thursday night with a moon landing. The words referred to a much-anticipated event, one that, while significant in its own way, could never measure up to a more historic...
I won't talk about what a fool is likely to do with his money. Not when I can simply talk about the fool himself. His name is Milton Bradley, a $10 million head-case who plays right field for the...
