by joe | Sep 26, 2012 | Sports
NFL follows corporate America’s game plan in referees dispute Everybody’s talking about the Packers and Seahawks, but the issues in the labor dispute behind the debacle have gotten less attention. You ignore them at your peril, because a lot of companies...
by joe | Jun 27, 2011 | Sports
This piece by Michael Sokolove (in yesterday’s New York Times’ Magazine) is the best article I’ve ever read on the physics of baseball. Here’s a sample: At 90 miles per hour, average major-league speed, a baseball leaves the pitcher’s hand and...
by joe | Jun 26, 2011 | Sports
Is there anything more reliable than the gleeful venom of the Saturday Letters in the Sports page? Here’s a beauty, one of many, from today’s L.A. Times: My suggestion to whomever buys the Dodgers and doesn’t get the stadium parking lot, concessions,...