Dawgs Sign Marino, Brown

The Dutchess Dawgs, facing perhaps the two toughest games on their schedule, have signed a pair of free agents, Hall of Famers Dan Marino and Jim Brown.
With Drew Brees on a bye this week, and Clinton Portis off next Sunday, the Somers Division leaders are looking to reinforce their lineup with two of the NFL’s [...]

7 Up: There’s Nothing Quite Like A Game Seven

We need a seven-game World Series. This year.
There’s nothing like a seventh game in the World Series. It’s a game in a season, and a season in a game. One game. Winner take all.
Throughout baseball history, there have been 35 seventh games since the first World Series in 1903.
The last seven-game series in 2002 saw [...]

50-50: Fifty States, Fifty SportsLifer Memories

I am a proud member of the 50-State Club. From Maine to Hawaii, from Alaska to Florida, from sea to shining sea, I’ve visited all 50 states in America at some point in my life. Been to em all.
Some states I’ve lived in, all I’ve visited, some once, others many times. Lived in New York, [...]

Baseball Dynasties Are Few And Far Between

When the Red Sox gallant comeback against the Tampa Bay Rays finally fizzled in Game Seven, another potential dynasty bit the dust.
The Sox loss demonstrated once more just how difficult it is to build and maintain  dynasty in baseball’s current three-series playoff format.
And it underlines the remarkable accomplishment of the Yankees, who won three World [...]

TBS: Total Baseball Screw-up

Fans tuning in TBS to watch Game Six of the ALCS between the Rays the Red Sox on Saturday night got quite a surprise.
The Steve Harvey Show. Instead of playoff baseball, America got Steve Harvey.
From here on, will be known as Total Baseball Screw-up.
The Boston Herald called it  a “Bunch of TBS!”
It was all caused [...]

1969: Magical Time, Magical Year

Standin on your mamas porch
You told me it would last forever
Oh the way you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life
Bryan Adams — “Back in the Summer of 69″
When I finally find the time to write my book, I’m going to frequent the [...]

Running Backs Once Ruled at Syracuse

Rob Brown plays Syracuse running back Ernie Davis in “The Express.”
Just like USC is known for producing tailbacks and Penn State linebackers, Syracuse University was once a football factory for running backs.
The new Universal Pictures football movie “The Express” tells the story of one of those backs, Ernie Davis, the first black man to win [...]

Dawgs Give GM 5-Year, $75M Deal

This season has been another Brees for the Dawgs
The Dutchess Dawgs served notice once again this weekend that they are a universal  force to be reckoned with in their unending quest for world domination…..at least in the Somers Division of the Nightcap Fantasy  League.
And as a result, president, GM and coach Big Dawg Bowser has [...]

Lords Of The Ringless: Running Back Edition

Barry Sanders and Eric Dickerson. The King and the Jet. Ernie Nevers and Jim Thorpe and even OJ. Gale Sayers
What a stable of running backs. And they all have one thing in common — they never won a championship.
Some, like Buffalo’s Thurman Thomas got close. Thomas was in four straight Super Bowls — and the [...]

Predicting the Future is No Guarantee

“Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.”
– Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929
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We’re all experts in this world. We think we know it all,
We see the crystal ball. We foresee the future.
In sports, as in life, we make predictions. We guarantee.
Oh sure, they’ll cover the spread. This one’s a lock. [...]