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Every so often as fans we are treated to a new stadium that promises to changes the way we look at the sporting world. Last night the Cowboys ushered in their state of the art, ultra flashy new digs. But will Cowboys Stadium be the stadium in which all new NFL stadiums built from here on in will be compared against? Did we usher in a new era of stadiums? Some times the stadiums hit it out of the park and start a revolution. There seemly have been an equal number of times that a promising stadium ends up being ...

In tennis, Andrea Leand is as revered in the commentary box as a Vijay Amritraj. Pam Shriver's call on the action is given as much attention as John McEnroe's. It is not the case with cricket, though, as you generally find the women commentators sidelined.  Claire Taylor and Mithali Raj understand the art of batting and have mastered it like the greats playing the men's game. Many women players and commentators scrutinize and analyze the game as well as anyone. So why aren't their bright minds given the opportunity to call the action? In this article I try to put forward a case ...

It's time to start looking at profiles of strengths and weaknesses. It is time to get ready for next week. Wake up, clear your head and start preparing, early. Parallel to what you must do to prepare, some of us in the Raider Nation are already getting ready for victory, again, and again, and again. Our way of demonstrating that we are in a state of expectation is the building of our Raider Tailgate Cyber-Party. YOU MUST ADD TO THE MENU. WE LIKE DIVERSITY AND VARIETY. Here is our menu, in part, for Sept. 27.  Again, we invite you to add to it. Write your ...

"But I wouldn't change my life for nothing in the world. There's nothing like being young, black and rich. But there are certain things you think about. If Floyd Mayweather was white, I'd be the biggest athlete in America. The biggest, the biggest. I know that for a fact." The quote above is from an interview with reporters by Floyd Mayweather Jr. on Tuesday before his fight with Juan Manuel Marquez. Mayweather made other comments as well; you can read some of them here. The remarks by Mayweather are part of an ever growing trend in the world of sports that grinds ...

For the past two days I was involved in a debate about the fine handed to Roger Federer for his antics at the U.S. Open. My stance was, and still is: he used foul language, so what? Did he pull a Ron Artest? A Michael Vick? Dante Stallworth? Anything remotely similar? Did he hurt anyone? No. He simply had a mouth with which a man should not kiss his mother. Is he the only person to display his or her "potty mouth" while the cameras were rolling? No. The author of the Federer article, along with another reader, decided that I was naive because I ...

The Bridgeport Bluefish have missed the playoffs for the third straight season, closed out the year losing 11 of their last 14 and have seen their attendance marks dwindle to the point that they sit in the basement of the Atlantic League attendance ranks. How can anyone see a silver-lining in a season like this? “We really didn’t have enough players. I think they got tired,” Upshaw said. “They played hard for a long time and I think they got a little tired. Our offense went south and so did our pitching and we just couldn’t do anything to recover.” Willie Upshaw, former ...

For those who think the UFL is going to be some super new league that can compete with the NFL, I think you got some bad news coming.   This is not a league built to challenge the NFL in the way the USFL did, or is it a league that will try to boast about being better then the NFL the way the XFL did.   It seems the lessons of those two leagues has been learned, and this league is going to be something we have not seen before.   Based on conversations I have had with the folks running the UFL, and the ...

Don't give up. Don't give out. Hang in there. I know. You thought I forgot about the Raider Tailgate Cyber-Party we started last week. I said we would do it before each and every game. This week, you should try Bret's great menu. See the comment section for the recipe. I invented the Raider Smoked Nachos. It tastes good to me and my family. Basically, I used a standard nachos recipe using the following. As usual, you are invited to add to our menu so that our repertoire grows and grows. Cooked ground beef in pan on outdoor pit. cut green, red, and yellow peppers seasoned ...

We've done it! After over 15 years of waiting, the human race has finally outdone itself in the category of Idiotic Sports Crime. We all remember when — in January, 1994 — figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was ruthlessly beaten during the United States Figure Skating Championship in Detroit. It was idiotic, not just because of the inhumanity, but also because it was the most poorly planned assault in American history. The time and place of the attack, the identity of the assailant, the proximity to the Olympics. There was nothing less than a 100 percent chance that the attackers would be caught and held ...

There are things in sports that do not belong. For each person these things are different.  We all see the world from different angles and points of view. While no one has the definitive answer to which view is right, everyone has a right to their opinion. I believe there are certain things that do not belong in the world of sports. In a “Peter Griffin” moment, I am going to tell you what "grinds my gears.” The first thing I want to have out of the world of sports is politics. No, I am not talking about the politics of should coaches make ...