Month: July 2022

Track, beguiling and still behind the times

  Oh, track and field. It flits in and out of our consciousness every so often, teasing with performances not to be forgotten, giving us the best the human body can possibly generate – and then recedes to the shadows, so Steven A can unleash one more point about...

For some colleges, more cash (and they’ll need it)

  Sorting through the modest array of Pac-12 options following the UCLA/USC hejira to the Big Ten – expansion? contraction? extinction? – I’ve been thinking again about the ways money has driven college sports to a state of utter chaos.   A couple of old quotes are especially striking,...

Day-after notions: Flight on, Trojans

Thursday was the most head-banging, jaw-dropping sports day I can remember. Even if we’re lumping in administrative moves – as opposed to a competition like the 1980 U.S. hockey win over Russia, or Buster Douglas’ 42-to-1 conquest of Mike Tyson in 1990 – it figuratively shook the earth.  ...