Archive for November, 2009

After years of poor drafting and signing mediocre players with bloated contracts, the New York Knicks, one of the NBA’s marquee names, have fallen into a deep abyss of losing and playoff-less seasons. So along with adding new team president Donnie Walsh and head coach Mike D’Antoni prior to the 2008-09, the Knicks have adopted a front office strategy of “waiting out” player contracts to clear much the team’s salary cap room in order to rid the weaker players and, beginning next season, sign elite-level talent worth the long term, multi-million dollar, contracts they’ll command (an unusually high number of [...]

“I’m not here to talk about the past. I’m here to be positive about this subject.” Those tearful remarks uttered by Mark McGwire in front of a congressional hearing in March 2005 not only destroyed his reputation as one of baseball’s all-time great sluggers but coined a phrase that now stands as a symbol of Major League Baseball’s steroid and performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) scandal that’s taken down many of its game’s great names. With MLB, its commissioner and its players’ association essentially standing idle and doing nothing; dozens of baseball’s best known and top players were brought down, one [...]