Pro Sports

Insurance company set to take over as NASCAR Busch Series sponsor (12/14/07)
After 26 years of exciting fans with fast-paced action, the NASCAR Busch Series will undergo a major sponsorship change, starting in 2008. Nationwide Insurance is set to take over the sponsorship responsiblities, replacing Anheuser-Busch in accordance with NASCAR executive efforts to create a more family friendly atmosphere and impression on the sport...

Mayweather, Hatton face off in landmark boxing match Saturday (12/07/07)
Saturday night marks one of the biggest nights in recent boxing history. Undefeated "Pretty Boy" Floyd Mayweather Jr. honored by most in the boxing community as the best pound for pound boxer in the sport will put his 147 lb. WBC title on the line to take on Britain's undefeated, former 140-pound IBF, WBA champ, Ricky "The Hitman" Hatton, in a 147 lb. welterweight bout...

Some random thoughts about now and then (09/22/07)
A few random thoughts today: In early August, old friend John Mooney telephoned me from Springfield after tuning into the Little League World Series. Mooney noted that the 13-year old starting pitcher was 5-foot-3. "When I was 13," said the left-handed one-time fireballer, "I was 6-1. Yeah, and throwing from a 49-foot mound." That was less than fun to imagine if you were the one standing in the batter's box...

Sports Column: Hate of Yankees balanced by love of tradition (09/15/07)
Last week's column was the first part of a two-parter dealing with two of life's strongest emotions, hate and love, applied to baseball's New York Yankees. Part I outlined hate while this week's closer deals with love. Not love of the New York Yankees, mind you, but a love for what they had...

Sports Column: Several areas in dire need of addressing (09/13/07)
Sorry, I lied. I told Nevada Daily Mail managing editor Lynn Wade that I wasn't going to write my column about the Kansas City Chiefs this week. But after further consultation with myself, I couldn't curb my enthusiasm. There's a plethora of footnotes from the NFL Week 1 disaster, a 20-3 road loss to the Houston Texans, that still need to be addressed...

Edwards made right decision (08/30/07)
Kansas City Chiefs head coach Herm Edwards finally came to a conclusion last weekend that Damon Huard gives the team the best chance to win on any given Sunday. That's why he chose the 34-year-old veteran over inexperienced second-year pro Brodie Croyle to be the Chiefs' starting quarterback on Sunday, Sept, 9, when they travel to Houston to play the Houston Texans in the 2007 National Football League season opener...

Croyle has night he'd like to forget (08/24/07)
By Mack McClure Nevada Daily Mail KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- This was supposed to be the proving-ground game, a coming-out party, for Brodie Croyle, the Kansas City Chiefs' quarterback of the future, wasn't it? Thursday night's NFL preseason game with the New Orleans Saints was supposed to cement Croyle's status as the Chiefs starting quarterback, distancing himself from veteran Damon Huard and third-stringer Casey Printers...

Amidst negative headlines, Ewing made us smile again (08/23/07)
The recent unsettling stories involving the former face of the Atlanta Falcons and a fired NBA referee, who has already admitted to betting on games he officiated, have stole the national headlines. There's quarterback Michael Vick and his dog-fighting debacle, along with Tim Donaghy -- the Pete Rose of NBA officials -- who says he is not a lone wolf and that there is a widespread gambling problem with a number of the league's officials who also bet on games they worked...

Without question, baseball has a language all its own (08/18/07)
Many people today fail to realize that baseball has a language all its own. The interloping of other sports onto the American scene seems to have blurred a portion of the terminology. But things are always as they are, and I plan to pen here for the first time in 34 years of writing this column, an informative correction...

Show LJ the money (08/17/07)

Dolphins edge Chiefs on controversial call (08/17/07)

Quarterback battle between Croyle, Huard remains close (08/17/07)