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By Jim Coffman and Steve Rhodes
The anti-Belichick can’t win at this game. Plus: Cubs Progress To The Mean; White Sox Suddenly Not As Bad As You Think They Are; Sixers-Warriors; The NHL’s Deadly Denial; Wrigleyville Literally The Worst; and Dragging The Derby.
Posted on May 3, 2019
By Thomas Chambers
Just like I can’t separate an egg, it’s the same with sports.
When strikeouts outnumber hits and two-dollar hitters are appreciated, it’s not baseball. When a touchdown catch becomes a Zapruder exam, it’s not football. And it’s pop-a-shot, not basketball.
There’s corollary with Thoroughbred horse racing, even though 20 jockeys each straddling a nearly three-quarter ton critical mass of power and speed has really never changed and it demonstrates much more simplicity. The lords of racing are the real drag.
Posted on May 3, 2019
CTE Is Not Just A Football Problem
“Todd Ewen, a former professional hockey player, took his own life in September 2015 in the basement of his St. Louis home,” the Atlantic reports.
“Ewen had been suffering from depression and memory loss since his retirement from the NHL, in 1998. Before his death, he confided in his wife, Kelli, that he feared he may have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE – a neurodegenerative disease that most experts agree is linked to repetitive head trauma.”
Posted on May 1, 2019
