Owen Good's discussions

I’ll say a word of charity for The Sports Reporters: It was once a very good show, especially in the days when the only columnist you read was the one in the daily delivered to your middle-of-nowhere hometown. It no longer is that show, and the Internet has demonstrated that most of these big city guys weren’t any… Read more

Just call it Buffalo State, Albany State, Binghamton State ... what is the goddamn difference Read more

I’d call that a significant sample size, since Wisconsin has about 6 million residents, and a poll with 29,000 respondents would be very accurate. Read more

Internet petitions are worth the paper they are printed on. Read more

Always timely

This reminds me of the time in the 1950s when Cincinnati changed their nickname to the Redlegs and just to be extra sure nobody thought they were Communist sympathizers made their mascot a blue arm.

This is totally true. Also I am Sidney Ponson. Read more

This is so stupid. Read more

Ballplayer uses PEDs: Read more

People who vote for a hall of fame and people who care about the voting for a hall of fame deserve one another. Read more

There’s not much need to intellectualize this beyond “People who have their ass kissed really dislike it when their ass is not kissed.” Read more

The Dodgers interlocking LA comes from the LA Angels of the PCL, same as the Yankees’ NY comes from a police medal (and was used by the Knicks into the late 1980s). UNC’s interlocking NC was a state highway symbol here. I fail to see how the Chargers’ LA rips off the Dodgers in form or color.

You idiots, this is the General Lee they’re honoring, duh

As I remember it, the vote was something like 3:2 against the Olympics, so I can imagine that Vail and Winter Park and those places would be pretty pissed off, but they probably had no chance against the front range electorate Read more

My old man published a 5,000-circulation tri-weekly newspaper in rural North Carolina. One day in 1981 he decided to call Bristol and do a column on this guy who had the weird nickname schtick, got Berman at his desk. Of course, Dad also called Kenner to ask them when the hell they were gonna make a Yoda action… Read more

My favorite road sign is the exit services advisory on I-80 that says

DONNER PASS RECREATION AREA
FOOD Read more

Agreed, but with a baseball team playing 81 games there over six months, it’s an ongoing mass media reminder where other boondoggles are not. Read more

Rail through I-70 to the resorts would indeed be a benefit, and I know the parking lot of which you speak, and it is indeed a bitch. It sounds like the cost overruns/IOC demands that alarmed everyone (in the middle of a recession) were pretty severe though. In hindsight I’d chalk this one up as “not getting what you… Read more

I think the Montreal-Olympics-Were-a-Disaster narrative was partly sustained by the aesthetic/maintenance of Olympic Stadium, which always looked like shit on TV and, diehards notwithstanding, rarely had decent-looking crowds. It was a nonstop reminder in our press. Different story if that was in Ottawa and no MLB… Read more

I’m sure the sex traffickers did land office business Read more

My favorite fact about Denver/Colorado is they said fuck off to the 1976 Winter Games. They got the bid and everything and then just dumped it off at the goodwill when they realized what a shit sandwich they were in for. And this was in 1972. Read more