The Chronicle’s Henry Schulman was in the press box before Game 3. As with all good accounts of such things, Schulman captures the tragic, the comic and the simply insane: Like the fans, many of us assumed power would be restored and the game would be played. Then came word from transistor radios (remember those?) […]

If anyone cares, I finished season three of “The Wire” last night. It just gets better and better, as you all said it would. Again, no spoilers for those of us who haven’t seen it all yet, but I will offer a question: why on Earth didn’t HBO do an Omar/Brother Mouzone spinoff? If people […]

I wrote up an NLCS Preview over at NBC. I’ll be honest and say that this thing could go either way, but if I have to pick, I’ll go with the Dodgers, mostly because of bullpens. The more I think about this matchup, the more excited I get. I think the Yankees will beat the […]

As I mentioned yesterday, I have to be in court this morning, so I won’t have anything here until this afternoon. I did write six posts for NBC, however, that will be going live as the morning progresses. Among the topics: Ron Darling’s tax trouble, the Dodgers’ playoff rotation, the desirability (or not) of a […]

The legally-minded among you may find this interesting. It’s a law review article about the best way to go after PEDs in sports. From the abstract: This Essay argues that performance-enhancing substance policy should be modeled after federal and state securities regulation. Instead of punishing use, regulators should require disclosure of all substances used, and […]

Sorry things have been quiet the past couple of days. I was home with kids yesterday, and today I’m busy preparing for an appellate argument scheduled for tomorrow morning. Breaks from those activities — and almost all of the time that stretched into the wee wee hours of last night — consisted of me frantically […]

Phillies 5, Rockies 4: Wow, what a game! Colorado scores three times in the bottom of the eighth, only to have Philly do the same in the top of the ninth. The most interesting thing about this, I think, is that home field advantage, such as it was, actually hurt the Rockies, with the snow-out […]

Angels 7, Red Sox 6: Over at NBC on Saturday I wrote a post about how the Sox will go with Lester on short rest in Game 4 if, indeed, there was a Game 4. I went on to talk about Beckett on short rest in a Game 5. Some commenter called me an idiot […]

How many beers does C.B. Bucknor owe Phil Cuzzi for taking the heat off him?

Not Moneyball, according to MTV Movies blogger Larry Carroll: “Yeah, I have another idea for a baseball movie that actually doesn’t have any baseball in it,” the “Informant!” filmmaker revealed to us recently and more than a bit cryptically. “I am going to see MLB when I’m in New York to talk to them about […]