By JOHN P. WISE One Great Season
I started thinking about this last week, then found myself in a lukewarm debate on Bleacher Report about how prestigious the Notre Dame coaching job is.
One dude called it the most prestigious position in the entire world, and it didn't sound like he was exaggerating.
I think that's a bit of a stretch, but it's certainly one of the plum jobs in all of sports. If you're winning, that is. If you're not, as Charlie Weis found out Monday, it's a bushel of ...
Major League Baseball's offseason is famous for its high-priced free agent signings and blockbuster trades.
General managers are on the phone 24/7 trying to put together the perfect roster for the upcoming season.
However, the New York Yankees have one glaring issue that needs a solution.
Phil Hughes and Joba Chamberlain both burst onto the scene in 2007.
Hughes came in as the second youngest player in the American League in late April and showed promise in a start against the Rangers before getting injured, sidelining him until August. In 2008, Hughes pitched very ...
According to SI.com (obviously), New York Yankees SS Derek Jeter has won the coveted Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year award. Jeter becomes the first Yankee to ever win the award and the first baseball player to win the award since the Boston Red Sox won it at as a team in 2004.
I have no problem with Jeter receiving the honor, but he should receive it for the right reasons, not one of the reasons that Sports Illustrated Group Director Terry McDonell gave.
“This verifies my idea that he is on ...
For the first time in its 55-year history, the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year Award will go to a member of the New York Yankees.
The magazine announced Monday that Derek Jeter is the 2009 recipient of the award. This October, the Yankee captain led the Bronx Bombers to their fifth World Series title since his debut with the franchise in 1996. Jeter hit .334 this season with 18 home runs and 66 RBI. He also stole 30 bases on just 35 attempts. He had stolen just 26 ...
Few teams have dominated a World Series the way the Los Angeles Dodgers dominated in 1963.
The Dodgers won 99 games during the season, and faced the defending World Champion Yankees in the Series for the first time since they abandoned Brooklyn.
Outstanding Los Angeles Pitching Sandy Koufax had the first of his four outstanding years, going 25-5 with a minuscule 1.88 ERA, a 159 ERA+, and an 0.875 WHIP.
Don Drysdale won 19 games, lost 17, but had a 2.63 ERA to go along with his 114 ERA+ ...
While Derek Jeter may have missed out on winning the American League MVP Award to Joe Mauer, this is one award no one can take away from him. It was announced today that Jeter will be named Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year.
This is the first time that a Yankee has won the award in the 56 years of its existence, and the first time a baseball player has won since 2004, when the entire Boston Red Sox team was honored. Jeter had one of the ...
“Mom’s Ticked! She saw what you did.” Unfortunately that is a text message that I receive quite regularly from one of my kids. I’d love to say that I had no idea what this was referring to but this time I actually did.
Now that Thanksgiving is over it is time to retrieve the Christmas decorations from the boxes in the garage and transform our normally Sedona Red home into a winter wonderland. Over the years we seem to have accumulated just about every holiday decoration that has ...
While every one now is pondering why Roy Halladay is needed on the Yankees (he isn't), I want to focus on the first important deal that Brian Cashman will attempt to get done.
After Johnny Damon finally helped the New York Yankees back to the World Series, and winning their first title since 2001, he is a free agent again. And every time Damon has been a free agent, he has changed teams. He was the good corporate guy who said all the right things before, during and after the big parade down ...
With Thanksgiving over and the Christmas season in full swing, baseball's free agency period and winter off-season shopping and trading will likely now pick up full steam.
The biggest name on the trading market is Blue Jays ace pitcher Roy Halladay.
Halladay's agent recently named four teams Halladay prefers: the Red Sox, Phillies, Dodgers, and Yankees.
Brian Cashman has already made calls to Toronto to state his interest in Halladay, who is looking to leave the only place he has known as home in his major league career.
With the free agent market for ...
Creating a championship team has never been more difficult than it is now in professional sport.
Annual play-off contenders in all sports are working hard to continue the trend and make important post-season revenue to pursue or re-sign important team components.
Dave Hall will examine the most successful builders of champions in each of the major sporting leagues in a four part series.
Major League Baseball has seen three multiple winners over the last 15 years; The Yankees have five, and the Florida Marlins and the Boston Red Sox have two ...