Analytics destroying baseball’s entertainment value
SPORTS: There’s a lot of standing around on the field as players and fans watch a bunch of strikeouts and walks while waiting for a long ball
Tag: MLB
Expose tainted heroes by finding new ones to honour
GERRY CHIDIAC: Roberto Alomar was a great baseball player but there’s more to being a human than athleticism. The real hero is the woman who reported him (PREMIUM)
Baseball showed how racism can be overcome
GERRY CHIDIAC: Racism is pointless and will inevitably fail, as it did in baseball. But it is part of our history ($29)
Major League Baseball has a sexual harassment problem
KEN REED: What constitutes manhood in sports culture is archaic. As if the sports world has been frozen in time – Neanderthal time
Play ball! The COVID-19 sports conundrum
BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: You can see the appeal for Trump to use sports to help restore normalcy as he heads for the November presidential election (PREMIUM content/Not yet a PREMIUM member? $25)
What we can learn from the baseball cheating scandal
KEN REED: Sport, at its best, is a co-operative activity in which competitors on both sides play with honour in a mutual quest for excellence
Can Bronfman bring baseball back to Montreal?
BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: Sharing the Rays with Tampa Bay may be more than a pipe dream for the city, which for more than a decade has sought to bring MLB back
Corporate raiders are at the gates of pro sports
BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: The future of franchise-based leagues and pro tours may hang in the balance as big-money investors look to strip out superstars
Baseball being buried by a tsunami of cheat
BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: As baseball struggles with the implications of a team cheating to win a World Series, there are more questions than answers (PREMIUM content/Not yet a PREMIUM member? $25)
Sending a harsh message to sports’ cheaters
KEN REED: Baseball suspensions and fines should reverberate through all sports, down to children’s athletics. Cheating is a social ill that needs to be addressed (BASIC/PREMIUM content/Not yet a BASIC/PREMIUM member? $19)
The future of pro sports? Just look at the NBA
BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: But the NHL, the league that never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity, will sit back and let others get the gravy (PREMIUM content/Not yet a PREMIUM member? $21)
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