Fifty games have almost come and gone. The time is nearing for the grand return of Manny Ramirez. He's due to be back in a Dodgers uniform Friday night when the team plays at Petco Park in San Diego.
Vin Scully, to many of us, is sacred. For me, he is the reason I like baseball. His voice was a constant presence in our house when I was growing up.
Sportscaster Joe Buck's foray into a non-sports variety show debuts at 9 p.m. Monday on HBO.
Not that I feel overly inclined to come to the defense of the Orlando Magic or of Courtney Lee, you understand, but it and he are taking a bit of a bad rap after Game 2 of the NBA Finals.
Don't know about you, but I sure didn't see the Orlando Magic coming. But here indeed it comes, ready to storm into Staples Center on Thursday night for Game 1 of the NBA Finals against the Lakers.
John McEnroe thinks Roger Federer may be on to something. Federer has lost nine of the 11 times he has faced Rafael Nadal on clay, but beat him last month in the Madrid Masters. McEnroe says he saw something that might help Federer in the French Open.
Pro basketball is beginning to disgust me. Seriously. It's becoming difficult for me to watch. The NBA, and especially the playoffs, is not Where Amazing Happens, to quote the league's favorite slogan, it's where assault happens.
The Indianapolis 500 will be on ABC for the 45th consecutive year. Only CBS' relationship with the Masters (54 years) tops that. When ABC first start televising at Indy, it was a taped, black-and-white highlights package on ";Wide World of Sports.
It was a busy, breakthrough week for the NFL. The league extended contracts with two of its TV network partners and signed a contract (perhaps ";peace accord"; would be a better description) with Comcast Cable for it to carry NFL Network.
Kobe Bryant was asked after his Los Angeles Lakers had beaten Houston in Game 7 of the Western Conference semifinals what he had learned about his team. ";That we're bipolar,"; Bryant replied.
