sports commentary

When Michael Sam told his University of Missouri teammates he was gay before last season, it wasn’t a big deal. It’s a safe bet that NFL teams – who know…

In 1896, the first modern Olympics in Athens staged a marathon. The next year the Boston Athletic Association followed suit. Just 18 men ran that day,…

Since I review the year in sports each December, my editor thought, “Hey, why not preview the year in sports in January?!?”Why not? Because I have no idea…

The year in sports started out with the Detroit Lions missing the playoffs, and hockey fans missing the entire National Hockey League season.The NHL…

In November of 2011, Penn State’s former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was arrested on forty criminal counts, including the sexual assault of eight…

A lot of amateur athletes think they’re not that far from the people who play their sports for a living. Well, when Michigan Radio Sports commentator John…

In the Michigan hockey program’s 90-year history, some 600 players have scored more than 10,000 total goals. But the man who scored the team’s very first…

A 'seat license' is a fee fans pay just to reserve the right to buy the tickets.They call it a donation, even though every single one of us apparently…

The London Olympics features 26 summer sports, with 39 disciplines, and 302 separate competitions, in a desperate attempt to get everyone to watch. So…

A committee of 12 university presidents recently approved a plan to create a four-team playoff for Division I college football – the last major sport to…