On May 2, 2012, former San Diego Chargers linebacker Junior Seau was found dead in his Oceanside home from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. Seau’s death was not the first high-profile suicide from a former National Football League player, but his passing has been the most discussed, prompting questions about the health and […]
Japanese phenom, Masahiro Tanaka, has seemed to make the transition to the MLB from Nippon Professional Baseball quite seamlessly. In his first fifteen starts, Tanaka has gone 11-3 on the mound with 127 strikeouts. This is very reassuring for the Yankees and many Major League scouts who know it can be hard to judge how well a player from a foreign league will do when they make the transition to the Majors. The talent level and style of play across the world are quite different compared to that played in the states. Many of the factors that could have made Tanaka’s transition rough have not been an issue, including the ball.
Last Friday, one of Major League Baseball’s most talented and marketable young stars was lost for the season when the Marlins’ Jose Fernandez went under the knife to repair a torn ulnar collateral ligament (UCL); aka Tommy John surgery. Fernandez just might be the best young pitcher in baseball (Clayton Kershaw fans would probably disagree) […]
In the sports world, no punctuation mark is as dreaded as the asterisk. Asterisks never appear in a stats column for anything good. Thanks to performance-enhancing drug (PED) usage by high-profile players like Mark McGwire, Alex Rodriguez and Jose Canseco, the last few decades have become Major League Baseball’s “asterisk era.” Baseball is not alone […]
In today’s world, player safety is one of the terms that is always in the news. The NFL put new concussion protocols in place this season, and the NBA did the same in 2011. But what exactly is a concussion? The Center for Disease Control defines it as follows: A concussion is a type of […]
