The media should spend less time celebrating JoePa, and more time finding out how an 85-year-old man could make such an egregious error, Inhistoric writes.

On this day in sports history, the greatest sports prank ever turns 25; Dave DeBusschere dabbles in baseball before basketball; Gabby Hartnett sets a now-irrelevant record; and a Major League umpire passes away at the plate.

Again this year the Sports Illustrated issue following the crowning of the NASCAR Champion has little more than a footnote on the cover about the Champ and the end of a long 36 race, coast to...

Thought so ...

As I have documented in the past (here and here) Sports Illustrated hasn't necessarily given Jimmie Johnson his due, let's hope they can finally give the man the cover he so rightly deserves.   G...

I guess some people other than race fans read my little old blog here, especially yesterday's post and links.Much to my surprise the powers that be over at Sports Illustrated have emailed me...

You know this blogging thing has been really interesting and I actually got into it totally by accident - that's a story for another time but my predecessor at SBN that ran Restrictor Plate This...