Kevin B. Blackistone is a national columnist for FanHouse. He also is a panelist on ESPN's "Around The Horn". Blackistone currently serves as the Shirley Povich Chair in Sports Journalism at the Univ. of Maryland, and was a columnist for The Dallas Morning News.
One morning last spring, I sat in a National Press Club audience that was riveted to the testimony of a clean-shaven, light-skinned, middle-aged, college-educated, black man who told us how he was ... More »
Four years into the Second World War, Lt. Carlton Skinner, the commander of the U.S. weather ship Sea Cloud in the North Atlantic, sent a memo up the Navy's chain of command. He requested that it ... More »
Just before the 1946 World Series between the Red Sox and Cardinals started early that October, what would prove to be a historically more significant baseball tournament opened in Pittsburgh. It ... More »
The Wolf peers inside the car that, until he instructed accomplices in crime, Jules and Vincent, how best to clean up, looked like a mobile slaughterhouse. Blood, skull and brain had been splattered ... More »
Every now and then in one of our courts of law, a motion is made for a non obstante veredicto, or judgment notwithstanding the verdict. It asks a judge to reverse a jury's decision because the ... More »
In the NFL season before the much-ballyhooed arrival in Washington of two-time Super Bowl-winning coach Mike Shanahan, the team in Washington that Shanahan took over had lots of problems. The ... More »
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Nick Aliotti struggled late Saturday afternoon to remember the final record of the first Oregon Ducks' team for which he was a coach.
"Two and nine, two and eight," the ... More »
It is easy to understand why so many among us who comprise the United States feel like they have a birthright to at least direct, if not actually control, the rest of the world. As the sun started ... More »
"Nobody cares about fines. I don't care. It doesn't matter. I am going to keep playing the way I play, and if we keep getting a FedEx every week and win football games, I could care less about getting ... More »
Bruce Pearl is nice guy. I reached that conclusion a couple years ago when he introduced himself to me on press row at an NCAA Tournament site. His Tennessee guys were fresh off of a win, and he ... More »
When it ended dramatically for the Vikings last season, with Brett Favre coming up an ankle and prayer short of winging the Vikings past the Saints in overtime of the NFC title game, one of the ... More »
On the eve of this college football's kickoff game Sept. 6 between then No. 3 Boise State and Virginia Tech in suburban Washington, D.C., Boise State president Bob Kustra and most of the Idaho ... More »
In a sense, Michael Vick is like Kurt Warner, the greatest passer in Super Bowl history who early this year retired after a dozen mostly sparkling seasons quarterbacking in the NFL.
Vick is not ... More »
Cam Newton, the college player, is not the problem.
Cecil Newton, his dad, is not the problem.
Kenny Rogers, the rogue agent, is not the problem.
John Bond, the former player turned ... More »
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- There is a scene late in the movie Secretariat where the horse's eventual biographer, the great turf writer Bill Nack, who then was a Newsday reporter, is portrayed leaping up and ... More »
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – In the warped and perverted sense of what rises to high entertainment nowadays, from "Cops" to selling the NFL through knockout hits to weekend box-office hits like "Jackass ... More »
By the end of the first week of sit-ins 50 years ago in Greensboro, N.C., the scores of black college students daring to break segregation's stranglehold on freedom by demanding service at whites' ... More »
Dr. Ann McKee, the Boston University School of Medicine expert on football and brain injuries, said Monday on a radio program I participated in that medical science suspects of concussions on the ... More »
On the morning after he stunned the sports world by emasculating Sonny Liston to win the heavyweight championship of the world, Cassius Clay sat in Malcolm X's Miami Beach hotel room eating ice cream ... More »
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- As Brett Favre finally made it to the tunnel leaving Lambeau Field late Sunday night for probably the last time as a player -- limping all the way surrounded by a swarm of ... More »
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