I'd rather be sitting in a ballpark.

Unfortunately, most people seem to measure success by one’s paycheck. If you’re a professional athlete or an entertainer, your salary is public knowledge. The biggest story of this offseason is the record deal that Shohei Ohtani signed with the Dodgers, and the money he is deferring so that they can sign everyone but Mayor McCheese. It’s easy…

Jerry Dipoto of the Mariners and A.J Prellar of the Padres are both seen as free-wheeling traders. The baseball media love them both and are longing for their type of action right now. Note that neither team has won a World Series despite all of the spending and trading.  While I don’t pretend to speak for all…

Remember in the days leading up to Ohtani to the Dodgers? A number of people and those supposedly in the know, mistook Shark Tank investor, Robert Herjavec for Shohei Ohtani. Hey, all those really rich guys look alike when they board planes. No longer a reality television drone, I hadn’t thought about Shark Tank in years. However,…

After learning Ohtani wasn’t coming to Chicago to play for either team, I wiped the hurt from my heart and started to look at what the rest of MLB is going to do before spring training. I hope none of my fellow Cub fans took this snubbing of Wrigleyville personally. Other than the money considerations…

For the most part, I couldn’t be happier that I don’t follow the Iowa Hawkeyes football team. Instead, I’m watching two basketball blue bloods play some of the worst ball I’ve ever seen. With a little more than 9 minutes left, I don’t care who wins. I just want the bleeding to stop. I don’t…

After a lot of stops and starts and really irresponsible reporting, Shohei Ohtani finally signed a 10-year, $700 million contract with the Dodgers. I hope he and his agent don’t opt out after 10 minutes or renegotiate the deal before I hit the big 6 0. Someone reported that there are going to be deferred…

I’m not sure if the world is made up of either big picture people or little picture viewers, but I know different fans choose one camp over the other. I’m also not exactly sure when small sample size became part of sports jargon. I figure the past decade of political polling had something to do…

Heading into Championship weekend, if you follow college football you’ve probably heard some of the pundits hoping for chaos. Ultimately what it means in sports is lots of upsets. As far as college football goes, it’s all about teams looking in on the college playoffs (still only four teams) and hoping the undefeated teams (somehow)…

If you follow professional sports at all, you’ll note the fine line between fact and fiction. It’s great to speculate about what teams and players are likely to do, but to posit it as truth is irresponsible at best. I’d argue that columnists, experts and beat writers that float baseless stories do more to ruin…

Remember when Jim Harbaugh and Michigan couldn’t beat Ohio State? Note the omission of the famous article. If you think the outcome of this match is a certainty then you haven’t followed the hype of the Big Ten. I can count on three hands the number of times Ohio State has been tapped for hoops…