Reading Time: 4 minutes The future of franchise-based leagues and pro tours may hang in the balance as big-money investors look to strip out superstars
Tag: MLB
Baseball being buried by a tsunami of cheat
Reading Time: 4 minutes As baseball struggles with the implications of a team cheating to win a World Series, there are more questions than answers
Sending a harsh message to sports’ cheaters
Reading Time: 3 minutes Baseball suspensions and fines should reverberate through all sports, down to children’s athletics. Cheating is a social ill that needs to be addressed
The future of pro sports? Just look at the NBA
Reading Time: 3 minutes But the NHL, the league that never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity, will sit back and let others get the gravy
How can you replay a World Series?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Deciding what to do about rampant rumours of Houston Astros cheating isn’t simple. But one of baseball’s best teams needs to be punished
Progress? Sport? The two shall never meet
Reading Time: 4 minutes From disputed strike zones to goal-line uncertainty to bloody high-sticks, major-league officiating can’t seem to embrace high-tech
Sportsnet can’t dig out of hole created by NHL contract
Reading Time: 5 minutes As the media giant sheds pricey on-air talent, the league has been unsympathetic. Where will the bleeding end?
When it comes to injuries, MLB teams remain clueless
Reading Time: 4 minutes Injury research through analytics should be priority one, since baseball owners spent $745,769,319 on injured list players in 2018 alone
Tanking takes the heart out of statistical analysis in sports
Reading Time: 4 minutes Only the purity of competition assures that the resulting data has relevance and application in a sport
Video replay: is the solution worse than the crime?
Reading Time: 3 minutes We can’t go back to spitballing the big calls. For the teams and the fans, too much depends on getting it right