Sports business

Legitimate concern or sour grapes?

Former Times writer calling out his former bosses: Fair or foul?

Gatorade: Drink of champions (but not Tiger)

Rabbi Eliyahu Fink of the Pacific Jewish Center in Venice, Calif.,  opines about the possible connection between Gatorade receiving kosher certification and dropping Tiger Woods from its advertising.

Who’s the boss?

Jews claim 13 of top “most influential” spots in sports business.

Another reason I don’t listen to sports talk radio

In this corner, Phil Mushnick; in this corner, Mike Francesa…

Detroit rabbi: Ernie Harwell a real mensch

Detroit rabbi pays tribute to a local broadcasting legend.

Rays of sunshine for Tampa Bay fans

Landsman in the front office spell success for Tampa Bay Rays.

Bad idea of the day

The Soapbox: Just say “no” to more baseball playoffs

Caeser’s wife

This one is a toughie.
Omar Minaya took time out in yesterday’s press conference announcing the firing of Tony Bernazard to point an accusing finger at NY Daily News sportswriter Adam Rubin. Aaccording to Minaya, Rubin had perhaps politicked (my phrase) for a player development job some time back and was therefore somewhat predisposed to be [...]

Another dumb thing some sports exec said

This time, it’s Bernie Eccelstone, the 78-year-old chief executive of Formula One Management:

In a lot of ways, terrible to say this I suppose, but apart from the fact that Hitler got taken away and persuaded to do things that I have no idea whether he wanted to do or not, he was in the way [...]

This just in: The Fehr is gone

Well, on his way out, at least, as head of the Major League Baseball Players Association, according to a report from the Associated Press.
“Fehr, who turns 61 next month, said Monday he will retire no later than the end of March.”
Fehr did a lot of good in his day, but he also built the union [...]