Sunday, March 02, 2008

Sunday Stories

Daniel LeDuc of The Washington Post writes about the new ballpark that is ready to open in D.C.... "With visions of cherry trees blooming beyond the outfield and the U.S. Capitol as a backdrop, the team is right on target to open the $611 million ballpark off South Capitol Street." ...
  • Daniel LeDuc


  • Jay Mariotti of The Chicago Sun-Times writes that Illinois basketball coach Bruce Weber needs to apologize to Indiana freshman Eric Gordon after the treatment he received at Illinois.... "I sat courtside in Assembly Hall that evening and was stunned when no one of an official capacity -- including a security cop sitting beside me -- seemed to care about escalating tensions in a decidedly hostile environment." ...
  • Jay Mariotti



  • Gordon Edes of The Boston Globe writes about a man named Felix Maldonado - a person who has been with the Red Sox for 45 years... "The mystery, as Felix Maldonado enters his 50th year in baseball, 45th with the Red Sox, may be that his name is not better known, except as a source of puzzlement for Sox fans who visit the team's training complex when they notice that one of the practice diamonds is named Felix Maldonado Field and wonder who that might be." ...
  • Gordon Edes


  • Bill Plaschke of The Los Angeles Times writes how Lakers owner Jerry Buss has the team on the right road... "Buss is back, bigger and more powerful than ever, the only owner in sports who seemingly can move mountains with an idea, the aging mathematician whose equations never get old." ...
  • Bill Plaschke


  • In Thrusday's USA Today, sports columnist Christine Brennan wrote a good column about the father of one of the players who died in the bus accident involving the Bluffton (Ohio) baseball team.... "Snow had fallen overnight in northwestern Ohio, so when John Betts made his regular stop at the cemetery on his way to work Wednesday morning, he grabbed the ice scraper before closing his car door. He walked to the spot he has visited twice a day for nearly a year, leaned over and poked through the snow for a moment before finding what he was looking for — a rubber home plate over the grave of his 20-year-old son, David." ...
  • Christine Brennan


  • The following links are stories which appeared in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about the great Myron Cope who died this past week...
  • Gene Collier


  • Ed Bouchette
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