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Don’t tell me that the NFL has usurped baseball as the National Pastime. Nothing could be further from the truth. Baseball is as healthy as ever. Coming off one of the most exciting seasons in sports history, it is poised to build upon its dominance of the American sporting scene. Now, that dominance is even extending to the drab, dreary months of winter...
...country ever since. From the continuing drama of The People vs. Barry Bonds in the BALCO steroid scandal, to Pedro Martinez’s ugly departure from the Red Sox to New York, to the Randy Johnson blockbuster, baseball has provided enough controversial, argument-inducing material to make the NFL playoffs seem as compelling as a bocce tournament...
...first time, baseball is stealing headlines from football and basketball well into January. This past weekend, the biggest story wasn’t who would advance past the wild-card round of the NFL playoffs, but where Carlos Beltran, the prize of this year’s class of free agents, would finally land. This week the entire city of New York, the largest and arguably the most sports-crazed metropolis in the world, was abuzz not because the Jets had knocked off the San Diego Chargers in a wild overtime thriller to advance to the NFL?...
...season. Free agency and the absence of a salary cap create as close to a free market for players as exists in professional sports, leaving teams open to sign and trade players as they see fit—an exercise that is extremely curtailed in the NBA and NFL due to the presence of restrictive salary caps...
...hatred of the Yankees brings fans across the nation together every fall. Without New York’s 26 championships, their annual showdown with the Red Sox wouldn’t be such an electric, riveting affair. Would you rather see the confusing parity that now exists in the NFL, where every year is a crapshoot, and teams come out of nowhere one year (hello Carolina) before quickly fading the next (goodbye Tampa...