Jeff Sharon

The NHL is still licking its wounds from the lost season of 2004–2005. While I’ve already expounded upon how the league can find its truest audience previously, as far as improving the game on the ice, there’s one thing the league can do right now to enhance…

This year’s MLB All-Star Game is scheduled for Tuesday, July 15th at Target Field in Minneapolis.

That sentence contains one of the several things that are wrong with the Mid-Summer Classic. TV ratings for the…

So the New York Rangers and the Los Angeles Kings will face one another in this year’s Stanley Cup Finals. Predictions are that NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman is salivating over the potential for some of the highest TV ratings for…

Baseball’s regular season schedule has been a source of trouble since expanding to 30 teams in 1998. With the Houston Astros moving over the American League, MLB has prudently accepted having at least one interleague series taking place…

It’s easy to get cynical about the business of sports in 2014. The tickets cost too much. The players make too much The owners offer the players too much. Not everyone hustles. There’s no competitive balance. The list goes on.

It’s the one big problem that never gets solved with baseball: The games are too damn long. Everyone wants MLB to speed up its games, but it never does, and in the meantime, the games are getting longer.