March Madness is in full swing. Coaches are continuously changing schools for bigger paydays. Licensed merchandise sales reach record levels every year. It seems everyone is making money except for those doing most of the sweating. Should that change? Should we start paying college athletes for their services? This is a particularly sensitive issue in […]

In the week between the NBA All Star Game and the showdown between the Miami Heat and the Lakers in Los Angeles, the primary story line was Kobe vs. Wade, as in what retribution might Dwayne Wade expect for breaking Kobe Bryant’s nose with a hard foul during the All Star exhibition. As it turned […]

Tiger Woods woke up on the Monterrey, Calif. peninsula on Sunday, Feb. 12 knowing he was paired with rival Phil Mickelson in the penultimate group of the AT&T ProAm, four strokes off the lead behind a pair of relatively unheralded and inexperienced players. Throughout the latter half of the 1990s and most of the first […]

On Dec. 8 Chris Paul was traded by the New Orleans Hornets to the Lakers in a three way deal in which the Lakers would give up Lamar Odom and Pau Gasol. That trade was vetoed by NBA Commissioner David Stern because of competitive balance concerns and some lobbying by NBA owners who had just […]

Without sports fanatics there would not be big time college and professional sports. The NFL is a $12 billion dollar industry, Major League Baseball earns more than $7 billion each year and the NBA does about $4 billion. This does not even count what is spent on illegal gambling, fantasy leagues, and sports outside the […]

The game winning catch by Vernon Davis that ended with the 49ers tight end crying in Coach Jim Harbaugh’s arms last Saturday was the culmination of six years of maturation and leadership that has his San Francisco 49ers one game away from their first Super Bowl appearance since 1995. San Francisco began its final drive […]

Anyone watching, listening or talking about the NFL this season has been inundated with talk of Tim Tebow, to the point of Tebow-mania. Certainly his dramatic overtime heroics in Sunday’s playoff win over Pittsburgh has done nothing to calm the Tebow dominated airwaves. The question for many Regal readers is the degree that race is […]

Former major league manager Leo Durocher rode the phrase, “Nice guys finish last,” into three World Series Championships and a spot in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Houston Texans’ wide receiver Andre Johnson took a large step towards proving Durocher wrong last weekend when the most senior member of the Texans was rewarded for his […]

Magic Johnson is a candidate to become one of the Major League Baseball owners. The Los Angeles Dodgers will be auctioned off this winter as part of the Frank McCourt divorce settlement sweepstakes, and Johnson is fronting a group that includes prominent Southern California businessmen and Stan Kasten, the former president of the Atlanta Braves, […]

Ernie Davis was the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy. It was such big news at the time that President John F. Kennedy was compelled to send the following message: Seldom has an athlete been more deserving of such a tribute. Your high standards of performance on the field and off the field […]