Mike Menitove
MLB has to put steroid scandals behind ’em

The 2004 MLB season is full of tremendous expectations. A laundry list of superstars changed teams. Vlad Guerrero and Bartolo Colon to the Angels, Miguel […]

Shocked n’ awed about A-Rod

It’s a shock that I still haven’t recovered from, and I’m still not sure how I feel about it. (No, I’m not writing about Yale’s […]

M. bball crawls back into Ivy race

At about 8:30 last Saturday night, I was convinced that a conspiracy had ensnared Yale sports. Maybe Athletic Director Tom Beckett had sent a secret […]

Time for men’s bball to take a reality check

I’m not trying to be overly negative, but someone needs to inject a sense of reality into the men’s basketball team and its fans. The […]

A break from Eli bball, on to the nat’l scene

In about six weeks, the NCAA selection committee will announce the field of 65 teams that will compete in the NCAA Tournament. Don’t worry, I’m […]

If Bears best Elis again, say sayonara to Ivy title

I’m trying to stay optimistic about Ivy League title hopes, but it’s hard in the wake of the men’s basketball 85-75 loss to Brown last […]

If it were not for the BCS …

With USC and LSU proclaimed as college football’s co-national champions last week, everyone seems to have finally written off the Bowl Championship Series. But, although […]

MLB’s fiercest rivalry heats up

Only six weeks after they battled for the American League pennant, the Yankees and Red Sox are now battling to load their roster to make […]

M. hoops fans glimpse promise

The men’s basketball team’s 70-60 loss to No. 1 UConn on Monday was the best sporting event I’ve ever attended and featured the best crowd […]

Embarrassing sports defeats not unusual

Baseball is America’s national pastime, but we won’t be seeing a U.S. Olympic baseball team in the 2004 Athens Olympics. With a quarterfinal round qualifying […]

And the 2003 MLB awards go to …

All of this year’s Major League Baseball awards are pretty easy to figure out — and then there’s the American League MVP Award. The American […]