Ed Storin

• Baseball's biggest spenders aren't finding much success so far this year
  You may not have noticed, but this is shaping up as a pivotal baseball season.

• BCS nightmare to end, but will controversy be done?
  Finally, major college football is going to have a playoff.

• Loose lips could sink skippers Guillen and Valentine
  This is a tale of two baseball managers who don't know when to keep their mouths shut.

• Throwing it around the horn for Opening Day
  Random thoughts as the baseball season gets under way...

• Miami Dolphins continue their decline
  When I left Miami 21 years ago, the Dolphins were king of the hill.

• Saints dished it out; Now they'll have to take it
  This week's sports scandal is unlike any of the recent disgraceful incidents we've been reading about for the past year or so.

• Boxing lost one off the good guys
  It is very hard to find any truly nice people in the unsavory world of boxing. As long as I can remember, the sport has been populated with thugs who lie and cheat and would run over their grandmother if it would put money in their pocket.

• Super Bowl always manages to entertain
  Despite watching 46 Super Bowls (either in person or on TV) I am constantly surprised and often enlightened by what occurs on the field and the resulting aftermath.

• Thoughts on the passing of college football legend Joe Paterno
  When I heard that Joe Paterno had died Sunday I wondered how his memory would be treated by members of the media.

• Observations from college football bowl season
  With 31 of the 35 bowl games in the books, it's a good time to take stock of the current status of college football.

• Never mind the appeal, Bonds; You're not getting in
  So, after eight years of being investigated for steroids use, Barry Bonds, the would-be home run king, was sentenced last Friday to 30 days of home confinement.

• BCS voters bought into Alabama's brand name
  Once again, the BCS system has failed. Kind of reminds me of Congress. Both the greedy bigwigs in charge of college football and the self-serving politicians don't get it.

• Undignified ending for Penn State's legendary leader
  How the mighty have fallen.

• Broncos' Tebow stuck under critics' microscope
  Love him or hate him, Tim Tebow is a wonderful sports story.

• Baseball needs bold thinking if it wants our attention
  Major League Baseball has some major problems, and the biggest problem of all is that commissioner Bud Selig refuses to recognize that there are problems.

• Confusing as it is, conference shuffling still isn't finished
  Let's see now...

• Soft Red Sox wearing thin as playoffs approach
  When I watched Boston and Philadelphia in a spring training game in March in Fort Myers, Fla., there was a perception that these were the teams we were going to see in the World Series.

• Rogue element could take down your alma mater next
  These are tough times to be a University of Miami alumnus or booster.

• Braves' Gonzalez off to good start, but will he be able to finish?
  Fredi Gonzalez has managed the Atlanta Braves for 98 games. That's miniscule compared to Bobby Cox's 3,000-plus games as skipper of the Braves. So it is way too early to draw any long-range comparisons. But it is fair to say that the Braves, under Gonzalez, are just as good, if not better, than Cox's 2010 team.

• Fans are paying to see Manny being absent
  Manny Ramirez played his last Major League Baseball game on April 7.

• Baseball could use more blasts from the past like McKeon
  If you are an "old school" baseball fan, you have to love this:

• Sounds like Fighting Irish fans have their guy
  If Notre Dame football coach Brian Kelly can fire up his players like he did his Monday luncheon audience, the Irish may be playing for a national championship soon.

• Two of baseball's greatest were at their best in 1941
  Recently, I have been reading and hearing discussions about what is the greatest all-time baseball record -- the one least likely to be broken.

• Bad times for Tressel, Ohio State
  This has been a bad week for Jim Tressel, and his chances of remaining coach at Ohio State are waning with each new development in the Tattoogate crisis.

• NCAA scene pretty sketchy these days
  This evening we will have a welcome respite from another bad week for the NCAA.