Sports

The Original Curse: Did the Chicago Cubs Inspire the Black Sox Scandal by throwing the 1918 World Series against Babe Ruth and the Boston Red Sox?

“I moved to Chicago for Major League Baseball, I might leave for the same reason.” – Jethro Burns I skimmed The Original Curse: Did the Cubs Inspire the Black Sox by throwing the 1918 World Series against Babe Ruth’s Red Sox? by Sean Deveney in the library and it’s fabulous, a well told sports story …

New Book Alleges “The Fix Is In”: All Sports Outcomes Decided in Advance to Maximize League Revenue Streams

From WSJ Online: “Sometimes the outcome of a game seems so improbable that it defies belief—or easy explanation. Take Super Bowl III (1969), in which the upstart New York Jets of the AFL beat the NFL’s seemingly unstoppable Baltimore Colts. To explain the Jets’ victory there was, among much else, the abysmal quarterbacking of the …