
By Robert Niles: Which city's sports fans have suffered the most?As a stats geek, I'm not happy with an answers that rely on goats and curses. Nor can I accept that fans of one team have suffered too terribly when the other pro teams in that same city have racked up one championship after another...

By Robert Niles: This is for readers in the Los Angeles area (or anyone who's spent some time in LA).Which of these old-school LA-area joints would you most like to go to for lunch? poll by twiigs.com

By Robert Niles: Tomorrow's BCS championship surely will bring with it calls from some newspaper columnists and TV and radio hosts for a college football playoff...

By Robert Niles: Here's the long version of an essay that I wrote for the American Youth Soccer Association, which appeared it is Whistle Stop national e-mail newsletter for youth soccer referees.It's got some good stuff in it for youth sports officials, I hope.-- Two weeks ago, I ran center ref...

By Robert Niles: Here's the long version of an essay that I wrote for the American Youth Soccer Association, which appeared it is Whistle Stop national e-mail newsletter for youth soccer referees.It's got some good stuff in it for youth sports officials, I hope.-- Two weeks ago, I ran center ref...

By Robert Niles: Here's the long version of an essay that I wrote for the American Youth Soccer Association, which appeared it is Whistle Stop national e-mail newsletter for youth soccer referees.It's got some good stuff in it for youth sports officials, I hope.-- Two weeks ago, I ran center ref...

By Robert Niles: I think many journalists and analysts are missing the core story underlying the populist revolt over the Bush administration's proposed Wall Street bailout.People aren't merely upset with the idea of their tax money going to prop up rich Wall Street businesses and investors...

By Robert Niles: Laurie and I have put our home and cell phone numbers on the U.S. federal Do-Not-Call list, but that hasn't stopped solicitors from calling...







