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Bernie: A Tribute To Hank Aaron, One Of The All-Time Greats. As A Player, And As A Man
Henry Aaron is gone, passing away in his sleep in the wee hours of Friday morning, peacefully...
Bernie: If The Cardinals Plan To Use 2021 To Regroup, They Should Play It Straight With The Fans
Based on the payroll accounting display at Cots Contracts, the Cardinals aren’t as cheap as many believe … including me. Do I think Bill Dewitt Jr. and John Mozeliak could crank up the aggressiveness and spend more money? Sure. Absolutely. But that seems highly...
Bernie’s Blues Review: Let’s Call A Penalty For Too Many Penalties
BLUES REVIEW What Went Down: After being Impaired by penalties, general sluggishness and then yuckiness in a lousy third period, the Blues were fortunate to scrape a point Wednesday night in a 2-1 shootout loss to visiting San Jose at Enterprise Center. The Blues are...
Bernie Bits: Tracking The NL Central, Cardinals Credibility, Cheers and Jeers, Plus Many Notes!
BERNIE BITS: It’s time to check in and update the NL Central as the member teams desperately spend money and make trades and disregard all discipline in the ravenous attempt to win it all… No, wait, that would be the NL East. Or just the rambunctious San Diego...
Bernie’s Blues Review: Just Like Old Times, The Note Rules The Ice at 5-on-5
BERNIE’S BLUES REVIEW Final Score: Blues 5, San Jose 4 on Monday Night at Enterprise Center. In their home-opening game for 2021, the Blues received two goals from defenseman Justin Faulk and a goal each from forwards Mike Hoffman, Brayden Schenn and Jordan Kyrou. ...
Bernie: In The NFL, Tom Brady Is Still The G.O.A.T. At Any Position.
Well, well, well. As it turns out, Tom Brady wasn’t manufactured in a secret lab by Bill Belichick. He wasn’t a system quarterback, plugged in by an evil coaching genius to play precisely as programmed. All of Brady’s victories and championships in New England can’t...
Bernie Bits: Will Yadier Molina Retire? Let’s Discuss The Yadi Predicament, Losing An NFL Franchise, And Browse Through Many Notes!
BERNIE BITS As you’ve likely heard by now, free-agent Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina would consider retiring instead of accepting an unsatisfactory contract offer. Yadi revealed his thinking in an interview with Cardinals broadcaster Polo Ascencio for La Vida...
Bernie: This Just In! Blues Refuse To Concede Division To The Avalanche; Colorado’s Stanley Cup Parade Put On Hold
Good day. There’s a lot of sickness and sadness and divisiveness out there, but I hope the Blues gave you a chance to relax and spend a few hours in a happier place. The Blues made the blues go away during Wednesday’s 4-1 victory in a delightful season-opener at...
Bernie: For The Blues To Go Far, Jordan Binnington Must Bounce Back And Show The Way
BLUES BITS I was going to write a typical “Keys to the Blues Season” column, and really load the thing up with a double-batch of stats and hot-take add-ons. But really there’s no reason to waste a substantial volume of words. We all know the consequential factors in...
Bernie: As A New NHL Season Begins, The Blues Are The No. 1 Sports Team In Town
As a new NHL season begins, let us first pause and declare: The St. Louis Blues have become the standard-setting franchise in our town. It isn’t that the Cardinals are terrible, or mediocre, or just merely average. Despite the disproportionate level of whining on...
Bernie: Nick Saban Is The Greatest Coach In College Football History. Case Closed.
Nick Saban didn’t need a victory to validate his place as the greatest head coach in college football history. But if anyone out there had doubts -- and I don’t know why they would -- Alabama’s 52-24 demolition of Ohio State in Monday’s championship reaffirmed...
Bernie: Tony La Russa Is Returning To The Dugout. This Will Be Fun. This Will Be Fascinating.
The Chicago White Sox are perhaps the most fascinating team in baseball, in large part because of the team’s stunning offseason hiring of Tony La Russa as manager. TLR is 76, and hasn’t managed since retiring after the Cardinals’ World Series triumph in 2011. La...
Bernie: The College Football Championship Should Be A Thriller. Alabama Wins, But Will Ohio State Cover?
My favorite scheduled evening on the U.S. sports calendar gets underway in a few hours. It’s the national college football championship, at 7 p.m. STL time on ESPN. It’s No. 1 Alabama vs. No. 2 Ohio State as two unbeatens rock on at Hard Rock Stadium near Miami. It’s...