We have our first upset of the 2024 national college football playoff tournament: SMU defeated Alabama. Not on the field, off course, but in the committee meeting room where the panel chose the 12 teams that now have a chance to pursue a national championship. Of...
BERNIE BITS 1. John Mozeliak on Ryan Helsley: speaking to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, the Cardinals’ president of baseball operations spoke about the possibility of trading Helsley, who set a franchise record with 49 saves last season. But first, here is...
Baseball’s traditional winter meeting gets underway Monday in Dallas. The annual carnival will be crowded and noisy. Your St. Louis Cardinals will do a lot of listening, a lot of talking, exchange many text messages and palaver their way to a trade or two. And if the...
Missouri closed the regular season with a 9-3 record, and can push that victory total to 10 by having a successful day of bowling. That’s a good season, yes … but it could have been a better one. I’ll elaborate on that point later on in the column. With a...
A sacred annual tradition in sportswriting – at least for columnists who don’t feel like working and want something easy – is to tap out a “Give Thanks” column that fits the holiday spirit and fills a column space. With that in mind, I’ll join in. But this is...
BLUE NOTES Hello! Welcome to the restart of the Blues 2024-2025 season. The gang has a new coach, Jim Montgomery. Their do-over season began Monday night in New York with a frisky 5-2 win over the Rangers in Montgomery’s first game as the new coach – a debut that was...
Only one thing surprises me about the decision made by St. Louis Blues GM Doug Armstrong to fire coach Drew Bannister to clear the way for the hiring Jim Montgomery: that this move surprised anyone at all. It was an obvious, smart, logical and easy shakeup by...
If Blues GM Doug Armstrong believes Jim Montgomery would be the best coach for the Blues as the NHL season moves into the holiday season, then he should do the deed, go ahead, and make the hockey club better. Take care of the beloved Blues. Would it be harsh to...
I don’t know why, but for a couple of days I’ve been thinking about the best quarterbacks in St. Louis professional football history. Maybe this little brainstorm was prompted by news of A.J. McCarron getting released by the Battlehawks after two seasons as their...
