Recent content by Bob Cook

When my 11-year-old son and I visited Philly in March, our hotel was near the Art Museum. Like, well, everybody out on Sunday morning, we went by the statue, and then ran up the steps in triumph. There are two iconic figures for sale in every Philly gift shop: Ben Franklin and Rocky Balboa...

For Henry Hill, this scheme was small potatoes. Heck, the only way anyone found out about it was because when the federal prosecutor on the Lufthansa theft asked him how he met his girlfriend from Pittsburgh (the prosecutor noted in 30 for 30 that Goodfellas left out during the witness...

I've read stories about the possibility the Pacers will try and tank, but the problem is so many teams are employing (or could employ) that strategy that it won't work anymore, even though owners voted recently to continue to allow it to happen.

Sorry, at the time PFR posted it, Cutler didn't rank that high yet. So he is tops -- and it's still the worst among any jersey number.

I hope you're leaving because the Plain Dealer finally said you were good enough.

If the Pacers don't make the playoffs, then Doyel gets to spend even more time at the track. By which I mean, Indy 500 during the month of May. (I love how Hoosiers can be so reductive. A 300,000-seat racing monstrosity is "the track." An 8,000-seat high school basketball facility is "the gym.")

What I love about this whining about "this might cost my kid a scholarship at D-I" is that if your kid is that great, recruiters are already talking to him, and they won't care whether your season was canceled. If you're still 6-foot-3, 200 pounds and can run a 4.4 40, there will still be room...

Over time, laws governing the age of consent have raised that age, not lowered it.

Hold on... http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/us/justice-kennedy-blocks-same-sex-ruling-in-idaho.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

...Gregg Doyel. http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/2014/10/08/gregg-doyel-to-join-indystar-as-sports-columnist/16905811/

According to Pro Football Reference's measurements, Bubby was the best to ever wear No. 6. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/?p=3212 Also by Pro Football Reference's measurements, Bubby has the lowest rating of any best-player-by-uniform-number.

I wouldn't be shocked to see a football slate of candidates file for the next school board election. After all, I've seen a school board ousted because it changed the high school's nickname from "Injuns" to "Titans." That was in 2005. By 2006, a new board changed the name back to "Indians." You...

Really, the most shocking thing about this Sayreville story is that the school is putting the hammer down. Usually the school is just as complicit as anyone else in trying to sweep this under the rug.

I saw the contrast last year when my son's team went to play Batavia, a deep suburban high school that was a one-school, one-team town. The stands were packed, a lot of them kids with youth football jerseys that matched the high school colors. No doubt running the same schemes that the high...

Well, there are two big differences between his team and a place like Sayreville: 1. The freshmen and the upperclassmen barely interact. They're never on a bus together. They never practice together. I don't believe they even practice as long as the varsity, so they're out of the locker room by...