Lazzari’s Sports Roundup – 7/29/09

*ATTENTION PARENTS:  One of the best things you can do for your child this summer is to pick up a copy of the book A Glove Of Their Own–winner of the 2009 Benjamin Franklin Children’s Book Award.  Written by Debbie Moldovan, Keri Conkling, and Lisa Funari-Willever (and illustrated by Lauren Lambiase), it’s a story of underprivileged kids’ raw love for [...]

What If There Was A Field of Dreams For Football?

I think I found it this past weekend in a small town in Rockland County, NY.
It’s called the “Collegiate Development Football League.” Based in the little town of Hilburn, the CDFL really is the “second chance” for 18-24 year olds who feel they can still play the game at a high level. The brainchild of [...]

Lazzari’s Sports Roundup – 7/21/09

Great cause: The Epilepsy Foundation of Connecticut is proud to announce its 23rd annual Mud Volleyball Tournament on Saturday, August 15, 2009 at Zoar’s Pond on Randolph Road in Middletown, Connecticut. The Foundation’s catchy motto for this event is that “it’s good, clean fun;” proceeds go toward improving the lives of people with epilepsy–along with [...]

Lazzari’s Sports Roundup – 7/21/09

Great cause: The Epilepsy Foundation of Connecticut is proud to announce its 23rd annual Mud Volleyball Tournament on Saturday, August 15, 2009 at Zoar’s Pond on Randolph Road in Middletown, Connecticut. The Foundation’s catchy motto for this event is that “it’s good, clean fun;” proceeds go toward improving the lives of people with epilepsy–along with [...]

Boxing Notebook

NEW YORK -   One of the ugliest incidents in pro boxing history will be recalled and documented on HBO Sports next Saturday August 1.  It was the night of June 16, 1983 at Madison Square Garden in New York City and Billy Collins Jr, after his fight with Luis Resto, was never the same.
Collins, undefeated [...]

The Erin Andrews Dilemma

I recently came upon a comment from an esteemed sportswriter for the Washington Post by the name of Christine Brennan. She’s won lots of awards for her writing and reporting and she’s enjoyed a long career as one of the top sports journalists in the country. She was commenting recently about the Erin Andrews issue [...]

Are Baseball Writers Capable of Legitimate HOF/Steroid Proposal?

At least give them credit for trying. The steroid issue has been so prevalent in Major League Baseball for a number of years now and  the questions surrounding Hall of Fame inductions gets deeper every time one of the accused and/or proven hits the five-year mark and get placed on the ballot.
Mark McGwire may have [...]

Boxing to Return to the Garden

New York -   Now boxing fans have been granted a tournament to crown a super middleweight champion that was unveiled Monday at Madison Square Garden in New York City that will be televised exclusively on SHOWTIME.  Six of the supposed best super middleweights with a combined record of 161-4-1, three champions, four undefeated fighters and [...]

Lazzari’s Sports Roundup – 7/11/09

ITEM: American Joey Chestnut wins his third consecutive Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating contest–consuming 68 wieners to defeat his archrival Takeru Kobayashi. With some nutritional information in hand, try to fathom this, my friends: That translates to approximately 21,000 calories (not counting the buns), 1,367 grams of fat, 2,380 mg of cholesterol, and 46,512 mg [...]

Lazzari’s Sports Roundup – 7/9/09

Out at the Travelers Championship last weekend, I was following the threesome of Joe Durant, Boo Weekley, and Jay Williamson for a few holes.  Coming off the 9th green, I witnessed a young girl politely inquire to Weekley, “Boo, may I have your autograph?”  Weekley simply stopped and smiled–then offered, “I’ll do better than that–how ’bout an [...]

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