The 2024 Paris Olympics is behind us, but the television ratings were better than the 2021 (postponed from 2020 due to COVID) games in Tokyo. Women’s basketball, specifically Team USA’s games, average 7.8 million viewers, no noticeable change between the two sets televised games in 2021 and this summer.

Today, we are going to talk about myths that are widely regarded as truth. As Mark Twain said, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble, it’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”

I am a Cubs fan. You do not need me to tell you that—you already know.

Stealer’s Wheel released a surprise hit, Stuck in the Middle With You” in 1972. It was a surprise because Gerry Rafferty and his bandmates used the song to parody Bob Dylan in vocals and lyrics on a lark.

The volatility rollercoaster usually is accompanied by an emotional rollercoaster, and this is precisely the time it’s important to have a plan and to stick with it.

Fall sports teams started practicing Monday, and that means football scrimmages are a little over a week away. There are two major changes in the local high school football scene: Tippecanoe Valley changing conferences and Warsaw moving to a new class for the playoffs in November.

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I love the Olympics.

Free agency is winding up, and most of the action remains in the Association’s ivory towers.

I watch four golf tournaments each year—the four majors. I watch horse racing the same way—I tune in for the three races of the Triple Crown, even if no one is in position to win all three.

I follow teams more these days based on how they operate as a business rather than any regional loyalty I had similar to my days growing up in Northeast Ohio.

Simon and Garfunkel wrote a song and recorded their hit titled “The Sound of Silence” 60 years ago.

I comment about this July week in sports each year: Major League Baseball All-Star break, Home Run Derby, the All-Star game itself, the ESPY awards (ESPN’s sports-related award show with huge names on the red carpet, pre-show) … and nothing else really happening.

In times like these, when there is uncertainty in the economy, prospective clients want to know what the most important steps are to reaching financial independence.

It is July, and like so many months of July before, this one will end with pain for fans of the Chicago Cubs.

Does a baseball movie watched from start to finish count as watching baseball from beginning to end? Asking for a friend.

For most of you, you are reading this on July 3. It’s the eve of the 248th birthday of the United State of America.

Let’s talk about football redshirts.

I am not a man to brag, nor am I one to scream to the world “I told you so.”

This is the final episode of my three-part series on things in sports that are broken and desperately need fixing. I repeat what I said at the beginning—this is not an all-inclusive list. There are many more things that I didn’t have time and space to put in here.

Two Saturdays ago, something said to me in passing triggered a memory of some wisdom passed on to me during the football preseason of 2018 resulting in an “a-ha!” moment.

“What should I be doing to save for retirement?” The first step is to start contributing to your retirement plan, either through your employer or through you own private plan.

Welcome to summer 2024!

Syracuse’s Chautauqua organization has both fun with dogs and fun with patriotism planned with two free programs in June.

This is the second in a three-part series on things in sports that need to be changed, updated or significantly improved.