Running with the Pack For better or worse, "parity" has been a buzzword in the NFL for the last decade or so. It’s the result of league rules that reward poor performance with a creampuff schedule that enables perennial sad sacks to sign Arena League quarterbacks and win the Super Bowl. Baseball’s economic disparities and…
Taking advantage of the Yankees’ complete inability to put runs on the board, the Red Sox moved into first place in the AL East this week. While the 1999 wild-card team was often referred to–OK, mostly by me–as a two-man team of Nomar Garciaparra and Pedro Martinez, the 2000 version is showing considerably more depth…