Nick Canepa

1 week ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Nick Canepa

Sez Me …Sports should take a figurative enema and get rid of one word: Comparison. We compare the players. We compare the eras. For the most part, we have no idea what we’re talking about. “Oh, that guy couldn’t play today.”I say, “Yes, he could.” I say, “Well, could this current pitcher who can’t throw more than 50 pitches a game with an ERA of 6.50 get out Williams or DiMaggio?” Forget Williams. By the year 2100, people are going to be asking who was the last baseball player to hit .300.

2 weeks ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Nick Canepa

Sez Me …My warning went out as the madness began. There weren’t going to be many Cinderellas at this ball for aristocrats. So now the NCAA Tournament has reached its Final Four and Two, and not only has a Cinderella been out of sight this spring, the glass slipper has been crushed under the coach’s wheels and the good prince has turned to online dating.

3 weeks ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Nick Canepa

Sez Me …Do me a favor. Watch a basketball game and edit it by hand, with a blue pencil, instead of AI. There’s a week left in the NCAA Tournament, which means I’ve watched as much basketball this year than I did at this time last year. Which means the college game. It is far from perfect, but still full of meaning and great passion, especially in March and April.

1 month ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Nick Canepa

Sez Me … The NFL Team That Used To Be Here _ you know, the Judases/L.A. Lodgers _ has done nothing this NFL offseason. Nothing except help itself. The Judases’ talent pool has been quiet since the start of free agency. No splash. And they had like $90 million in cap space. But, did they have to cannonball into that pool? No, they did not. It’s not over, and they’ve been smart. And not cheap-smart. And still not finished.

1 month ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Nick Canepa

Sez Me …March Madness is the most maddening and exhilarating among American sports seasons. We have nothing else to match it in thrill ride unpredictability. There is no vacancy in the Heartbreak Hotel. For around four weeks and beginning Sunday with the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee’s seeding reveal,  professional and amateur bettors and lookie-loos will fill out their brackets with all the confidence available, only see them brackets destroyed by next Sunday evening.