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Jeff Neuman
Jeff Neuman is a sportswriter and editor, and co-author of A Disorderly Compendium of Golf.
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- Sorry Knicks, LeBron's Not Coming - November 18, 2009
- Wake up and smell the powder, New York. LeBron's not coming. It's hard to blame Knicks fans for clinging to hope. The most sophisticated basketball clientele in...
- What Do We Know After Another Football Sunday? - November 16, 2009
- We're past the halfway point of the NFL season, and the year still felt somewhat unformed as it headed into Week 10. Fortunately, the schedule provided a number of...
- What Do We Know After Another Football Sunday? - RCS - November 16, 2009
- We're past the halfway point of the NFL season, and the year still felt somewhat unformed as it headed into Week 10. Fortunately, the schedule provided a number of...
- Charlie, Can We Talk About Your Pitching Plans? - RCS - November 4, 2009
- Charlie, Charlie, can we talk? I know, the last thing you want to do is listen to me. Or anybody. You know what you're doing. You've won four division titles in eight...
- Charlie, Can We Talk About Your Pitching Plans? - November 3, 2009
- Charlie, Charlie, can we talk? I know, the last thing you want to do is listen to me. Or anybody. You know what you're doing. You've won four division titles in eight...
- Most Exciting Series in a Generation - October 28, 2009
- Twelve months ago, the Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series. Two months later, after committing a tidy $423 million to three players - on top of the gazillions...
- Most Exciting Series in a Generation - RealClearSports - October 28, 2009
- Twelve months ago, the Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series. Two months later, after committing a tidy $423 million to three players - on top of the gazillions...
- ALCS Preview - October 16, 2009
- The 2009 ALCS between the Yankees and Angels will be a battle of tangibles and intangibles. The on-field assets of these two teams are obvious; so, this year, are the...
- NLCS Preview: Dodgers vs. Phillies - October 15, 2009
- Plucky underdog stories are so last year. There are no Tampa Bays among baseball's final four this year. All the participants in the 2009 League Championship Series are...
- The Dome That Wouldn't Die - RealClearSports - October 7, 2009
- Don't put the Hefty Bag out by the curb just yet. Rinse out the Homer Hankies, and don't toss the ear plugs. The most ill-conceived park in major-league baseball lives...
- The Dome That Wouldn't Die - October 7, 2009
- Don't put the Hefty Bag out by the curb just yet. Rinse out the Homer Hankies, and don't toss the ear plugs. The most ill-conceived park in major-league baseball...
- Hot August Notes: Pitino, Phelps and Tiger - August 17, 2009
- It's summer. It's hot. The dog days are upon us. And the world of sports has gone stark staring mad. I offer a few observations on the utter insanity of the past few...
- Keep Rose Banned 'Til Death - August 7, 2009
- He last played a game in 1986. He was banned from baseball for life in 1989. He maintained his innocence for fourteen years, until he saw the opportunity to sell his...
- British Open: Championship or Chokefest? - July 19, 2009
- In golf circles, the argument rages: Did Jack Nicklaus face tougher competition than Tiger Woods does, or is Tiger's dominance the reason his competitors look...
- Top 10 Players in Uniforms that Just Looked Wrong - RealClearSports - July 7, 2009
- Most athletes are essentially itinerant laborers. They go where the job is, changing locker rooms and fan bases and color schemes as often as they have to, for the...
- This Week in Sports History - June 28, 2009
- Brazil wins its first World Cup, June 29, 1958: Brazil wins its first World Cup with a 5-2 victory over host nation Sweden in the finals. Seventeen-year-old sensation...
- Maybe Not the Worst Open, but Possibly the Oddest - June 22, 2009
- When the U.S. Open comes to Bethpage State Park, they call it "the People's Open," so it's only fitting that one of the people won it. Lucas Glover will not be mistaken...
- Keeping an Open Mind to the Open Contenders - RCS - June 22, 2009
- Keeping an Open Mind - June 21, 2009
- Everyone who had the Ricky Barnes-Lucas Glover exacta, raise your hands. And did you remember to include David Duval in your box for the triple? Didn't think so. What if...
- Rain Delays and Mondays Always Get Me Down - June 21, 2009
- Heading into Saturday's play at the 109th U.S. Open, golfers and fans alike had reason to fear a repeat of Thursday's abbreviated session. A flood watch was in effect,...
- The 15th at Bethpage Black Tells Her Tale - June 19, 2009
- Let me say first of all, that whatever you've heard, I am not a brute. I'm also not a tease, and I'm not a flirt. I think I'm pretty straightforward; what you see is...
- For a Good Time, Don't Call Bethpage - June 18, 2009
- The U.S. Open is no fun. That's the point of it. It's a stern test of a player's ability that weeds out the pretenders and frightens the weak. The Black Course at...
- Mike Miles: Back at the Open After 22 Years - June 18, 2009
- It's not that Mike Miles isn't happy to be at Bethpage Black, playing in the U.S. Open; it's that he's not just happy to be there. "I'm playing really well," said Miles,...
- A Tough Week for the Chosen Ones - June 3, 2009
- In the Conference Finals, however, the Cavs had no answer for Dwight Howard and the Magic’s three-point shooters, who came alive after struggling against Philadelphia...
- A Tough Week for the Chosen Ones - RealClearSports - June 3, 2009
- LeBron is still looking for his Pippen, Sid came up empty in Hockeytown, and Rafa learned there’s not always a happy ending to his roman à clay.
- It's Been a Wild Week of Sports - RealClearSports - May 7, 2009
- The sports scene in early May is a glutton's delight: four series each in hockey and basketball, baseball starting to settle into its rhythm, football fans still...
- NOTES FROM THE OVERSTUFFED - May 7, 2009
- Yes, I understand it’s used by men to jumpstart their testosterone following a steroids cycle, but still: a female fertility drug? Is this Manny being WoManny? Derek...
- Fidrych Saved Baseball; Baseball Destroyed Fidrych - RCS - April 14, 2009
- He was the right man in the right place at the right time.He was the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time.It feels strange to call Mark Fidrych a "man,"�...
- Fidrych Saved Baseball; Baseball Destroyed Fidrych - April 14, 2009
- The game had been in a downward spiral since the ascendance of pro football in the 1960s. It was a radio game in the television age, too slow and static for the visual...
- Anything is Possible on Opening Day - RealClearSports - April 5, 2009
- In Ballpark of the Mind, There Exists an Ideal Opening Day - April 5, 2009
- I had been to Opening Day at Fenway Park several times before. In 1975, I saw Carl Yastrzemski and Tony Conigliaro create the season’s first run with a double steal,...
- Top 10 March Madness Shockers - RealClearSports - March 19, 2009
- Year after year, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament delivers excitement and surprise more reliably than any other sporting event. The first week is an overstuffed...
- Who Cares About the World Baseball Classic? - March 18, 2009
- It’s also a hoot, and if you’ve been too busy preparing to fill out your brackets to watch any of it, you’ve missed some of the most dramatic baseball you’ll see...
- Who Cares About the World Baseball Classic? - RCS - March 17, 2009
- Rethinking Steroids - February 17, 2009
- We howl with outrage when athletes use steroids. But why are we surprised? They’re doing what we want them to do – i.e., everything they can to win.We want sports...
- Rethinking Steroids - RealClearSports - February 16, 2009
- "�Baseball players will take anything. If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins but might take five years off his life, he'd take it."�Jim Bouton...
- Picking The Super Bowl? Remember The Obvious - January 31, 2009
- Super Bowl XLIII presents a classic offense-defense matchup. When the Arizona Cardinals’ offense lines up against the Pittsburgh Steelers’ defense, more than a...
- Picking The Super Bowl? Remember The Obvious - RCS - January 30, 2009
- The Super Bowl: NFL's Contribution to Sports Idiocy - RCS - January 27, 2009
- Rickey's Greatness is in the Runs, Not the Running - January 13, 2009
- Unless you were among the 21,000 at Qualcomm Stadium that night, you probably don’t remember the moment. When Pete Rose topped Cobb’s record for career hits, the...