Craig Tyson Adams

Some guy pitched an MLB no-hitter. His name is Tyler Gilbert . If you don’t know who he is, that’s okay, me either. I’ve been following baseball since 1974. His name has never come up.  There have been a record 8 no-hitters thrown this year. That’s a lot. Like Larry King getting married a lot. The thing that makes Gilbert’s accomplishment for the Arizona Diamondbacks stand out is that it was his first major league start. That’s rare. It’s only happened 4 times since 1876.  The first two times a pitcher hurled an MLB no-hitter in his first start was back in the 1890s. Baseball was different back then. Home runs didn’t happen unless a fielder made a mistake, and the ball got by him. There weren’t pitching mounds back then, and they pitched from 55.5 feet away. Today’s pitchers throw from 60 feet and 6 inches.  Both no-hitters happened on the last day of the season, so my guess is the players wanted to get out of there and get to the pub. There were different priorities before players m

It turned out that tackling topped Tim Tebow’s time at tight-end.  Tim Tebow won the Heisman Trophy as a quarterback in 2007 while playing college football at Florida State. His head coach while playing there was Urban Meyer. The NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars hired Meyer to be their head coach this year.  When Urban Meyer got to camp with the Jaguars, the team had a number one first-round pick in the NFL draft. They also had a dashing cultural phenom and a relatively proficient incumbent quarterback named Gardner Minshew.  The team used the first-round pick on what Jaguars general manager Trent Baalke called the most pivotal pick in team history. Clemson University’s Trevor Lawrence, considered to be one of the best college quarterbacks of all time. Coach Meyer wasn’t thinking he needed another play-caller. Why would he need Tim Tebow?  The Denver Broncos drafted Tebow into the NFL after college. The Bronco's head coach at the time was a former Bill Belichick disciple, Josh McDanie

There was an MLB game played in a cornfield last night. They played the game in Iowa. We know Iowa for its agriculture. A cornfield in Iowa isn’t out of place. Major League Baseball in Iowa is.  The game was between the American League Central division-leading Chicago White Sox and the legendary New York Yankees . People that attended the game drove to a town in Iowa called Dyersville. Attendees parked in a gravel lot and got to walk through a corn maze to get to the field. Once there, there was a temporary baseball field that was constructed especially for the game.  Why go to all this effort? What’s all the fuss about? Why did Major League Baseball have two of their franchises transport their collective multi-millionaire players to the middle of the Midwest to play a single game?  To commemorate a movie, Field Of Dreams starring Kevin Costner , made 32 years ago. Now, I’m not one to make fun of nostalgia. MLB Field of Dreams is just that. I’ve got old records. My movie collec