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The Saints Win the Big One: Feb. 8, 2010
A Little Bit of Thisa and Data: Feb. 8, 2010
Talk, Talk, Talk From Australia: Feb. 1, 2010
Crossroads Day for Quarterbacks: Jan. 25;, 2010
Late Night With...Tony Braithwaite?: Jan. 18, 2010
A Wise Voice From the Left Falls Silent: Jan. 4, 2010
The D'Lugoff Legacy: Dec. 21, 2009
IRED Ratings--2009: Dec. 7, 2009
Astaire Vs. Kelly: Nov. 30, 2009
When Jewish Fighters Ruled: Nov. 23, 2009
The Ominous Shadow of Chaosistan: Nov. 16, 2009
The World Series Most of You Missed: Nov. 9, 2009
Musings Inspired by Playoff Baseball: Oct. 26, 2009
All You Ever Wanted To Know About Sports Movies: Oct. 19, 2009
A New Hero...From Congress?: Oct. 12, 2009
"The Philly Fan": Oct. 5, 2009
Wisdom in the Public Prints: Sept. 28, 2009
The Less-than-classy U.S. Open Tennis Meet: Sept. 21, 2009
That Glorious Day in 1950: Sept. 14, 2009
The Grand Old Young Man of Tennis: Sept. 7, 2009
A Hidden Treasure Named Tony: Aug. 31, 2009
My Sports Overhaul Plan: Aug. 24, 2009
Budd Schulberg, 1914-2009: Aug. 17, 2009
Shaky Rules at the Hall of Fame: Aug. 10, 2009
Ahem! It's Still Baseball Time!: Aug. 3, 2009
Remember the Rehnquist Rumba?: July 27, 2009
What I Did On My Summer Excursion: July 20, 2009
Giants...by the numbers: July 13, 2009
How To Make the Court Turn Left: June 29, 2009
Beware the Blogs!: June 29, 2009
Hats Off to Hochman: June 15, 2009
Borel's Big Mistake: June 8, 2009
Reasons For Loving the Belmont Stakes: June 1, 2009
The Unforgettable Woodie: May 25, 2009
A Filly For the Ages: May 18, 2009
Brooklyn By the Numbers: May 11, 2009
'You Know-itis' Infects Biden: May 4, 2009
Paying the Price: April 20, 2009
A Browser's View of Sports: April 13, 2009
A Freud's Eye View of the National Pastime: April 6, 2009
Putting Hollywood Quotes in the Right Mouths: March 30, 2009
Bracketing the Presidents: March 23, 2009
Boondoggle-arama?: March 16, 2009
A Historic Injustice: March 9, 2009
That Incredible Game: March 2, 2009
A Sportscasting High Wire Act: Feb. 23, 2009
Slumdog Casablanca: Feb. 16, 2009
Milestones From Baseball's Rule Book: Feb. 9, 2009
Sports in America, Part Two: Feb. 2, 2009
Sports in America, Part One: Jan. 26, 2009
The Goat That Inspired A President: Jan. 19, 2009
The Angst of Victory?: Jan. 12, 2009
'Bowl'-ing For Chuckles: Jan. 5, 2009
2008
Sports Guy Goes Longhair: Dec. 22, 2008
Governor Superfan: Dec. 15, 2008
The Embarrassing Bill Kristol: Dec. 8, 2008
IRED Ratings 2008: Dec. 1, 2008
Muhammad Ali's Place in History: Nov. 24, 2008
Pro Football in Philadelphia: Nov. 17, 2008
A Salute To Ivy League Football: Nov. 10, 2008
A Series Game To Treasure: Oct. 27, 2008
Barack Obama, Sports Dude: Oct. 20, 2008
Talk About Bum Advice!: Oct. 13, 2008
The Catbird Seat Rhubarb: Oct. 6, 2008
Pitchers Who Go All The Way: Sept. 29, 2008
Revising the Legend of Leonard & The Chipmunks: Sept. 22, 2008
Watching Out For No. 2: Sept. 15, 2008
The Prince of Prognosticators: Sept. 8, 2008
The Book You Must Have Now!!!: Sept. 1, 2008
Fighting McCain's Chutzpah: Aug. 25, 2008
Adventures of the Ultimate Letter Planter: Aug. 18, 2008
Welcome to the Hall of Shame: Aug. 11, 2008
The Skeptics' Primer For the Olympic Games: Aug. 4, 2008
Olympic Memories of 'Moon' Mondschein: Aug. 4, 2008
Women To Match Our Mountains: July 21, 2008
The All-Star Scam & Other Issues: July 14, 2008
The Wimbledon Report: July 7, 2008
There's Something About Mary Carillo: June 30, 2008
Jottings From Dog-Eared Notebooks: June 23, 2008
The Ultimate Golf Match: June 17, 2008
The Big, Big Brown-Out: June 9, 2008
Day of the Big Fire (by Ellen Isaacs): June 9, 2008
Some Gleanings From The Sporting Life: May 26, 2008
Big Brown and Racing's Future: May 19, 2008
...After the Fall: May 12, 2008
Classy Tim McCarver: May 5, 2008
Just A Few Words with Lou Piniella: April 21, 2008
Beware the Chinese Olympics!: April 7, 2008
The Un-Baseball Park Rises Again: March 31, 2008
In Love With the Essence of Baseball: March 24, 2008
The Un-Natural: March 17, 2008
What About the New Cuba?: March 10, 2008
Rich Details of Louis-Schmeling II: March 3, 2008
The Brown Bomber vs. Hitler's Pride: March 3, 2008
The Red Flag Tennis Match: Feb. 25, 2008
"There Will Be Blood": Feb. 18, 2008
The Roger Clemens Affair: Feb. 18, 2008
Super Bowl #42--The Big Upset: Feb. 4, 2008
When is An Endorsement NOT An Endorsement?: Feb. 4, 2008
Meet the New Dream Team: Jan. 7, 2008
2007
Another Big Boo For O'Malley: Dec. 17, 2007
Shifty's Boys: Dec. 10, 2007
A Grand Old Rivalry: Dec. 3, 2007
IRED #47: Nov. 26, 2007
A Remembrance of Norman Mailer: Nov. 19, 2007
More Memories of Charles Schulz: Nov. 5, 2007
A Rewarding Day at the Races: Oct. 29, 2007
Exit--JoeTorre: Oct. 22, 2007
In Tribute to Al Oerter (Part Two): Oct. 22, 2007
In Tribute To Al Oerter (Part One): Oct. 15, 2007
Of Generals and Presidents: Oct. 4, 2007
Let's Call It...Philadelpheuphoria!: Oct. 2, 2007
A Scarlet Letter For Belichick?: Sept. 17, 2007
A Student Speaks Up: Sept. 3, 2007
Pshaw to Bonds' Record: Aug. 20, 2007
A Browser's View of Pugilistic Fare: Aug. 20, 2007
The Sports Front--Once Over Lightly: Aug. 6, 2007
Shame Time For Sports: July 30, 2007
HBO's "Brooklyn Dodgers--The Ghosts of Flatbush": July 16, 2007
The Final Take for Charles Lane: July 16, 2007
Images From Wimbledon 2007: July 9, 2007
Once Upon A Time At Wimbledon...: July 3, 2007
Bill Nack: June 25, 2007
The Old Pro--Larry Merchant: June 18, 2007
Rags to Riches--Filly of the Century?: June 11, 2007
A Game To Remember: June 4, 2007
Focus on The Preakness: May 21, 2007
Playing Catchup On Sports: May 14, 2007
A Windy Night Out With the Phillies: April 23, 2007
The Glory of No. 42: April 16, 2007
Bumbling Along with Bush & Co.: April 9, 2007
The Dilemma That is Pete Rose: April 2, 2007
The Orchid Man: March 26, 2007
A Favorite Curmudgeon: March 19, 2007
A Night At A Cathedral of Basketball: March 12, 2007
In Praise of Ira Berkow: March 5, 2007
Cartoonist Tony Auth--An Appreciation: Feb. 26, 2007
Best 1981: Feb. 19, 2007
Super Bowl, Delightfully Sloppy Super Bowl!: Feb. 5, 2007
The Return of Isaacstan: Jan. 29, 2007
Unforgettable! That's What It Was!: Jan. 22, 2007
Our View From the Couch: Jan. 15, 2007
The Anatomy of Two Great Plays: Jan. 8, 2007
The Saga of Lieberman's Leap: Jan. 1, 2007
Defending the Arts: Dec. 18, 2006
The 2006 IRED Ratings: Dec. 4, 2006
The Tale of A Good Dog: Nov. 20, 2006
Tony Kornheiser--The Prodigy Grown Famous: Nov. 13, 2006
A Sampler of Sports Musings: Oct. 30, 2006
A Smorgasbord of Baseball-iana: Oct. 23, 2006
The Tigers' 'D' is A Winner: Oct. 16, 2006
A Baseball Playoff Sampler: Oct. 9, 2006
Basesball Did the Kid In: Oct. 2, 2006
Waking Up Echoes of Jimmie Foxx: Sept. 25, 2006
The Tilden Tragedy: Sept. 4, 2006
Jewish Major Leaguers--Then & Now: Aug. 28, 2006
The 'Feud' That Never Happened: Aug. 21, 2006
Short Shots in Sundry Directions: Aug. 14, 2006
The Radio Days of Woody Allen: Aug. 7, 2006
My Updater on July Sports: July 31, 2006
A Bit of Rich Wimbledon Lore: July 3, 2006
I Would Like To Like Soccer, But...:June 26, 2006
The U.S. Open--From Tedium To Disaster: June 19, 2006
A Typical TV Saturday: June 12, 2006
Art or Hollywood Kitsch?: June 5, 2006
The Philadelphia Inquirer--Skewed On Sports: May 29, 2006
The Awful, Awful Preakness: May 22, 2006
Time For Another Secretariat?: May 10, 2006
Was it Dobbin? Sparky? Mr. Ed?: April 20, 2006
Ah! Baseball's Back!: April 3, 2006
A Pox on the Face of Baseball: March 27, 2006
Two Fever-Inducing Sports Events: March 20, 2006
The Truth About Pat Tillman: March 13, 2006
Our Favorite Comic Book Heroes: March 6, 2006
A Movie Curmudgeon Wails Anew: Feb. 27, 2006
Do You Believe in Miracles?: Feb. 20, 2006
Stan Meets A Drag Queen: Feb. 13, 2006
Super Bowl Report: Feb. 6, 2006
Shhh! It's the Super Bowl!: Jan. 30, 2006
My Life-long Passion for Liebling: Jan. 23, 2006
Thoughts While Doing A Playoff Weekend: Jan. 16, 2006
Paterno's Overweening Mystique: Jan. 9, 2006
The Man They Called 'King Kong': Jan. 2, 2006
Academia's Moola Bowls: Dec. 19, 2005
Readers Strike Back: Dec. 19, 2005
The 2005 IRED Ratings: Dec. 5, 2005
Pee Wee and Jackie...Forever: Nov. 14, 2005
Lessons From the Horse Racing Bible: Oct. 31, 2005
Stan Picks A Candidate: Oct. 24, 2005
Was It Truth Or Myth?: Oct. 10. 2005
Bob Costas--Premium Broadcaster, Pt. Two: Oct. 3, 2005
Bob Costas--Premium Broadcaster, Pt. One: Sept. 26, 2005
Waking Echoes of Mel Ott: Sept. 19, 2005
A Match for the Ages: Sept. 12, 2005
Age Vs. Youth on the Golf Course: Aug. 29, 2005
The Wickers of Merion: Aug. 29, 2005
Some Baseball...By the Numbers: Aug. 22, 2005
Revenge of the Armchair Spectator: Aug. 15, 2005
The Education of A Horse Trainer: Aug. 8, 2005
Telling the Whole Truth: Aug. 1, 2005
In Defense of Philadelphia Sports Fans: July 27, 2005
'Cinderella Man' Rings True: July 18, 2005
A Long-Ago Walk in the Windy City: July 14, 2005
How About A Little THISA & THATA?: July 4, 2005
"We Don't Need Your Stinkin' Stadiums": June 27, 2005
My Love Affair with the Belmont Stakes: June 20, 2005
The Stain That Endures: May 30, 2005
Koo's Big Coup: May 23, 2005
Horse Race Betting 1A: May 16, 2005
How Two Masters Saw the Derby: May 2, 2005
They Call It Citizens Bank Park: April 25, 2005
An Evening with Saul Bellow: April 18, 2005
I Become A Phillies Fan...Well, Almost: April 11, 2005
Isaacstan Endures!!: April 4, 2005
It's Stan, the Baseball Answer Man: March 28, 2005
Steroids in Baseball--The Past is Finally Present: March 21, 2005
If Your Name is Isaacs, Take A Bow: March 14, 2005
A Cheerful Goodbye to Bad Bill Safire: March 7, 2005
Only the Baseball Fans Are Pure: Feb. 28, 2005
A Curmudgeon's View of the Oscars: Feb. 21, 2005
Farewell To My Home Town: Feb. 14, 2005
Super Bowl XXXIX: Feb. 7, 2005
Let's End Philly's Despair: Jan. 31, 2005
The Greatest Athlete of Them All Was...: Jan. 24, 2005
In Memory of Two Remarkable Friends: Jan. 17, 2005
The People We Most Want To See Less of in 2005 (with staff): Jan. 10, 2005
The True Legacy of Reggie White: Jan. 10, 2005
The Day I Discovered the Maldive Islands: Jan. 3, 2005
2004
Immortality and Its Price: Dec. 13, 2004
Curse of the IRED Ratings: Dec. 6, 2004
The Great American Baseball Novel: Nov. 29, 2004
Gentlemen Don't Win Elections: Nov. 15, 2004
Big News From Isaacstan!: Oct. 27, 2004
Stan's Baseball Grab Bag: Oct. 19, 2004
California, 1934: Oct. 11, 2004
The Day the Mets Won the Pennant: Oct. 4, 2004
Let's Hear It For the Cheyney Wolves!: Sept. 27, 2004
If I Ruled the Sports World: Sept. 20, 2004
ESPN is A Good Thing, I Think: Sept. 13, 2004
The Lombardi-von Clausewitz Strategy: Sept. 6, 2004
Stan's Olympiad, Part Three: Aug. 30, 2004
Stan's Olympiad, Part Two: Aug. 23, 2004
A Yank at Oxford: Aug. 23, 2004
Stan's Olympiad, Part One: Aug. 16, 2004
Smarty Jones--Another Might-Have-Been: Aug. 9, 2004
Convention Hollering: Aug. 2, 2004
The Man Who Celebrated Red Barber: Aug. 2, 2004
A Paean To HBO & ESPN: July 26, 2004
A Visit With A Music Man in London Town: July 5, 2004
An Homage to Roger Bannister: July 5, 2004
A Soccer Innocent Abroad: June 28, 2004
Let's Not Forget Sam Nahem: June 14, 2004
The Sad, Sad Tale of Smarty Jones: June 7, 2004
There Once Was A Horse: May 31, 2004
The Japanese in the Press Box: May 24, 2004
Smarty at the Preakness: May 17, 2004
Charley Smash: May 17, 2004
Charting the Races: May 10, 2004
Oops! This Tout Was No Smarty Pants: May 3, 2004
The Great Chocolate-Covered Graham Cracker Tasting: May 3, 2004
...And the Winner of the Kentucky Derby is...:April 26, 2004
Opening Week Walkabout at the Ball Park: April 19, 2004
(Rotisserie) Baseball is MY National Pasttime: April 12, 2004
Our 'Sissy' President?: April 5, 2004
Baseball at the Supreme Court: March 29, 2004
Baseball, Steroids and the Union: March 15, 2004
A Tip of the Hat to Howard Dean: March 8, 2004
Let Us Now Praise Larry Ritter: March 1, 2004
SUPER BOWL XXXVIII: Feb. 2, 2004
Five Nominees for the Hall of Fame: Jan. 19, 2004
Some Short Shots in Sundry Directions: Jan. 5. 2004
2003
The Spirit of Nixon Lives...on Left Lapels: Dec. 21, 2003
A Night at the Fights--Hearthside with HBO: Dec. 8, 2003
This is the Weekend of MY Big Game: Nov. 17, 2003
Ten Events That Flowered in The Garden: Oct. 26, 2003
Innings To Die For: Oct. 20, 2003
Shoemaker and Arcaro: Oct. 20, 2003
The 'Swoosh' Could Be America's Salvation: Oct. 13, 2003
Curse of the Closer: Oct. 6, 2003
The Ring Judging Follies: Sept. 29, 2003
A Communist Sports Writer: Sept. 22, 2003
Pity All News Junkies Abroad: Sept. 15, 2003
Some Ravings of An Irate Left Fielder: Sept. 8, 2003
The IRED Ratings Strike Again: Aug. 25, 2003
Scrooge Rides Again!: Aug. 18, 2003
A Weekend on the Road with Howard Dean Groupies: Aug. 11, 2003
The Seabiscuit That Never Was: Aug. 4, 2003
When Hillary Met Costas: July 28, 2003
Mel Ott--His Record is Fading: July 21, 2003
Chickenhawks on Parade: July 14, 2003
The Life and Times of the Copyboy Seven: July 7, 2003
Remembering: Two Great Men: June 30, 2003
The Eatery of Sports Legends: June 23, 2003
Funny Cide Failed, but NBC Saved the Day: June 9, 2003
Presenting the Preakness: May 19, 2003
Rooting For A Triple Crown Win: May 12, 2003
NBC's Kentucky Derby...A Scorecard: May 5, 2003
Grisham Must Be A Fan of Stan the Man: April 21, 2003
Stan's Letter: April 14, 2003
The Mystery of Paul Revere's Horse: April 14, 2003
A Left-Fielder's 2003 Opening Day: April 7, 2003
Baseball is Icummen In: March 31, 2003
More Truth From Inside Iraq: March 24, 2003
Chicago--I Love the Razzle Dazzle Razzmatazz: March 17, 2003
Bush vs. Saddam: March 10, 2003
Jim Brown & Me: March 3, 2003
My Calaveras County Jumping Frog Adventure: Feb. 17, 2003
Gambling and A Little Reality: Feb. 10, 2003
An Asylum for Saddam...and Bush?: Feb. 3, 2003
The Super Bowl: Jan. 27, 2003
When Some Silence Might Be Golden: Jan. 13, 2003
New Jersey, New Jersey: It Was A Football Paradise: Jan. 6, 2003
2002
Faces in the Crowd--2002: Dec. 30, 2002
Classic Reruns--in the Nick of Time: Dec. 16, 2002
The One and Only Christmas Stakes: Dec. 16, 2002
A Night in the Control Room with Roone Arledge: Dec. 6, 2002
A Sports Scribe Rare Was Old George Phair: Dec. 2, 2002
The Cuban Baseball Days of Ernest Hemingway: Nov. 25, 2002
An Appreciation (almost) of the Pick Six Rogues: Nov. 18, 2002
New York, New York is Outsmarting Itself: Nov. 11, 2002
All the World Loves Sandy Koufax...Well, Almost: Nov. 4, 2002
A Day at the Races: Oct. 28, 2002
The Cyclops of TV's World Series Sees Everything: Oct. 21, 2002
A Triumph for Anti-Yankee Fans: Oct. 7, 2002
North to Alaska!: Sept. 30, 2002
Justice for Merkle: Sept. 23, 2002
I'll Fly No Flag on Sept. 11: Sept. 9, 2002
A Day at the Races in Vietnam: Aug. 19, 2002
Rating the World's Flags: Aug. 19, 2002
The Stuff of Dreams: Aug. 12, 2002
Philadelphia Philly Phans are Phun-Filled Phanatics: Aug. 5, 2002
Off the Road with Jack Kerouac: July 21, 2002
A Measured Look at Ted Williams, Mortal Slugger: July 14, 2002
Broadway Bill: July 14, 2002
The Wound That Won't Stop Festering: June 30, 2002
Top Jock Jerry Bailey & the $269.20 Payoff: June 16, 2002
Rooting Against A Triple Crown: June 2, 2002
Ira Berkow's Bountiful Book: May 26, 2002
IRED No. 2: May 12, 2002
Curious Baseball News: May 5, 2002
Don Zimmer, Race Track Man?: April 28, 2002
A Schmooze Conversation about Barry Bonds: April 21, 2002
Baseball Memories Are Made of This: April 14, 2002
Thucydides Had Nothing on Woody Broun: March 31, 2002
Vacationer in Vietnam: March 24, 2002
Isaacstan Frozen Out of Winter Olympics!: Feb. 17, 2002
A Night of Boxing in London: Feb. 17, 2002
Pardon Me if I Don't Warm Up to the Winter Olympics: Feb. 10, 2002
A Sports Idol Who Was Loved at Home: Feb. 3, 2002
Are We Ready for TV's Death Channel?: Jan. 27, 2002
What's in A Name? What About Joe?: Jan. 13, 2002
2001
Ali, the Movie, Wakes Up Some Echoes: Dec. 30, 2001
In Baseball the Rich Get Richer--It's Just Business: Dec. 23, 2001
The Coming of Age of Isaacstan: Dec. 16, 2001
Pro Football is Better on the Tube: Dec. 9, 2001
This Young Woman Has Some Racing Pedigree: Dec. 2, 2001
A Passionate Plea to Clean Up Boxing: Nov. 18, 2001
The Premier of Isaacstan Has A Dilemma: Nov. 11, 2001
New York World Series: Oct. 28, 2001
Reflecting on Terror 2: Oct. 21, 2001
Budd Schulberg: Back in the Ring Again: Oct. 14, 2001
Reflecting on Terror: Sept. 30, 2001
Tracking Down the Elusive 'Walk-off Home Run': Sept. 9, 2001
There Once Was A Tennis Player from Nepal: Sept. 2, 2001
The Great Toll-Booth Shotmakers Are A Dying Breed: Aug. 26, 2001
Sudden Death Madness: Aug. 5, 2001
Bobby Valentine's Mini Hall of Fame: July 29, 2001
A Day at the Giants' Xanadu by the Sea: July 22, 2001
Revisiting the Shot Heard 'round the World: July 8, 2001
Some Great Days in Brooklyn: July 1, 2001
The Isaacs Ratings: June 24, 2001
The Belmont Stakes: June 10, 2001
They Still Carry Brown Paper Bags: June 3, 2001
The Dazzling Race Calls of Tom Durkin: June 3, 2001
The Legendary Seabiscuit: May 27, 2001
The Preakness: May 20, 2001
Billy Crystal's '61*' Isn't the One I Remember: May 6, 2001
Bobby Riggs wasn't such a buffoon after all: April 8, 2001
All-Time Dream Team: April 1, 2001
CALL TO ARMS!: March 25, 2001
There Once Was A Man Named Luisetti: March 11, 2001
Playing the Whining Game: March 4, 2001
Carter vs. Giardello...One More Time: Feb. 25, 2001
Sublimely Preposterous Sports News: Feb. 11, 2001
A Statue to Honor Two Boys of Summer: Feb. 4, 2001
CLASH of the TITANS: Jan. 21, 2001
The Passing of A Giant: Jan. 7, 2001
My Advice to All Gridvid Widows: Dec. 31, 2000
Pete Rose: Dec. 10, 2000
Hit This Sign & Win A New Suit!: Nov. 10, 2000
Helen Wills Moody: Nov. 3, 2000
Joe DiMaggio: Oct. 27, 2000
How Tim McCarver Became A Kvetch!: Oct.16, 2000
The Olympic Games: Supermarket of Sports: Sept. 15, 2000
Show Us El Dinero!: Aug. 8, 2000
A Visit to the Headwaters of the Hooligan Tide: June 29, 2000
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