Alvin Reid

A North Carolina law that opens the door to discrimination against members of the LGBT community has led the NCAA to take punitive action. Future NCAA men’s basketball tournament games will not be awarded to sites in that state until the law is addressed, and several other events will be moved. The NCAA said it […]

As the sports world enters 2016 here are some hopes and wishes for players, coaches, organizations and fans. May Jason Heyward greet the many boos he receives in his first plate appearance at Busch Stadium with the Chicago Cubs with a home run – or at least a base hit. May the St. Louis Cardinals […]

I’ve been to Bellerive Country Cub all of one time in my life. Ozzie Smith held a press conference there the morning after his selection to the Baseball Hall of Fame was announced in 2002. I wish I returned on Sunday for the final round of the 100th PGA Championship. As Tiger Woods sank a […]

Let the record show that Dexter Fowler scored the first run of the St. Louis Cardinals season in a 4-3 victory last Sunday night on ESPN. Randal Grichuk delivered the Cards’ two biggest blows with a two-run home run in the eighth inning and then a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the ninth. […]

When the NFL season regular season ended on January 1, there were six open head coaching positions. If you had told me one-third of those slots would be filled by black men, I would have doubted you. If you had told me no black coaches would be fired, bringing the total of African Americans guiding […]

The Lovie Smith era got underway last Saturday at Illinois in outstanding fashion before almost 50,000 fans in Memorial Stadium. The Illini dismantled Murray State 52-3 in Smith’s college head coaching debut. “There was a lot of anticipation for this,” the former Chicago Bears and Tampa Bay Bucs coach said following the game. “I didn’t […]

By the time you read this the NFL might have approved relocation of the St. Louis Rams to Inglewood, California. Multi-billionaire owner Stan Kroenke could have gotten his way after letting the region – in particularly the city of St. Louis – what he thinks of them. The lesson that again is being painfully learned […]

Missouri’s football program is at a crossroads. Coach Barry Odom has made an excellent move in hiring DeMontie Cross as defensive coordinator. A dominant linebacker in the early 1990s at Hazelwood East, Cross played for Missouri 1994-96 and posted 415 career tackles. A former teammate of Odom, he was the Tigers’ top tackler his junior […]

If the St. Louisans that were in tears and overwrought at the NFL town hall meeting last Tuesday put that same emotion into solving some of our region’s problems, they would have an immediate impact. Of course, the thought of losing the St. Louis Rams to Los Angeles is much more terrible than educational learning […]

It took less than an hour last Friday for a Manhattan jury to acquit Atlanta Hawks forward Thabo Sefolosha of three ridiculous charges filed against him by the New York prosecutor. The 6-foot, 6-inch Sefolosha was found not guilty of misdemeanor obstruction of justice, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. He allegedly did at least one […]