Image by Getty Images via DaylifeHopefully this will be my last soccer-related post for a while, but here's Tracy Ringolsby in Friday's Rocky Mountain News: Oakland assistant general manager David Forst is quick to decline interview requests for GM jobs because he figures to be the head man with the Athletics as early as next season. [...]...

In case you missed it, Terry Bradshaw told Dan Patrick that he took steroids during his NFL career: "The steroids I'd always taken was to speed up the healing process and that was it. It wasn't to get bigger, stronger, faster," Bradshaw told Dan Patrick on Patrick's radio show. He not did specify what kind of steroids [...]...

From the Numbers Guy: These systems, with names such as ProZone and Amisco, use cameras and analysts to record the movement of players and balls around the field. They measure tactical statistics such as the percentage of completed passes and number of crosses, and also quantify movement, such as the number of times each player sprints [...]...

It is about the money, stupid interviewed agent Matt Sosnick, who was the subject of Jerry Crasnick's License to Deal (hat tip: Maury): IIATMS: There's been a recent trend of locking up rookies with longer term contracts to buy out their arbitration years. How do you advise your players? MS: It's completely a risk/reward discussion. Anything [...]...

Maury and co. weigh in on the state of the game. Tango responded with this: This is the state of MLB. Its success is measured from the non-fans perspective based on how much money they can get from its customers and advertisers, and how much they can get from public financing. Unless you sell [...]...