(Image Courtesy of AP; Getty Images) ESPN.com is reporting that Tom Brady has won his appeal against the NFL and DeflateGate has been tossed. It is hard to beat Tom Brady in 2015. After stomping on the Indianapolis Colts with over-inflated footballs, and winning one of the most exciting Super Bowls in memory, David has taken […]
Watch Your Back, Hillary Clinton and Lois Lerner
(Above image courtesy of Elsa/Getty Images) * Although every effort has been made for this article to be objective, it discusses politics as it relates to current events in sports. Any views expressed in this article are only views of the writer, and not necessarily On The Bench Report. Deflate-Gate. How a story about the air pressure […]
How “Playmakers” paved the way for “Ballers”
Anyone remember the show “Playmakers”on ESPN? Didn’t think so. For those of you who may of missed it in 2003 running for less than four months from August till November. It showed us the backdrop of a fake football league full of players who weren’t exactly model citizens off the field. Basically think “Any Given […]
Poor Officiating Sports Rankings Part 2
Above Image (courtesy of www.amishbabymachine.com) As I mentioned back in April, at OTBR we are going to chart through the year the performance of major sports in the world (mostly North American) to see who will win the 2015 brass whistle for poor officiating. After all, sometimes the REFS -DO MAKE YOUR TEAM LOSE. If you are not […]
Watch Your Back, Aaron Rodgers
(Image Courtesy of Mike DiNovo-USA TODAY Sports) The Deflate-Gate drama continued yesterday (May 14, 2015) with Tom Brady formally appealing his suspension and Bob Kraft and the New England Patriots releasing a rebuttal report on their very own “The Wells Report in Context” website. Not only do these two events ensure we are all going to […]