Sometimes fans can be hypocrites. So many fans have supported Aldon Smith and gushed with empathy for him. This is a guy who shot off illegal guns and got drunk and drove into a tree. OK, fine show sympathy. Some of the same fans are down on Jonathan Martin, call [...]
The Miami Dolphins' mess gets worse. Here's a link to a story which claims Martin's agent contacted Dolphins' GM Jeff Ireland about the way Richie Incognito was treating Martin. Ireland's response? Martin should clock Incognito. Some response. Investigators into this mess are asking if Martin ever reached out to head [...]
Here is a link to a story saying the Dolphins support Richie Incognito over Jonathan Martin. The Dolphins seem like morons. How did Martin get to be the bad guy in this narrative? In the story as I see it, Incognito is the heavy. Period.
Here is a link to my column about harassment on the Miami Dolphins. The full text appears below: You learn new things — troubling things — about sports all the time. The past few decades we've learned about performance-enhancing drugs, especially in baseball and track and field, and we've formed [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.