Sports Commentary with Dan Riley

Daniel Riley 11:12 AM (5 hours ago) to Lillian, me, PWRnetwork This is Dan Riley. If congress wants to protect College Sports Act doesn’t, it needs to make it a legal requirement players must pass classes to play. For that matter, the Education Department should be allowed to track universities for academic fraud and fine athletic departments for academic fraud. Simply cutting down on transfers do...

Michigan was bailed out Saturday night by a moronic rule that handed Michigan an unearned win. Like the NFL ,a college football game is governed by a rulebook that doesn’t use critical thinking or logic to do so. College football’s competition committee needs to ask itself how to fix the rule that determined the outcome of the Michigan game-and itself.

Will Little’s injury a reminder refs need better compensation Inbox Daniel Riley 11:11 AM (10 minutes ago) to Lillian, me, PWRnetwork This is Dan Riley. Umpire Will Little became a reminder refs need better compensation from leagues, because the risk they take is mind boggling. With little protection, many risk serious injury-or worse. It’s time leagues compensated officials properly. For that mat...

This is Dan Riley. While everyone wants baseball in 2027, we can’t trust the games’ owners and players to prevent a lockout. There have been eight labor disputes in the game’s history, a testament to the ego of the games players and owners. I hope they realize playing games next year is most important, not cash. Otherwise, America’s Pastime will be dead and buried, and both the owners and their pl...

Daniel Riley 10:09 AM (11 minutes ago) to Lillian, me, PWRnetwork This is Dan Riley. Most of us will never play in an NFL stadium; still, our taxes go to build, say, the Buffalo Bills new one. Studies have found no economic benefit for the average person from these ventures. Instead, they benefit only the Robert Krafts and Joe Burrows of the world. Enough is enough!

Thank Goodness for NIA deals…and that most people in college sports are better than this! In 2003, Carlton Dotson took the life of a teammate, exposing the truth of life on the Baylor basketball team: head Coach Dave Bliss were looking the other way as players risked their health with street drugs, and paid players. Coach Bliss exposed his true character slandering Patrick Dennehy to protect himse...

This is Dan Riley. Al Pacino’s Inches Speech spoke about the importance of unity to a fractured team. It also perfectly captured the consequences of loss as you get older, like losing your innocence, like every Gen Zer, millennial, Gen Xer, and Baby Boomer has. We need to heed Pacino’s warning the country needs to heal and unite, or die as die as individual parties.

For Once, MLB’s commissioner has a good idea: impose a Salary cap. Until then, the Milwaukee Brewers and Baltimore can forget a world championship, and the big market teams will keep dominating. It will make baseball much more watchable knowing every team has a chance. Otherwise kiss America’s pastime goodbye!

This is Dan Riley. For generations, sports has involved codes of conduct . In the NFL, teams apply Mosaic Law to situations involving dirty hits. In hockey, you didn’t dare cheap shot Wayne Gretzky. Modern politics needs codes of conduct as well. Otherwise, things can only get worse for the country.

This is Dan Riley. Malik Beasley and Ed Davis disgraced the NBA getting arrested on betting charges, but it’s equally disgraceful we’ve legalized betting in America. Betting is addictive, of course, and can ruin your finances and mental health. This case just proves sports betting critics were right all along, regardless of whether these two men are guilty or not .

Malik Beasley and Ed Davis disgraced the NBA getting arrested on betting charges, but it’s equally disgraceful we’ve legalized betting in America. Betting is addictive, of course, and can ruin your finances and mental health. This case just proves sports betting critics were right all along, regardless of whether these two men are guilty or not .

This is Dan Riley. Stuart Scott changed the face of sportscasting, true. He also is a painful reminder cancer can strike anyone. Having seen two people come down with cancer in my family, I know a cure for cancer is more than worth the research dollars. We can’t afford to lose any more people to this illness.