Jordan Kobritz is a former attorney, CPA, and Minor League Baseball team owner. He is a professor and the chair of the Sport Management Department at SUNY Cortland. Jordan maintains the blog: http://sportsbeyondthelines.com and can be reached at jordan.kobritz@cortland.edu.
Recent Stories
Kobritz: Legal sports betting may add billions to Major League teams
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Mark Cuban recently said: “I think everyone who owns a top four professional sports team just basically saw the value of their team double.”
Kobritz: Can we rid sports of performance enhancing drugs?
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On Sept. 3, 2003, federal agents raided BALCO, the San Francisco Bay Area Laboratory that provided performance enhancing drugs to several athletes.
Kobritz: A novel proposal to save baseball
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A pair of academics have proposed a radical change to save baseball which is guaranteed to make traditionalists apoplectic.
Kobritz: Assault on the diamond, pitchers who throw at batters are ‘cowards’
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Headhunting in baseball is a euphemism to describe the actions of a pitcher who intentionally throws at a batter’s head. In any other setting we would simply describe the practice as assault.
Kobritz: Athletes and social media, a toxic brew
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What do Josh Hader of the Milwaukee Brewers, Trea Turner of the Washington Nationals, Sean Newcomb of the Atlanta Braves, and Sonny Gray of the Yankees have in common?
Kobritz: Brian France should do the right thing for NASCAR
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Brian France, CEO of NASCAR, announced he was taking an “indefinite” leave of absence to address his “problems” after he was arrested last weekend in Sag Harbor, New York, for aggravated DWI. He would be doing all of NASCAR Nation a great service if he made his leave permanent.
Kobritz: Urban Meyer saga won’t end well, for someone
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Winning in college sports is highly valued, no more so than in football. That’s why elite coaches, who are integral to the success of a program, are paid such astronomical salaries.
Kobritz: The mental game of baseball
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Yogi Berra once said, “Ninety percent of the game is half mental.” Berra, one of the most quotable baseball players of all time, was credited with innumerable sayings, some of which he never said.
Kobritz: Parents behaving like, well, their children
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Earlier this month, parents of two 12-and-under girls softball teams participating in a USA Softball tournament in Kingsport, Tennessee, got into a shouting match when the parents of players on one team thought the umpire was favoring the opponent.
Kobritz: Baseball needs to address its declining attendance
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As MLB takes a break from the regular season to play the 89th All-Star Game, one of the hot topics this year has been attendance, or rather, the lack of it. According to Baseball-Reference, overall league attendance is down over 2.5 million this year, with 22 of 30 clubs showing a decline from 2017 numbers.
