Ray McNulty

McNulty: What's become of Jackie Robinson's legacy?

VERO BEACH, Fla. -- The numbers from opening day 2012 aren't yet available, so we don't know if the trend is continuing.

We don't know if the percentage of American blacks playing Major League Baseball continues to dwindle, wallowing at a single-digit level that concerns the suits running the game.

McNulty: When did every mistake become fatal?

When, exactly, did we get here?

When did America arrive at a place where every wrong choice of words, every poorly expressed thought that someone else finds offensive must result in somebody losing their livelihood?

McNulty: John Lloyd reflects on tennis' different eras

VERO BEACH, Fla. -- Given their shared tennis burden, John Lloyd and Andy Murray ought to have one of those special, cross-generational relationships often spawned by sports.

They don't.

"Our relationship," Lloyd was saying Tuesday night at the Grand Harbor clubhouse, where he was guest speaker at the Indian River Tennis Foundation's kickoff party, "is slightly strained."

McNulty: Danica Patrick's at Daytona so there's no point

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- There's no point in arguing whether Danica Patrick deserves to be here, or whining about how her team owner bought her way onto the track, or ripping her for using her marketing magic to get to the Super Bowl of her sport.

She's here.

She's in.

McNulty: Are Angels paying big bucks for small returns?

The St. Louis Cardinals got the best 11 years of Albert Pujols' baseball life.

What are the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim getting for the $254 million they'll pay him across the next 10 years?

Remember: He's 31 years old -- as far as we know, anyway. And with Major League Baseball now testing for steroids and human growth hormone, it's unlikely we'll see players, even future Hall of Fame hitters such as Pujols, putting up monster numbers in their mid to late 30s, as Barry Bonds did a decade ago. His numbers will fall, eventually. His production will wane. His value will diminish. Probably, he gives the Angels three $25 million seasons. At best, he gives them four or five. That might be enough to bring another World Series to the Disneyland side of Los Angeles.

McNulty: Tebow's success is temporary unless he changes

Even those of us rooting hard for Tim Tebow -- because we want to see a young man of his character and conviction succeed on such a grand stage -- know this can't last.

We know why NFL teams don't run the spread-option offense in which Tebow excelled at Florida. We know this is a gimmick.

And we know that, though these gimmicks catch opponents off-guard and can work for a while, defenses eventually figure out how to stop them.

That will happen to the Denver Broncos, too.

That's why Tebow, unless he drastically improves his

McNulty: Another LSU-Alabama matchup? No thanks

No touchdowns.

Four interceptions.

Four botched field goals.

Greg Norman disses Tiger Woods repeatedly

Let there be no doubt: Tiger Woods hears what Greg Norman is saying.

But can he do anything about it? Does he still have enough game, enough fight, enough champion's pride to make Norman choke on his words?

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McNulty: Tiger needs to get back on course

The big golf news this week came out of Jupiter Island, where Tiger Woods announced on his website that he might add another PGA Tour event to his 2011 schedule.

"Right now," he said, "I'm looking at my options."

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McNulty: Jackie Robinson's baseball legacy fading

VERO BEACH, Fla. -- Earlier this season, New York Yankees outfielder Curtis Granderson stood on the top step of the visitors' dugout at Rangers Ballpark in Texas and offered a challenge.

"Count the number of African-American people here at the stadium who aren't working at the stadium," Granderson said to a Fort Worth Star-Telegram reporter, "and see if you can get to 10."

McNulty: Firing Williams begins new stage of Tiger's career

STUART, Fla. -- Where was Tiger Woods when the headline-grabbing news broke that the world's most-recognized golfer had fired his longtime caddie? Right here.

Here on the Treasure Coast's Intracoastal Waterway.

On his 61-foot, sport-fishing boat with his two children, heading south toward the Jupiter Inlet, waiting for a drawbridge to open.

McNulty: Howard may pull disappearing act on Magic

It's possible, I suppose, that circumstances could change.

Maybe the NBA's new collective bargaining agreement -- whenever the current players-versus-owners labor dispute is settled -- will drastically alter the landscape and limit the options for soon-to-be free agents.

McNulty: Tiger no longer bigger than the game

Even after everything that has happened the past couple of years -- on and off the golf course -- Tiger Woods remains the world's most recognizable athlete.

He still brings in huge TV ratings, which bring in sponsors, who bring in the piles of cash that have made the PGA Tour a millionaires' club.

When he's on the leaderboard, especially at major championships, he still brings in the casual fan that otherwise has little interest in the sport.

McNulty: Balanced schedule key to any MLB realignment

If the suits running Major League Baseball are serious about realignment and making changes to correct the obvious inequities in the game, they need to take a hard look at the plight of the Tampa Bay Rays.

Why? The Rays have never won the American League wild card.

McNulty: Take the money and vacate the BCS championship

Since the sainted men serving on the Bowl Championship Series' Presidential Oversight Committee are so concerned with doing what's right, I've got only one question: When do they give back the money?

For the tickets? And the travel? And the memorabilia?

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