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Art Spander
As a reporter since 1960, Art Spander is a living treasure of sports history. A recipient of the Dick McCann Memorial Award -- given for his long and distinguished career covering professional football -- he has earned himself a spot in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was recently honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the PGA of America for 2009.
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Recent Articles
- Pete Carroll Cares, and Proves It - November 20, 2009
- LOS ANGELES -- The question came from the man who the past few days had been hearing too many of them. This one, however, wasn't about how to repair a humbled football...
- Belichick and Harbaugh Deserve Our Thanks - RCS - November 18, 2009
- For not bowing to public opinion, Belichick, and Harbaugh, deserve both our admiration and our thanks. Isn't the idea to be a leader, not a follower? It takes courage to...
- Belichick and Harbaugh Deserve Our Thanks - November 17, 2009
- SAN FRANCISCO - So here was Jim Harbaugh, who tried to tell us he didn't want to take chances, going for a two-point conversion with his Stanford team far ahead, being...
- Cutler Turns Over a Victory to the 49ers - RealClearSports - November 13, 2009
- SAN FRANCISCO - In the future we're destined to have pro football eight days a week. It's unavoidable, like death and taxes. Fumbles, interceptions, holding penalties by...
- Cutler Turns Over a Victory to the 49ers - November 13, 2009
- SAN FRANCISCO - In the future we're destined to have pro football eight days a week. It's unavoidable, like death and taxes. Fumbles, interceptions, holding penalties by...
- Agassi Becomes an "Open" Book - November 11, 2009
- It was the great Jim Brown, arguably the finest of running backs, who when asked from the distance of retirement to analyze his career said a person should be occupied...
- Agassi Becomes an 'Open' Book - RealClearSports - November 11, 2009
- Sports autobiographies remain puzzling. Does the subject simply want to sell books or does he or she want to sell us an idea, the climb from poverty, the escape from an...
- Harbaugh Turns Stanford Into a Winner - November 8, 2009
- STANFORD, Calif - Stanford didn't as much play football as endure it. It was a place kids went so they could get into medical school or create Google, not get into the...
- Harbaugh Turns Stanford Into a Winner - RealClearSports - November 8, 2009
- STANFORD, Calif - Stanford didn't as much play football as endure it. It was a place kids went so they could get into medical school or create Google, not get into the...
- Cable's Troubles Becoming Unacceptable - November 6, 2009
- OAKLAND - No one's ever judged this region by what might be called normal standards. The Bay Area, Northern California, was settled by Spanish missionaries, who were...
- Cable's Troubles Becoming Unacceptable - RealClearSports - November 6, 2009
- This situation with the man who coaches the Oakland Raiders has all but reached a point of unacceptability, with people who don't know exactly what happened screaming...
- Urban Meyer Teaches a Bad Lesson - RealClearSports - November 4, 2009
- They're teachers. That's how coaches describe themselves. They take pride in helping the youth of the country, instructing them in how to become better players, become...
- Urban Meyer Teaches a Bad Lesson - November 4, 2009
- They're teachers. That's how coaches describe themselves. They take pride in helping the youth of the country, instructing them in how to become better players, become...
- Baseball Defies Predictions of Doom - RealClearSports - October 30, 2009
- The game died years ago. Isn't that what we were told? Baseball was the echo of another time, men in baggy flannel standing around while the world sped past. It didn't...
- Baseball Defies Predictions of Doom - October 30, 2009
- The game died years ago. Isn't that what we were told? Baseball was the echo of another time, men in baggy flannel standing around while the world sped past. It didn't...
- McGwire Slinks Back into Baseball - RealClearSports - October 28, 2009
- He is emerging from the mist, rejoining society, rejoining baseball. Mark McGwire returns and where that could lead, dare we say Cooperstown, is yet to be determined....
- McGwire Slinks Back into Baseball - October 27, 2009
- OAKLAND - He is emerging from the mist, rejoining society, rejoining baseball. Mark McGwire returns and where that could lead, dare we say Cooperstown, is yet to be...
- For Dodgers, McCourts: It's Going to Get Ugly - October 23, 2009
- In the latest development of "This Ain't No Fantasy League, Folks,'' the guy who currently owns the Los Angeles Dodgers - and we must wait to see how long that will...
- For Dodgers, McCourts, It's Going to Get Ugly - RealClearSports - October 23, 2009
- In the latest development of "This Ain't No Fantasy League Folks,'' the guy who currently owns the Los Angeles Dodgers - and we must wait to see how long that will...
- Say Goodbye to the Freeway Series - RealClearSports - October 21, 2009
- Think of all the gas they'll save in Southern California. The kind that goes in the fuel tank, not the type C.C. Sabathia was throwing. No entertainment personalities....
- Say Goodbye to the Freeway Series - October 21, 2009
- Does this mean there's not going to be a Freeway World Series? Think of all the gas they'll save in Southern California. The kind that goes in the fuel tank, not the...
- No Forgetting the Earthquake World Series - RealClearSports - October 16, 2009
- Twenty years ago, Oct. 17, 1989. 5:04 p.m. PDT, Athletics vs. Giants, Game 3 of the Bay Bridge World Series, a festive time that in an instant would become a tragic...
- No Forgetting the Earthquake World Series - October 16, 2009
- SAN FRANCISCO - Twenty years ago, Oct. 17, 1989. 5:04 p.m. PDT, Athletics vs. Giants, Game 3 of the Bay Bridge World Series, a festive time that in an instant would...
- Wooden Wins a Big One, No. 99 - October 14, 2009
- He couldn't win the big one. That was the criticism of John Wooden. Fifty years ago. Times change. Perceptions change. Integrity never changes. Couldn't win the big...
- Wooden Wins a Big One, No. 99 - RealClearSports - October 14, 2009
- The great man, the "Wizard of Westwood'' - a phrase Wooden still dislikes; it came from the title of a book by Dwight Chapin and the late Jeff Prugh - turns 99 today,...
- Presidents Cup No Different, All About Tiger - RCS - October 9, 2009
- his is a team event. This is when golf makes it "us'' against "them,'' country against country, or more specifically in the Presidents Cup, one country, the United...
- Tiger Is a Majority of One - October 9, 2009
- SAN FRANCISCO - This is a team event. This is when golf makes it "us'' against "them,'' country against country, or more specifically in the Presidents Cup, one country,...
- Favre's Too Old? Too Spectacular - October 7, 2009
- So do you still think Brett Favre should have retired? Not a bad evening for the man. Too old? Too spectacular. We worry more about others more than about ourselves....
- Favre's Too Old? Too Spectacular - RealClearSports - October 7, 2009
- So do you still think Brett Favre should have retired? Not a bad evening for the man. Too old? Too spectacular. We worry more about...
- USC Not Done with Pac-10 Yet - Los Angeles Daily News - October 4, 2009
- There's your answer: USC. Next question. This wasn't a game, it was a reminder. When the Trojans put their minds to it, they also put an end to it. They certainly put an...
- A Good Man Takes His Leave - October 2, 2009
- SAN FRANCISCO - He came to the plate in the second inning, the beginning of the end as it were, and the fans at the San Francisco Giants final home of 2009, Rich...
- Giants Classy Aurilia Takes His Leave - RealClearSports - October 2, 2009
- SAN FRANCISCO - He came to the plate in the second inning, the beginning of the end as it were, and the fans at the San Francisco Giants final home of 2009, Rich...
- With Raiders, Nothing Ever Changes - RealClearSports - September 30, 2009
- The coach said he is to blame. "To me this is on Tom Cable,'' explained Tom Cable. No less is it on Al Davis, the man who hired Cable. Al Davis who repeatedly has...
- With Raiders, Nothing Ever Changes - September 29, 2009
- OAKLAND -- The coach said he is to blame. "To me this is on Tom Cable,'' explained Tom Cable. No less is it on Al Davis, the man who hired Cable. Al Davis who repeatedly...
- Nets New Owner a Step Towards Globalizing the Game - RCS - September 25, 2009
- Does this mean the Cold War is over? You only wish Mikhail Gorbachev still were around. He was the Soviet Premier who in a misinterpreted warning to the West - the U.S....
- Call Them the New Jersey Nyets - September 24, 2009
- Does this mean the Cold War is over? You only wish Mikhail Gorbachev still were around. He was the Soviet president who in a misinterpreted warning to the West - the...
- Kiffin and Meyer: One "Flu" Over the Cuckoo's Nest - RCS - September 23, 2009
- Meanwhile, in the "Who said college football was all respect and sportsmanship?'' sweepstakes, the University of Florida held six players out of practice, not so much to...
- Kiffin and Meyer: One "Flu" Over the Cuckoo's Nest - September 22, 2009
- Meanwhile, in the "Who said college football was all respect and sportsmanship?'' sweepstakes, the University of Florida held six players out of practice, not so much to...
- Rodney Harrison Won't Shut Up about Favre - September 18, 2009
- In a three-month period starting in late June, Rodney Harrison, the newly retired safety, described Brett Favre, the recently unretired quarterback, in terms ranging...
- Rodney Harrison Won't Shut Up about Favre - RCS - September 18, 2009
- In a three-month period starting in late June, Rodney Harrison, the newly retired safety, described Brett Favre, the recently unretired quarterback, in terms ranging...