Shortly after the Mitchell Report was released in December 2007, Jim Gullo noticed that his then 7-year-old son, Joe, was arranging his growing baseball card collection in a disturbing way: The boy made a pile for steroid abusers. The challenge Gullo faced then to reconcile his love of the game ...

At the start of April, a call went out to sports-minded GeekDads asking them to join in a new community project: a fantasy baseball league. The first assignment was to have kid franchise owners brainstorm a name and logo for the franchises. Team names in the GDS fantasy baseball league ...

Statistics are the foundation of a good fantasy league experience. While there are a number of complicated formulas that can tell us how good a player is, the trade-off for that level of precision is that the numbers become too abstract to be counted by sitting in the stands. Professor ...

My six year old daughter loves baseball (when she was three she invited Manny Ramirez to visit her school). She also loves Star Wars (which she consideres the ultimate princess movies). And she loves video games especially those that involve smashing things).

In the summer of 1985 while at at a two-week camp in Terre Haute, I met a media professor from Indiana State. He told me about a game his colleagues had been playing for a few years. It involved real NFL football players and their scores during games each season. ...

In the summer of 1985 while at at a two-week camp in Terre Haute, I met a media professor from Indiana State. He told me about a game his colleagues had been playing for a few years involving real football players and their scores in NFL games during the season. ...

In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love, according to Tennyson. By middle age, those thoughts expand to include things like baseball and cleaning the garage. For some geeks, it all coalesces into a large Rubbermaid tub filled with forgotten trading cards. While I was ...

Do your kids get an allowance?  Do they have to earn it? Money is on everyone’s mind these days and it was a spirited topic during a recent Thursday evening Tweet Chat that I host, called #DadChat**.  Tweet Chats are growing as different communities band together for an hour or ...

I have also had a great appreciation for sports. For the most part I keep my passion for all things sports on the reserved side. As a father a nice bonus is being able to impart my knowledge and share experiences with my daughter. The range o...