Catching Up Links

As the NFL season becomes a memory, an article on the increasing number of players retiring before they're 30, suggesting it's related to medical findings on the perils of concussion and other injury to a healthy life.

As the NBA gets back in gear, here's a keeper about Kobe and his last All Star game.

And as MLB spring training begins, a suggestion that takeout slides of the kind that caused the injury that pretty much doomed the Pittsburgh Pirates postseason hopes late last season, may be outlawed.

Here We Go

The Golden State Warriors chase history as the NBA season resumes after the All-Star break.

And spring training begins in MLB.  Neither the San Francisco Giants nor the Pittsburgh Pirates are expected to win their divisions--but hopes are high among their fans that this will be a great year.  For the Giants of course, it's an even-numbered year, when they're used to winning it all.