Today is an embarrassment of riches for sports fans. It really is such a wonderful day to be alive. Of course, March Madness starts today. I am in four pools this year. I picked my teams kind of randomly so it’s not like I need one or two things to happen in order to come […]
I just realized something this morning. There are nly seven football games left in the season. College is done – I don’t count the all-star games. There are four NFL playoff games today, two next week, a week off, then the Super Bowl. The Pro Bowl also doesn’t count. Seven games, then nothing, nada, zip. […]
As baseball season comes to a close today, so does my fantasy baseball team’s campaign. I have played in the same league since the early 1990s, which amazes me. I finished in sixth out of 12 teams this year. That might sound pretty unremarkable, but this is my best finish since 2001 when I finished […]
If you’re hiding from Olympic results, shame on you. You’re gonna get spoiled here, and I don’t really care. If I “ruined’ the result of the soccer game today, take that as your warning to stay away from my site for the next few weeks. When I hear news, I don’t like to keep it […]
A few weeks ago, I sat in my basement, drinking a beer and watching D.C. United play. I don’t know which game it was because they have pretty much all melded into one great big ball of suck at this point. I looked at the TV and said, to no one because I was all […]
I don’t know who to blame for not letting the Buzz Bissinger-Will Leitch “debate” die. Bissinger hasn’t shut up, trying to explain over and over again that his point still stands, but he shouldn’t have been such a dick. I say, if you have to be such a dick in the first place, it kind […]
First of all, the above video (H/T Awful Announcing) is not safe for kids or an open workplace. Lots of naughty, naughty language, most of it ironically coming from the guy who has jumped on his high horse about decency. That guy is Buzz Bissinger. He won the Pulitzer Prize for the book “Friday Night […]
My neighborhood growing up got cable earlier than a lot of places. I was lucky enough to see the first day of MTV and watch ESPN when it only ran for part of the day. I also had the good fortune of having a channel called MSG. The network now exists as a regional sports […]
I remember sitting in the library in college once when Andy Salverda came up with a wonderful idea. See, Andy was pretty tall and could dunk a basketball, if I remember correctly, and he felt bad for people like me who didn’t have a chance in hell at throwing down a tomahawk slam, unless I […]
As the years have progressed, I have started to loathe sports arguments. As the shouting culture of television “analysis” has continued to “evolve,” the mere thought of debating a sports topic honestly has seemed to disappear. Everyone seems to be trying out for a spot on “Around the Horn” next to Jay Mariotti. Why anyone […]