t’s almost like gold, except its shininess comes from a bald head.
Whenever Michael Jordan speaks publicly, the collective basketball brain trust comes together and makes damn well sure to have a camera on him with expectations bordering on amazing. It’s cult-like and it’s no secret Jordan grants few interviews, if any, and hand picks those [...]
Man, I’ve seen this before at my high school. Before I hit varsity football, in fact my freshman year, we had won the city championship in San Francisco (my Galileo Lions over now defunct McAteer, 11 years ago) and one of my boys tapped a player on the shoulder as he was running off the [...]
I thought it would be best to do a video entry on Michael Vick and the Philadelphia Eagles because I haven’t done one in a long time. I guess a lot of my reaction is to this ESPN story, which provides some solid details of my argument here.
irst things, first. I am a fan. I will not lie to you, dear reader. I’ve supported Terrell Owens through all of the craziness. And I will submit to you that I believe Terrell Owens’ storyline has been written mostly by those that view him as the worst person ever. He never had a shot [...]
I posted quite a few things on Twitter/Facebook in the beginning of the all-star game. Most of them observations on how things were going down in the leadup to the game.
I did not realize until actual game time that President Barack Obama would actually be throwing out the first pitch. (Call it my ignorance, but [...]
13May09
For the love of the game
There is an afterlife.
I swear to you, I’ve seen it.
It’s only visible on weekends, but it’s alive and kicking. Drive down Interstate 80 and you can catch a glimpse for yourself as former football stars are hitting, tackling and generally skipping around football fields as giddy as can be.
Finding the football afterlife was by happenstance. [...]
Bill Simmons, one of my favorite writers, has always been hesitant to give bloggers credit where credit is due. Although he did go to bat for the genre against ESPN colleague Rick Reilly in a podcast. In his latest magazine piece online today, he breaks down his thoughts on why athletes are cutting out the [...]
13Nov08
Michael Jordan loses in a 1-on-1
One of the funnier videos I’ve seen in a while on that unintentional comedy scale. It even has Damon Wayans in it.
