Posts by Shane Ryan
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About Last Night: Tiger Drops A Beauty
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Wednesday. Tiger Woods grew testy when questioned about former swing coach Hank Haney’s new book, refusing to answer questions but ending one interview by saying, “you’re a beauty” and “have a good day.” Which is not markedly different […]
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RG3 Watch: So … Seattle? Or Maybe Kansas City?
Where will you land, Robert III of House Griffin? That’s been the question on everyone’s minds since Rams COO Kevin “Scream-Off” Demoff announced his team would be willing to trade the no. 2 pick in the draft for the right price. They already gots Bradford, yo, and to hear them tell it, Slick Sammy works […]
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Scary in March: Indiana Hoosiers
Let me take you, for a brief moment, back to March 21, 2002. It was a Thursday, and the Duke Blue Devils were the defending national champions. That team featured the likes of Jason Williams, Carlos Boozer, Mike Dunleavy, and Chris Duhon. They’d lost Shane Battier from the championship team, but it hardly seemed to […]
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About Last Night: Don’t Mess With ‘The Collector’
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Tuesday. The man who collected Ryan Braun’s urine sample last fall said he followed the same protocol he had with hundreds of previous samples. “Okay, I’ll admit it,” he said, grinning, “I took a little sip. But come […]
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John Thompson III Schools Mike Brey
Over the past two weeks, in the sneakiest way possible, the Big East has become the best conference in the country. Again. Anytime you say a conference has “become” the best, what you’re really saying is that they’ve always been the best, and you just didn’t realize it. In lot of ways, this late epiphany […]
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About Last Night: Daytona’s Blaze of Glory
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Monday. Juan Pablo Montoya crashed into a truck carrying 200 gallons of jet kerosene at the Daytona 500 yesterday, causing a fiery explosion and sending the race into red flag conditions. Montoya walked away unscathed, and Matt Kenseth […]
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About Last Weekend: Durant Wins Bragging Rights
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports over the weekend. Kevin Durant scored 36 points in an MVP performance as the West beat the East 152-149 in the NBA All-Star Game. The game’s defensive MVP award was given to former NBA legend Bob “Dutch” Pettit.
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Do Regular-Season Titles Predict March Madness Success?
A couple weeks ago, I gave my philosophical treatise on why I think a regular-season title should be more highly valued. But philosophy is for the sheltered thinkers, and we are the salt of the earth. To become more relevant, and to lose its status as the forgotten title, conference titles in college basketball have […]
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About Last Night: Flexing His Braun
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Thursday. Ryan Braun’s 50-game suspension for violating MLB’s drug policy has been overturned on appeal. Details from the meeting are still foggy, but sources indicate that Braun demanded a trial by combat, and got all hyped up on […]
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Irish Guys Are Compiling (Wins)
Sweet headline, right? About 5 percent clever, 95 percent annoying? Felt appropriate for a blog post about Notre Dame. Dare I say … ZING? (And dare I say … alienating the target demographic?) Let me put on my Seinfeld cap on for a moment ($3.99, J.C. Penney’s online bargain bin) and ask an important question […]