July 23, 2012
Waka Flocka Walked Adrien Broner to the Ring on Saturday
Intro by 3030fm Adrien Broner defeated Vicente Escobedo on Saturday night, by TKO in the fifth round. But technically, he knocked everyone out on his walk up to the ring (don’t forget to tip your waitress, folks). The Cincy native was accompanied to the ring by Waka Flocka, to the lilting strains of the Atlanta […]
Read moreThe Team USA Dinner Photograph and the Anthony Davis Problem
This is a picture of the USA men’s basketball team at dinner. It’s from Deron Williams’s Instagram feed. The photographer may or may not be Tyson Chandler. While there are many questions that can be raised from this photo (why is Tyson the photographer? Why is Tyson such a bad photographer? Why isn’t Tyson using […]
Read more10 Things You Need to Know About the Red-hot Oakland A’s
For those of you who are Moneyball’ed to death and thought the sun had set on the “Billy Beane as iconoclastic bad-boy genius” era, I’ve got some bad news: The Oakland A’s are the spunky, red-hot team of the moment, and after a four-game sweep of the Yankees, you should get used to hearing their […]
Read moreTales From the Summer League
The NBA’s summer league in Vegas is basically summer camp for basketball junkies. It occupies a bizarre niche in basketball fandom that’s built entirely around the idea that all dunks are equally valid and exciting, regardless of whether they’re pulled off by superstars or D-League benchwarmers-to-be. Bloggers, coaches, would-be scouts, and the occasional group of […]
Read moreThree Takeaways From Team USA’s Win Over Argentina
Team USA took a break yesterday from its string of pre-Olympics beat downs to face an Argentina team still made up mostly of players who took home Olympic gold in 2004. What looked like just another blowout quickly became a close one as the Americans struggled from the outside. The result was an 86-80 win […]
Read moreWhich Arsenal Player Enjoyed His Flight to Malaysia the Most?
Summertime, and the living for English Premier League clubs … well, it’s kind of a drag. They’re flying all over the once-green Earth, participating in lucrative summer tours of far-off lands. As I write this, Tottenham are in Los Angeles, Liverpool are somewhere between Canada and Boston, and Arsenal have just recently touched down in […]
Read moreTo Els and Back: The Return of the British Open
It was so, so tempting to churn out this recap of the Open Championship prematurely, on Saturday night, leaving blank spaces where necessary to plug in Adam Scott’s winning score for his first major victory, the one everyone had been expecting from him since he was about 19 years old. Why sit around and wait […]
Read moreAbout Last Weekend: Not-So-Great Scott
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports over the weekend. Adam Scott bogeyed the last four holes in an epic major collapse, and Ernie Els sunk a birdie putt on 18 to win the British Open by a single stroke. “Looks like I’ve got a new […]
Read moreJuly 20, 2012
How the Jays Managed to Blow a 10-Player Trade
It’s probably not a healthy habit, but it’s tough to look at baseball trades, especially deadline trades, and not immediately flip over to one detail: Who are the general managers that made them? Such is the case for Friday’s 10-player swap between the Blue Jays and Astros. Alex Anthopoulos has earned a reputation as a […]
Read moreSteve Nash Is Making Movie-Trailer Parodies
Steve Nash has been making parodies of movie trailers. Seems like a fine way to spend your summer. There is one about Batman being fat … And there is another that is a parody of The Godfather, which consists of Nash eating a lot of grapes and “imitating” Brando (and by “imitating” I mean he’s […]
Read moreThings We Found on eBay: A Tyson-Spinks T-shirt, a Steve Novak Bobblehead, and More
Simmons found more things on eBay. Some are awesome. A few aren’t. I Understand the Intrigue VINTAGE (2) 1988 TYSON VS SPINKS ONCE AND FOR ALL FIGHT T SHIRT Large ORIGINAL Even though this is the second straight week that Spinks-related gear has come up (leading me to believe a certain someone has a “Spinks […]
Read moreThe Weekend Baseball Top 10: West Coast Bias
Here are the most compelling matchups, stories, and personalities in Major League Baseball for the coming weekend. 10. Reality Cometh for One (BAL-CLE) Now for this weekend’s metaphorical boxing match between two of the luckiest teams in baseball. In one corner, we have the Baltimore Orioles — 48-44, in a really good division, with a […]
Read moreThe Future of U.S. Soccer: Homegrown Players
In the fourth in a series of posts on the future of U.S. soccer, Andrew Lewellen looks at Major League Soccer’s hotly debated Homegrown Player rule. For Part I of the series, on the recent changes in high school and youth soccer, click here. For Part II, on the 1990 World Cup’s impact on the […]
Read moreChris Paul and Tyson Chandler Play Weekend at Bernie’s With Carmelo Anthony
Even though Tyson Chandler and Chris Paul seem to be behind this dastardly deed, Kevin Love took the Instagram shot, and Kevin Durant re-tweeted the image to thousands of followers, I think we all know who is responsible here, don’t we?
Read moreBritish Open Sweater Power Rankings
It’s cold up in Lancashire. Bring a sweater. Oh! I see you already did, golf pros. As de facto ruler of this blog, I say Tiger wins, because I’m into the off-white vibe with a flash of pink. But putting aside personal and sartorial preferences, I thought I should bring some experts into the fold […]
Read moreAbout Last Night: Anyone Want a Claret Jug?
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Thursday. Australian Adam Scott tied a Royal Lytham course record with a 6-under 64 to take the first-round lead at the British Open, while Tiger Woods lurks just three shots back at -3. “I’m lurrrrrking, Adammmmm!” whispered Tiger, […]
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