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Little SK @ July 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Hey NFL fans, Gossip Girl here, and I have the biggest news ever! One of my many sources sends me this, Spotted in Mississippi, Brett F frantically texting his former BFF Ted that he wants back in the Pack! But Ted’s on vacation! Will he get Brett’s desperate message? Or will he move on with Brett’s frenemy Aaron?
Little SK @ June 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
There IS another guy who has been with the same franchise for 10 years, and had a chance to lead that team to a championship, and he was ironically picked right before Pierce (and immediately traded for Robert “Tractor” Traylor and his bag of Funyuns). Unfortunately, Dirk Nowitzki’s story hasn’t ended as happily…yet.
Little SK @ June 2, 2008 # 2 Comments
The best part my foray into Fantasy Baseball is how completely liberating and therapeutic the pursuit of a purely monetary goal can be. The emotional side of being a sports fan is fatiguing. Real baseball fans may moan and groan about “wins” and “rivalries” and “curses” (I know this, I live two blocks from Wrigley Field). But I straight up don’t give a shit.
Little SK @ May 7, 2008 # 2 Comments
I have a confession.
Before the Mavs current run of postseason appearances, I made it an annual tradition to pick a playoff team to support. I would shamelessly leap onto their bandwagon in April, and just as shamelessly jump off in June.
This year, I’m reviving the tradition and my pick (drum roll please…) is Chris “The Real MVP” Paul and the 2008 New Orleans Hornets! (Can they switch names with the Jazz already?)
I know you’re probably filled with questions, but just hear me out (and save your not-so-righteous indignation for later).
Little SK @ May 1, 2008 # 4 Comments
It’s one thing to root for a bad team with no talent. It’s another thing to root for a team with no heart. A team that tantalizes you with its potential, and just when your hopes are at their highest, they devastate you with a wimpy, unfocused, joyless series.
The second half of Game 4 was one of the only times in my life that I felt ashamed to be rooting for the Mavs. Not to put too fine a point on it, but I felt humiliated.
Little SK @ April 27, 2008 # 2 Comments
For someone who once described to Charles Barkley that on his first day of kindergarten, he was tied to tree and had nigger spray painted on him, shouldn’t Tiger have insights about race in America to share with us? His role as a corporate endorser means he can wield considerable influence. But is that influence enough to affect what we say and think about minorities?
Little SK @ April 21, 2008 # One Comment
If you clicked on ESPN.com, SI.com, or any other mainstream sports site during the last couple of days, you probably missed the announcement that Steve McNair is retiring.
What a shame.
Little SK @ April 12, 2008 # One Comment
Around the time that UCLA was squeaking by Texas A&M in the tourney by a score of 51-49 the Western Conference began the most competitive playoff push ever. The stakes have been higher and the teams have been playing with more urgency than I’ve ever seen before in any sport. Every game is like a game 7 and we’re about to wrap it up by throwing the best eight teams into the Octagon to see who comes out with least amount of blood on them. Let the games begin.
Little SK @ March 28, 2008 # One Comment
The NBA has overturned Mark Cuban’s ban on bloggers in the Dallas Mavericks locker room.
Cuban is still sort of sticking to his guns, though. He has said he will credential any blogger that applies, from “…someone on blogspot who has been posting for a couple weeks,” to “kids blogging for their middle school Web site…”.
Little SK @ March 13, 2008 # 3 Comments
On Monday, Mark Cuban, the owner of my beloved Mavericks, banned bloggers from the Dallas locker room.
There’s substantial gray area about the role of blogs when it comes to covering sports, or even news in general. What makes a blogger a blogger?
Little SK @ February 17, 2008 # 9 Comments
In the dunk contest, you KNOW something sick is gonna go down, you just don’t know what. There’s really nothing like the build up and then the finality of a dunk. One man, one ball, one rim, how high can you go, how hard can you stuff.
The buzz was back about the dunk contest this year, and in that spirit, I’ll be bringing you my thoughts on All Star Saturday (the dunk contest comes after the Three Point shootout, the Skills Challenge, and something called the Shooting Stars competition) in a pseudo live blog.
Little SK @ February 14, 2008 # 3 Comments
It’s one thing to trade youth for toughness and experience, it’s another to potentially mortgage the next five years for a marginally greater chance at a championship.
Since the arrival of Avery Johnson two and a half years ago, Mark Cuban stopped tinkering with the roster, went the Spurs’ route and came about as close as you can come to winning it all. Find a core, build chemistry and work your system. The Spurs have stuck with their method for years, aren’t the Mavs giving up too early?