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Hasan H @ August 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I love the fact that ESPN.com has a front page headline about the mets calling up “Top” prospect Jonathan Niese. Bringing up the kids like Daniel Murphy and Niese on a first place team in the middle of a pennant race is a big middle finger to all GMs around the league who refused to trade […]
Obiora @ August 1, 2008 # 2 Comments
Maintaining loyalty in the face of extreme losing
It is a cruel irony that the man most responsible for establishing the Fall Classic was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on the same day that has for the greater part of 16 years signaled the unofficial end of baseball season here in Western PA, the […]
Obiora @ July 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
- With a new college football season coming, I can just hear the griping about to start - the polls are biased against this team, the voters don’t know anything, the polls favor that team, we need a playoff, we need a playoff, we need a playoff. Like most folks, I too would favor […]
Obiora @ July 27, 2008 # 2 Comments
As we wade through this summer’s transfer market, I am reminded that financial structure is one of the most glaring contrasts between the sports leagues of the USA and the domestic soccer leagues of the ‘rest of the world’. By and large, the big American sports franchises (with some exceptions like the NY Yankees) try […]
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?
Obiora @ July 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Brandon Jennings, considered the best high school basketball player in the country this past season, will be taking his game to Europe next season because he didn’t ‘pass’ the SATs and so can’t play the requisite one year in college. This move has touched off a lot of speculation about whether American high schoolers […]
SK @ July 10, 2008 # 3 Comments
It’s been a few days since the legal system finally caved in and gave Clay Bennett and company the permission to leave Seattle without professional basketball. I have to believe that it doesn’t hurt any less. The last court the Sonics played in was, unfortunately, a legal court and not a basketball court.
For me, the memory […]
Obiora @ July 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Recently, FIFA agreed in principle that Sepp Blatter’s proposed “6+5″ limitation on domestic futbol clubs was a good idea. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, the rule would provide that a club team must start a match with at least six players who would be eligible to play for the national […]
Obiora @ July 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A few thoughts on Euro 2008:
If you missed Euro 2008, you missed one of the best sports tournaments in recent memory. Watching Fernando Torres score the winner against Germany was especially gratifying for this fan given the criticism leveled at El Niño for not finding the back of the net much during the rest […]
SK @ June 26, 2008 # 3 Comments
If you’ve spoken to a soccer fan this month, chances are they’ve been engrossed in the UEFA Euro 2008 tournament, which will determine European soccer bragging rights for the next four years. And if you haven’t been following, Sunday’s final will pit Germany against the winner of today’s semifinal match between Russia and Spain.
Perennial powerhouse France […]
SK @ June 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
We lost a legend this week. Not surprisingly, my favorite rant of his involves sports. Enjoy:
“Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game.
Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.
Baseball is played on a diamond, in a park.The baseball park!
Football is played on a gridiron, in a stadium, sometimes called Soldier Field or War Memorial Stadium.
Baseball begins in the […]
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.
SK @ June 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Before this season, the Boston Celtics were an afterthought in the NBA. It had been 21 years since they last hoisted the Larry O’Brien trophy. In between, the Chicago Bulls won 6 titles, the LA Lakers won 5, and the San Antonio Spurs won 4. Lenny Bias and Reggie Lewis, hailed as potential saviors of […]
Hasan H @ June 17, 2008 # One Comment
True to form, the Mets bungled another high profile situation and fired Manager Willie Randolph in the middle of the night, against my wishes, of course. I felt that he deserved a dignified exit and he didn’t get it.
Around $50 million of this $140 million Mets team has either been on the DL for significant lengths of time […]
Obiora @ June 5, 2008 # One Comment
In the wake of the Penguins Stanley Cup Finals loss to the Detroit Red Wings, I am reminded of Dan Marino. In 1984, the sophomore signal caller of the Miami Dolphins burst onto the NFL scene, throwing for over 5,000 yards (still an NFL record) and 48 touchdowns (a record that stood for 20 […]