Last night, Cincinnati Reds manager, Bryan Price, performed his best Lou Piniella impression by going berserk on his beat reporters in regards to the media leaking roster information. As someone who has worked in sports media for a brief moment and also respects the game of baseball, I can see this...
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Besides the time period of mid-August till November 1st, the second best time on the sports calendar is right around the corner. No I’m not talking about baseball or the NBA playoffs, but the real athletes who sacrifice life and limb every night for Lord Stanley. The NHL playoffs are...
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Last week, ESPN broadcaster Jeff Van Gundy decided to go on a rant during a live broadcast about the current playoff format. It’s no secret the Western Conference is the crème de la crème of the NBA. Do not even start with me on trying to say, “Look who won the...
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You know that old saying “One call does not decide a game.” Well, folks, that’s a bunch of baloney because during the Final Four there were two calls that dramatically changed the game. Let me first preface that refereeing at any level is tremendously hard. I know I will never experience...
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We adore Gordon Bombay, Willie Mays Hayes and Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez, but where is the love for the bad guy in sports movies? Without these sports villains, who knows if we’d still randomly start to yell “Quack, Quack, Quack” or “Shooter!” Sports movies need villains and today I point...
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Good for you, Patrick. Good for you, MJD. In the past week we have seen two All-Pro players retire from the NFL before it was too late. Patrick Willis announced yesterday that he was calling it quits at the age of 30 on the heels of last week’s announcement that Maurice...
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Ronda Rousey could beat a man in a fight, even if that man happened to be a professional fighter. The evidence is in her observed skillset. The possibility cannot be discounted. But a mixed-gender fight should never happen because there are only negative outcomes. It should just be a contest between...
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Forget the 3,465 hits, forget the .310 average, and let’s even forget the 5 World Series rings; Derek Jeter’s on-field accolades do not come close to his off-field ones. For years, it bewildered me how I never heard about a cheating scandal or a public argument between Jeter and one...
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The gift that keeps on giving is the Qatar World Cup in 2022. It has been reported that the usual summer event will be moved to the months of November and December of that year. At first, it made ZERO sense how a country with no stadiums, hotels or infrastructure is...
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Little League Baseball announced that they are stripping the U.S. championship from the Chicago-based Jackie Robinson West team. It’s sad that this is just another moment in youth sports where a group of adults make a terrible mistake and the kids are the victims. All other victories leading up to LLWS...
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