Americans are as likely to embrace soccer as Peter Pan is to pimp out Tinker Bell
Reilly goes Sister Act and accepts no fun and games in sports!
Der Fuhrer is none too pleased with Goodell
Ugh…
That’s the number one sentiment you take from Las Vegas after six nights. If you’re planning a trip to Sin City for the future make it three nights or less and on a weekend. Just a little advice. I won’t go anymore into it than that.
What was kind of surreal is that upon leaving a [...]
Well, the ESPN Editor staff (of one)–sorry, couldn’t resist that Marc Stein jab–will be taking a one week hiatus starting on Monday. I’m not sure whether or not I’ll be able to do any writing, or much reading for that matter, while I’m away so just letting everyone know that it isn’t from lack of [...]
Well, it had to happen at some point. Someone from ESPN had to eventually write an article where they didn’t put words into athletes’ mouths to prove their points or make broad generalizations with no evidence to support their claims whatsoever.
Jeffri Chadiha wrote a stellar article on Plaxico Burress and his impact on the diva [...]
Yeah, I think you have.
That’s how Scoop Jackson ended his latest article that can be found here. He writes about Usain Bolt and the culture of suspicion that PED’s have created and which envelopes all major, record-breaking athletes.
It wasn’t so much how Scoop ended the article as how he started it that got my attention.
He [...]
Gene Woj… Wojcie…Wojchow… Wojchi…
Well, however the fuck you spell his last name, he wrote an article on Tiger Woods’ stunning defeat to Y.E. Yang in the final round of the PGA Championship this past Sunday that can be found here.
The article’s title “Is Tiger’s reign over? Absolutely not” immediately indicates that it will have a [...]
It is coming…
The Michael Vick Comeback Saga has officially started. Vick has signed with the Philadelphia Eagles after being absent from the football scene since 2006.
Strap in because everyone, including your seventy-year-old diabetic grandmother, will have weighed in on Vick and the likelihood of his success before he returns after his suspension.
The amount of soppy, [...]
How often has the media attempted to market soccer in the United States? It seems like it comes in waves.
A couple years ago, they shipped David Beckham over the pond to play for the LA Galaxy in the hope that he would attract fans to the MLS. That venture had varying levels of success depending [...]
You know what is great about watching Major League Baseball these days? Nothing.
Really, nothing. It’s tediously boring and, because of the steroids era, there are no more heroes. There are only villains.
The coverage is so mind-numbingly redundant that it’s becoming comical. Every year an “underdog” wins the World Series and every spring training another part [...]
I was going for provocative with the title. It ended up being a little overdone I know. The real question is, does ESPN sports writer Scoop Jackson know he’s turning himself into a caricature or, perhaps more to the point, is he doing it on purpose?
Maybe ESPN tells its writers to aim for a role. [...]
Just over two weeks ago I wrote a column wondering whether Rick Reilly did anything but sob pieces anymore. I should have been careful what I wished for.
He pulled a Gollum from Lord of the Rings and transformed himself from the weeping bitch of Samwise Gamgee to the crazed, “give me that ring Frodo you [...]
