Let’s, just for argument’s sake, say that you are the head coach of a football team that just went 11-2. Your team is coming off a season in which they won the Rose Bowl by beating Oregon 26-17. You beat five 10-win teams this season. And you have most of your key starters coming back, […]
It’s time for a little story. Once upon a time there was a football team called the Arizona Cardinals. And they weren’t any good at all. The players were virtually unwatchable. The ownership was about as motivated as a teenager with homework. The stands were empty; a mixture of shiny gold colored metal and drab […]
It was literally the perfect metaphor. On Sunday, my wife (code name: Decision Maker) was standing at the counter preparing to light the candles on my 40th birthday pie but I wouldn’t let her. Not until the Suns/Thunder game ended. Frustrated, the DM sighed and put the pie back in the fridge. I know what […]
I never saw the late Duke Snider play, but I knew all about him. Same for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Al Kaline, Jackie Robinson, Stan Musial, Hank Greenberg and so many of the all-time great baseball players. I caught the tail end of Willie Mays’ career when he was with the Mets and […]
This is supposed to be a sports column. Something about the Suns trade, the upcoming NFL draft, the Coyotes recent win streak or the Diamondbacks upcoming season. But I don’t want to write about sports. Over the weekend sports took a backseat to almost everything in my life. Even my kids soccer games on Saturday […]
D-backs President and CEO Derrick Hall remains bullish on the future of the Arizona Diamondbacks. “Do I think we can contend?” Hall responded “Yeah, I do.” A wonderful and ambitious thought for certain. One that is roughly similar to the dieter who thinks they’re going to shed 20 pounds in seven days. Or the guy […]
He was and always will be my favorite Suns player of all-time. Thursday night when he returned to the U.S. Airways Center, a place he once called home for nine years, it was a blast from the past. It brought back so many good memories for me of the man they called the Matrix. Granted, […]
It’s not that I don’t like Mexican food. It’s just that every time The Decision-Maker asks where we should eat out, it never really comes up. It’s always the pizza place down the street, the sushi restaurant at the mall, or the burger joint across the way. We rarely pick Mexican and when we do […]
Kirk Gibson wasn’t happy with me, and that my friends, is a precarious position to be in. Moments earlier he had just used the word “insane” to describe himself as a player. He’s got hands the size of frying pans and a look in his eyes that indicate if he were so inclined, he could […]
John Lennon once wrote “Give Peace a Chance.” That was in 1969. Now, 42 years later, I write give Babby and Blanks a chance. I’m not sure how the lyrics would go if I turned it into a song. Maybe something like ‘Everybody’s talking about Gortat, Dowdell, Dudley, Orlando’s first-round pick and all we are […]
I’ve never been afraid to expose my dorkdum so I’m not going to stop now. I have a rule: I never, ever add a movie to my Top 10 All-Time List until a mandatory waiting period of two years. That way when I walk out of, let’s say “Inception”, I ignore the instant reaction to […]
The scariest movie I ever saw was the original Alien. I went fetal for four days after I saw that flick. Especially the part – all together now – where the alien bursts out of John Hurt’s stomach. I’ve seen that movie a hundred times since. Of course I know what’s coming, but that belly […]
News moves fast in the social media world. It didn’t take long after I mentioned on air Thursday that I thought Ben Roethlisberger was a better quarterback than Kurt Warner before Warner himself was getting tweets about it and responding on Twitter that he wants a chance to come on the show and defend himself. […]
You’d never know it by the fact that today was the coldest day Phoenix has seen in 25 years, or that some weather channel anchor went berserk over “thunder-snow”, or that the Super Bowl host city might be subject to rolling blackouts to deal with all the power demands due to the cold. Punxsutawney Phil […]
If it happens again, the Suns should make January 28th an official organizational holiday. They could call it “Turnaround Day” or “New Season’s Eve” or something hokey like that. I haven’t put a ton of thought into what to call it; I’m not terribly convinced I’ll need to. Odds are I have a better chance […]
Interesting article on ProFootballTalk.com Thursday in regards to the Pittsburgh Steelers playing a game in Ireland next season. Interesting because it says the Arizona Cardinals could be a prime candidate to sacrifice a home game and be the Steelers opponent. The article even says the Cardinals “are in a down cycle and who could be […]
I am a child of divorce. It’s not a statement meant to elicit any sympathy; I’m sure many of you reading this grew up with divorced parents or are divorced yourselves or perhaps both. Hey…it happens. I bring it up because some divorces, as we all know, are nasty. A ruthless, to-the-pain competition over how […]
Somewhere today, Chris “Beanie” Wells understands. He gets exactly what Jay Cutler is going through. OK. Maybe not exactly. But to have your toughness questioned? Your work ethic, pain tolerance, your desire questioned? Yeah, the Cardinals running back has been there. The Bears quarterback suffered some kind of a knee injury in the NFC Championship […]
What’s that old saying? If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. I think that’s it. That is truly the motto that the Arizona Cardinals should take when it comes to the 2011 draft. Sure, drafting Matt Leinart 10th overall in 2006 didn’t work out. He didn’t become the franchise quarterback that they expected […]
Listen to Sports Interactive from noon until 2:00 every day and eventually I’ll say something I shouldn’t. I’ll call a guy by the wrong name, mispronounce a word and scramble up the verbs and nouns like they’re breakfast. So when Raiders owner Al Davis called Cam Newton…Kim Newton, or refered to Stanford coach David Shaw […]
The words “Go Green” take on a whole new meaning this weekend. I’m not asking you to recycle that plastic water bottle or buy a hybrid or take the bus. Clog up your local landfill and buy a gas guzzler for all I care. Rather, I’m talking about my motto for this weekend’s Conference Championship […]
It’s easy to suggest the Phoenix Suns trade Steve Nash. He is a two-time MVP, still plays the game at a high level and only has one year left on his contract. But the player Phoenix should seriously consider trading is Grant Hill. Both Nash and Hill are veteran players who could help a contending […]
Near the bottom of the email was the line “You are better than this Dave.” My first instinct was to wonder what I had done to make my dad so upset. Then I realized that the email was from Joe. Joe is a listener who thought I was nuts for suggesting it would be worth […]
As the old saying goes…..hindsight is 20/20. Remarkably some Suns fans can do even better than that. Some can actually look back in time and not only see things perfectly; they can see things that were never actually there to begin with. Amar’e Stoudemire made his triumphant return to Phoenix on Friday night and in […]
Just two weeks ago we sat down for the old Gambadoro family tradition of watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” right before Christmas. At one point in the classic movie the bank has called the loan on the old Building and Loan, and after paying everything they have to the bank they have no money left. […]
It happens more often than I care to admit. An impulse buy. A pair of gym shorts at Target. A new traveler coffee mug from Starbucks. And the minute I get home I realize I’ve wasted my money. Didn’t need it. Didn’t really want it. Got five just like it. I’ve never been afraid to […]
Some times in life things come exactly as advertised. When you go see TRON, you’ll get exactly what you expect. Loud. Bright. Action. No plot. Sunday’s game between two teams with rookie quarterbacks, the 4-9 Arizona Cardinals and 1-12 Carolina Panthers, came exactly as advertised. As an entertainment product, it was….uh…..lacking. A 19-12 loss that […]
That didn’t take long. Just 25 games into the season and the Phoenix Suns decided to scrap the game plan and start over. Yes the Suns clearly didn’t like what they were and at 12-13 who could blame them. So they pull off a blockbuster six-player trade with the Orlando Magic that for all intent […]
To sit here and say I knew it was coming would be a lie. But a little birdie told me weeks ago that the Cardinals were itching to bust out a Jay Feely fake field goal. That little birdie….was Jay Feely. So I sat on that little nugget, as you have to, and waited and […]
Seeing that the roof was open at University of Phoenix stadium, I couldn’t help but to think of an old Seinfeld episode. Jerry is dating a woman whose appearance changes based on the lighting. Sometimes hideous, sometimes gorgeous, he can’t figure his two-faced date out. I was hoping that the open roof and the bright […]
