Aaron Hernandez has been charged with murder. Normally, when a story like this breaks, a team announces “let’s allow the judicial process to play itself out before we jump to any conclusions.” But not the New England Patriots. Not two hours after a cuffed Hernandez was led from his home to the squad car, before […]
Once upon a time in a land far, far away, high school basketball prospects went to college to get an education. Gas cost six cents per gallon, dragons terrorized the skies, and yes even the best teenage ballplayers in America committed to four years of campus life. Then, in 1970, a usurper named Spencer Haywood, […]
As you’re watching or listening to the Diamondbacks-Nationals series this week and the story of Washington’s struggles in 2013 begins to sound like a familiar tale but you just can’t figure out where you’ve heard it before, let me help you out. It’s the same story of 2012 Arizona Diamondbacks. The Nats and D-backs have […]
Gone are the days of three and four-year college stars whose games we’ve watched develop over the years until we, as basketball fans, felt we had a good idea as to whether they projected as NBA stars or certain busts. Oh yes, times have certainly changed. This year, with the number one overall pick, the […]
Another NBA season has come and gone. The Miami Heat are back-to-back world champs, following a seven-game NBA Finals victory over the San Antonio Spurs. The city of San Antonio, which is as passionate as any fan base in the NBA, begins the long road toward accepting that their Spurs treated them to another great […]
The NBA Finals went the full seven games, but this wasn’t the best Finals we’ve ever seen — far from it. Four of the games ended in blowouts, and it wasn’t until Game 6 that the series truly hit its stride. There was also a large amount of misstatements, misconceptions and misperceptions that were tossed […]
The hot seat. Sports fans are very familiar with the term, and the use of it is typically associated with head coaches. But as it turns out, the hottest seats in sports don’t exist beneath the rumps of coaches, not even those in the volatile coach-killer league known as the NBA. Since the start of […]
Grim news for Diamondbacks starter Daniel Hudson. He’s undergone a second Tommy John surgery. The list of pitchers who’ve made successful recoveries from two Tommy Johns is short, and D-backs fans can’t help but wonder if Hudson’s career is over, when not long ago it looked so promising. Daniel Hudson may have never reached greatness […]
Every year Major League Baseball contends with heavy criticism over how the rosters are selected for the All-Star Game. Personally, I take issue with how the reserves are selected, but I’ve always defended the league over the main two points of contention. I do believe every Major League team should be represented at the Fall […]
Another offseason. Another batch of stay or go rumors to keep the Coyotes fan up at night. More interested ownership groups, more mystery investors, more Glendale city council meetings, more cities trying to entice a move, more Goldwater Group pressure, more “wish we’d have never built the damn thing,” more hands-tied piecing together of a […]
I hate being in a position where I feel the need to defend a person or practice I’ve long criticized, but why can’t Jason Kidd be a successful NBA head coach? For years, professional sports executives, players and yes, even fans, have subscribed to the fallacy that you had to have played the game at […]
I’ve been saying it for years. Someone needs to take baseball’s “Unwritten Rules” and write them down. More than Ian Kennedy’s two pitches to the head Tuesday night or Zack Greinke’s three attempts to exact retribution against Miguel Montero, man’s individual interpretation of baseball’s old-school codes of conduct took what was nothing more than an […]
What happens when mania meets monotony? When Tim Tebow was signed by the New England Patriots on Monday it led to “Tebowmainia” in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The press and the likes were met with the ever stoic Bill Belichick, who didn’t give into the pressure of the hype and answered all Tebow questions without moving his […]
This week the Diamondbacks are in Los Angeles to face what is currently the worst team in their division but also the player creating the most buzz in all of baseball. Yasiel Puig. The 22-year old Cuban outfielder has launched 4 home runs and knocked in 10 runs during his first 7 games as a […]
