Sitting here watching the Suns and the Spurs play in the final game of the regular season and I’m wondering where it all went wrong. How, why, when did it go wrong? One of my favorite U2 songs is “Moment of Surrender” off the No Line on the Horizon album. When was the Suns Moment […]
I found that the only time I was entertained by the HBO show “Entourage” was when the Jeremy Piven character, Ari, was on screen. When he’s in front of me, I’m engaged. When he’s not, I’m not. I feel exactly the same way about Tiger Woods and golf, and I hardly think I’m alone. So […]
Some things in life are so simple you hardly need to think about them. Instinct takes over. When you’re tired, you sleep. Thirsty, you drink. When you’re driving cross country and need something mellow to listen to, you pick Springsteen’s Tunnel of Love. When you’re hung-over, you eat In-N-Out Burger. Want to turn off your […]
I guess I’m rooting for Butler. I guess. I don’t want to paint myself as an anti-Cinderella elitist. Anti-Cinderella this time of year is like anti-presents around Christmas. Anti-turkey around Thanksgiving. Anti-chocolate bunnies…. You get the point. As the very Cinderella Butler Bulldogs — having just dispatched of the very, very Cinderella VCU Rams — […]
In what can only be described as some bizarro-psychological experiment, two baseball fans have been chosen to watch and document every single baseball game this season. They’ll show up to work in a 15,000 square foot, glass enclosed “fancave” that will be visible to people walking by on the street in New York City. Inside […]
It happens in Hollywood all the time. An once great actor bumbles and stumbles their way through bad movie after bad movie, falls further and further off the public’s radar screen, and just when you think they’re never going to matter ever again…… Bang. John Travolta stars in Pulp Fiction. Follow @Tyler_Bassett
I love hypothetical conversations. Who would win in a battle between Batman and Superman? Who is the bigger bad ass, Chuck Norris or Jack Bauer? What Hollywood hottie could walk through those doors right now that your wife would give you the “hall pass” for? Silly bar room conversations that have absolutely zero foundation in […]
In what has become a rite of spring for most Diamondbacks fans, news of Brandon Webb’s shoulder is not good. Fortunately for D-backs fans, Webb is no longer a member of the D-backs. He’s on the Rangers. According to a report by nbcsports.com, Webb had to be shutdown….again….with lingering shoulder problems. Stop me if you’ve […]
Amar’e Stoudemire left the bench and Suns fans lost their minds. But in the race to play the blame game, everybody (well…just about everybody) forgot to blame the real culprit: Amar’e Stoudemire. Don’t worry. I’m not here to tear open old wounds. Just using Stoudemire’s ill fated decision as an example that sometimes the simple […]
It’s 8:34 on the Wednesday night before the NCAA Tournament and it’s time. Time to enter the Madness. I feel like Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now, getting ready to head up the river in search of Colonel Kurtz. But instead of Marlon Brando, I will find Bill Self lamenting the horror…the horror. The following is […]
I hope you treated the day with the proper reverence and respect. Paid tribute to Jimmy V and Phi Slamma Jamma. Laughed at the memory of a timeout that didn’t exist. Messed up your grandpa’s perfect coifed white hair. I hope your pencils were sharpened, your pens filled with ink and your brackets at the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
