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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Paul Calvisi is wrong. My co-host on Sports Interactive likes to say “it can always get worse.” Against their division rival, in a game that both teams have pointed to since August, on the second biggest stage in the sport, the Arizona Cardinals laid down and had their tummies scratched. I defy anyone to tell […]
On Sunday the Cardinals crossed a threshold. Not the pain threshold, goodness knows they crossed that one a long time ago. No, they passed what I’ll call the “tomorrow” threshold. Today no longer matters; tomorrow is all that counts. It relegates the rest of the 2010 season to one giant audition. Who checks out? Who […]
Well that just about takes care of that…..doesn’t it? The Arizona Cardinals have been hobbling around for most of the season, resting the weight of their playoff hopes on two crutches; the dreadful NFC West and their heaven sent schedule. Sunday, both gave out and the Cards collapsed in a heap. In a game that […]
The Cardinals won the turnover battle, got exactly the kind of steady performance that we’ve been waiting for out of a starting quarterback and had a two touchdown lead with four minutes and 39 seconds left in the game. And they still lost. Their star wide receiver had his first 100 yard game of the […]
In rifling through my daughters Halloween candy, I usually settle on the 3 Musketeers bar. Why? Partly because she won’t notice they’re gone, but mostly because the wrapper screams to me 45% LESS FAT! I shouldn’t be eating any of this crap, but if I’m going to be weak, I rationalize the choice by telling […]
I keep thinking of that super-old game show, The $25,000 Pyramid. Clues: Your dad without a map….a teenager’s ipod……the passengers of Oceanic 815……the Cardinals quarterback situation. Answer: Things that are lost. That’s where the Arizona Cardinals are when it comes to their quarterback dilemma. Lost. True story…..An anonymous manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks grew so […]
Watching the Suns opener the other night and it occurred to me that Suns basketball is like a rock concert. And I don’t mean that in a good way. Let me clarify; Phoenix Suns basketball is like the end of a rock concert. We’ve all been to the rock concert. At the end, the band […]
Max or Derek? It’s like going to the movies only to find everything is sold out except for 3D Jackass and Life As We Know It. A vegan at a steakhouse has better choices. It’s a quarterback league and right now the Cardinals don’t have one. The excuse-makers will come out in force following the […]
Every now and then you have to go macro. Zoom out. Big picture. If you’re a Cardinals fan who has decided that Max Hall is football’s version of penicillin, let me pose this question to you: If 49ers Mike Singletary decided to start an undrafted rookie at quarterback, how would you react? You’d laugh, that’s […]
The messenger was right on target. So was the message itself. The venue? That’s where it all went wrong for Beanie Wells. On Monday, the Cards second year running back officially waded into waters that had typically been reserved for Matt Leinart. He professed confusion about his role and a strong desire to get more […]
I understand what sells. What moves the meter. What gets people talking. Ben Affleck’s latest movie “The Town” isn’t a hit because of the subtly good performances, the symbolism, plot twists or anything like that. It’s a hit because it’s got action, guns and pretty people. The fact it has all those other things is […]
In an effort to give everything a conveniently catchy label, we in the media will often attach nicknames to certain games or moments. It’s a Statement Game. Seperation Saturday. A Turning Point Game. I even heard somebody once describe a game as a GPS game (a game to determine exactly where that team is “located” […]
It’s not that I want to be trendy, I just want to make sure I’m not missing out. So I’ve tried the bands Arcade Fire and The National. TV shows like Mad Men and The Wire. The book The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Just give them a chance everybody says, they’ll change your life. […]
My son spent the weekend playing in a baseball tournament where, from time to time, the mercy-rule is used to save time and spare embarrassment. Up by 10 runs after four innings, or eight runs after five, and the game is over. On Saturday his team was run-ruled, on Sunday it was the Arizona Cardinals […]
It’s the reason they don’t put diving boards in the shallow end of the pool. Or why they remind you on your rear view mirrors that “Objects are closer than they appear.” Depth perception can be a tricky thing. Very deceiving. Just ask the Arizona Cardinals. When it comes to the wide receiver position, they […]
On Sunday my daughter celebrated a birthday. Six years from right now she’ll want, or maybe more appropriately, expect a car. If the grades are great, she is tattoo-free and she’s dating a boy from my pre-approved list….she’ll get one. But I better not hear any complaints about the color, make or model. Don’t like […]
3:45 press conference? Did he get traded? Did he get cut? Did the Arizona Cardinals just pull the trigger on the Matt Leinart era? You should have seen the starched shirts spring into action on Wednesday here at Sports 620 KTAR. Alert the reporters, have the web team standing by, deploy the talk show hosts, […]
The most significant development in the Cardinals search for their 2010 starting quarterback came not from anything Matt Leinart or Derek Anderson did on the field. It came from what the 2009 quarterback, Kurt Warner, tweeted off of the field: @kurt13warner OK, y’all… I am watching game… I am not coming back… and I would […]
