I hate that this post was delayed. I had been working all day to have it ready. Pepperidge Farm had other plans. I don’t know if I got a hold of bad sausage or if someone surgically implanted a miniature turbine engine in my intestine. Either way, I was not up for spitting a hot […]
Category: sports
JoePa
It’s just an impossible thing that one of the most revered figures in college football would essentially lose it all in the wake of a child abuse scandal and possible cover-up and then die of cancer within months. It’s a sad day for everyone. Although he made what was likely a severe, severe mistake in […]
5280 Feet
I tried to delay this topic. Actually, that’s not true at all. I was never going to address it. Didn’t even feel any real pressure to. I had a couple folks ask me about him on Twitter but wasn’t inspired. And, that’s not because I don’t cover sports or am somehow above a cheap human […]
Homecoming
I had no plan to circle back to the Penn State story. I had mentioned it on Monday. But, the situation continues to escalate. It’s tragic on all fronts. For the victims most of all. I am typically intentional to put myself, and not just for the exercise of it, in the shoes of the […]
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
So, the St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series Friday night. The win was the capstone to one of the most improbable championships in baseball history. The Cardinals were 10.5 games out of the wild card race on August 24. The Atlanta Braves’ implosion, which permitted the Cardinals to catch them on the last day […]
Playing Soccer
The experiment of this site has been largely to write the news in song. But, one of the reasons it exists is to provide outlet for songs too niche to use anywhere else or, in some instances, to make at all. I used to have people say, “Why don’t you write a World Cup rap?” […]
2011 NFL iPreview
It’s not my fault that the Republicans debated and the POTUS presented to Congress his jobs’ plan the same week as the NFL resumed “work.” I had a choice to stay faithful to the original purpose of this site and cover the week’s politics or I could do an NFL preview and drive traffic. Go […]
2011 College Football iPreview
It’s hipper to speak well of marching bands today than maybe in time’s past but, honestly, band kids still get it sort of bad. Unless, you participate in some hot step band troupe, it’s still sort of like ehhhh. Even there, no real celebrity attaches like with their counterparts in sport. More importantly, this time […]
Like Winning
I hate it when I’m right. Picked the Mavericks to win the NBA Championship on January 3. Begrudgingly restaked the pick at the start of the playoffs. Only problem: I’ve wanted the Heat to win the whole dang time. See, I’m a complicated frontrunner. I have a very particular hierarchy of fandom that I follow […]
NBA Playoff Preview 2011
Man, I love the NBA Playoffs. And, the first weekend delivered. I called the Mavericks in six back at the beginning of the year, while Caron Butler was still a functioning human. There is no way in Shaq’s calf strain they are winning the whole thing at this point. But, I’m a man of my […]
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