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We will be back with our weekly picks of who to cheer and jeer in the college and pros in a couple days but first I need to pause for a moment and reflect on the historic week we have all just been a part of. You know it must be a significant moment in […]
The Hierarchy of Hate v2.0 - Week #2
After a week when two rookie head coaches starting rookie quarterbacks won games, there is no telling what could happen this week in the NFL. Maybe the NFL will get back to sanity this week, maybe it will just get stranger. Who knows?
With that in mind, if you are of a betting persuasion there […]
NBC’s Unconscionable East Coast Bias
I try to be tactful and respectful when leveling criticism at those who deserve it. Today, however that goes out the window. If someone screws up something that only occurs every four years, then I am allowed a once-every-four-years disrespectful moment.
NBC Sports is run by a bunch of lying, self-important morons.
How else to explain […]
Olympic Ring-around-the-Rosies
We are back this week with another roundtable where we bring 4 different viewpoints together and discuss some random topic and I get to tell the others why they are wrong.
Our topics today?
What is your favorite Olympic sport? What is your least favorite?
I know the Olympics are still a few weeks away but […]
Around the World in 800 Words
I have been so pre-occupied following the round-the-clock drama that is Brett Favre’s unwillingness to let the spotlight move on to someone else that I have ignored all kinds of great sports action. Let’s check in with the sports world at large before we (happily) get immersed 100% in the world of football with training […]
He Said, She Said - Part Deux
I am happy to report that I have heard from Jules and Turner after they made it back from some secret mission to a location cryptically named ‘Heere at the Wall’ where they apparently successfully found some sort of treasure (though for some reason I still got my monthly request for payment from their employer in the […]
He Said, She Said
Well today was planned to be another visit to our McLaughlin Group style roundtable. Unfortunately, both Turner and Jules got so excited by the real anniversary of our country’s declaring independence that they jumped in a plane and flew to Philadelphia to look for a set of special glasses hidden in the brick work on […]
Convening King Arthur’s Round Table
I used to love that McLaughlin Group show. Get a bunch of disparate views together and let them tell their side of some issue and then an old curmudgeon calls them names and tell them why they are wrong. Now that is great television.
OK, full disclosure. I never actually saw the McLaughlin Group show. […]
Joy and Pain, Sunshine and Rain
As has been mentioned several times here, I spend a lot of time in both Seattle and Denver. After spending a solid week and a half in Seattle and then returning to Denver for a few days, the stark contrast really struck me. Beyond the different definitions of ‘summer’, in the world of sports there […]
It’s a Scandal Throwdown!
As we face the beginning of the silly sports season, a time when things like skateboard vert comps, Formula One and mountain biking dominate the Saturday afternoon TV schedule, it is time to look at the two biggest stories dominating discussion of two of the ‘big three’.
(NOTE #1: This isn’t meant to disparage any of […]
