NBA Finals Preview: Is the Lake Show Back?
It’s October, which can only mean one thing: playoff bas…. BASKETBALL?! That’s 2020 for ya. But here we are, with the Lakers and the Heat squaring off in front of nobody in Orlando, just how…
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Welcome Back, Live Sports…?
If I’ve trailed off, I apologize. Like many Americans, I’m at a loss for words to describe much of anything in 2020, especially the year 2020 itself. It’s been awful, sad, infuriating, terrifying, puzzling, just…
Is it Weird That I Don’t Really Miss Sports?
Do you miss sports? (That was a rhetorical question.) Of course we do! Who wouldn’t? Even a casual fan would give their left arm to throw back a few beers at a baseball game right…
NBA Finals: A Bay Area Threepeat or Oh, Canada?
Once again, apologies for the late arrival to the party. It didn’t affect me with my NHL Stanley Cup prediction, so I’m thinking I might be okay here. Let’s look now at the first NBA…
Frazier Gets Revenge, But Yanks Will Have Last Laugh
It’s a theme that has circulated the sports spectrum before. A cast-off member of a rising team basks in his one shining moment against the club that unceremoniously ditched him, only to ultimately watch that…
NBA Finals: Some Things Never Change, Do They?
Just in case the Vegas Golden Knights throw a wrench into my recent championship-picking success, the Golden State Warriors have come to the rescue to give me — and basically anyone who has watched at least…
April Resignation: Sorry America, We’re Doomed: Here Comes the Boston Dirty Dozen
If you’ve watched, say, a single minute of baseball this year, you know the entire league is a one-team show. Of course, I had the wrong Evil Empire as the one to flirt with history….
NBA, NHL Picks and Hanging on to Playoff Dreams Before a Dreary Summer Begins
I kind of see now what football fans whine about all summer. “There aren’t any sports on TV!” “Everything is boring until September!” Are these insufferable goofballs actually making sense all of a sudden? Personally,…
NBA Playoffs Preview: Who Can Shake up the Field?
It’s playoff time in the NBA. Many moons ago, this was a very exciting time for folks, even though this is a sport and a league dominated by teams with star players at their disposal….
“Epic” Super Bowl Caps a Year’s Worth of Championship-Caliber Title Games
I refuse to apologize for air-quoting the word epic to describe Super Bowl LI. It was, is, and should forever be seen as the worst choke-job of all time rather than a heroic comeback. That…