English soccer fans rioted yesterday.
People’s faces were messed up, hundreds of beer bottles were broken and crooked, yellowing teeth littered the ground. None of these things had anything to do with the soccer riot. That’s just London on a Tuesday.
I could write, were I so inclined, about the emotional intensity of “big” games, and how [...]
A few days after Michael Vick showed everyone that you can pretty much do everything short of actually killing people and still deserve a second chance, a couple of former sports heroes decided to follow his lead.
First, Brett Favre, who never did anything illegal, is apparently ready to join the Minnesota Vikings. While Favre may [...]
On June 22, 2009, along with thousands of other writers and editors who cover video games, sports or both, I received a press release from EA Sports, developer of the bestselling NHL franchise.
Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today revealed that 20-year-old scoring phenom Patrick Kane of the Chicago Blackhawks will be the new face of [...]
As a rule, I’m not one to hate on Ken Holland. All those shiny rings, fond memories and the diamonds he keeps finding in the rough make it very difficult to do that.
Today, however, I’ll make a brief, 300-word exception to that rule:
Jason Williams?!?!?!
Was the need to replace Mikael Samuelsson really that great? How badly, [...]
That’s the closest I can come to summing up why the Red Wings are consistently able to get more from players than other organizations.
I’m not just talking about the reclamation projects, though that’s the impetus for this post, but about roughly 75% of the team.
When speaking of successful organizations, obnoxious pundits — yours truly included [...]
It’s been a while. And that’s on me. For a multitude of reasons. The games that are supposed to be dirty had either peaked, gotten so filthy that it wasn’t fun anymore or were … well, just too depressing for words.
It’s pretty hard to top the combination of vacuous journalism, political intrigue and stump-dumb citizenry [...]