I wrote about this guy 4 years ago, and now he’s all growns up. I said, he’s all growns up! dammit, why couldn’t the mavs have signed him?
Entries Tagged as 'sports'
Where can I buy a Golden State Warriors jersey?
Posted: July 22nd, 2010 at 9:49 am · Comments Off
The Suns don’t <3 immigrants as much as they want you to think they do
Posted: May 5th, 2010 at 12:15 am · 2 Comments
there is a rich history of professional sports and political activism1. but truth be told, these days most pro athletes and owners try to stay out of the headlines when it comes to expressing political opinions. anyone remember when lebron james wouldn’t sign a petition calling for a stop to genocide in darfur? i do. [...]
a nice sports story for these dark sports times
Posted: February 17th, 2009 at 11:54 am · Comments Off
there are several reasons why i don’t blog much anymore and one day i’ll get around to blogging about them1. but one of the reasons i don’t blog is that i feel like i’m losing the war to save the soul of sports. my dissatisfaction with sports and the direction of sports culture has [...]
Tags: puppy dogs and rainbows · sports
how to apologize and how not to not apologize, a comparison
Posted: June 24th, 2008 at 3:54 pm · 1 Comment
get it? because he’s a blowhard you know, as long as there are black people in sports, i’m always going to have something to blog about. recently, there have been two incidents involving high profile media personalities and their comments being construed as offensive by a racial/ethnic group. but what i think is instructive is [...]
Tags: ESPN.com · don imus · jemele hill · poplicks · race · sports · sports media · steroids
i don’t think i’m ever going to read a sports column again
Posted: June 4th, 2008 at 9:46 am · 1 Comment
so rick reilly’s column made its much anticipated debut for espn this week. i’m sure that i don’t have to tell you, it’s terrible. and when i say terrible, i don’t mean in that conventional way that 95% of sports columnists are terrible. i mean terrible in the way that showgirls was terrible. terrible in [...]
Tags: ESPN · Sports Illustrated · douchebaggery · rick reilly · sports · sports media
wacky clemens legal wrangling
Posted: May 28th, 2008 at 9:41 am · Comments Off
roger clemens is really starting to piss me off. even after the whole mindy mccready thing came down, he’s still going ahead with his defamation lawsuit against brian mcnamee. in a crazy legal filing, he is trying to sue him mcnamee in texas state court. here is his lawyer’s rationale: When a person who is [...]
Tags: douchebaggery · jurisprudence · roger clemens · sports
an open letter to 2008 olympic athletes
Posted: May 27th, 2008 at 9:23 pm · Comments Off
dear olympian, congratulations on years of hard work and athletic excellence. your time to shine on the world stage is approaching and i wish you nothing but good luck in your quest for every amateur athlete’s lifelong dream, olympic glory. in your quest for glory however, i am asking that you not be so focused [...]
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