Ever noticed how the NBA feels a bit like high school sometimes? The cool kids (aka the superstars) always seem to be plotting their next move to a shinier, more happening spot, leaving the less glamorous cliques (read: small-market teams) wondering what hit them. Throughout the whole process, the media keeps licking their lips. It’s … Read more
It’s funny how video games can influence real life. There are so many stories on how video games have predicted some occurrences. At the same time, some of them predicted a certain professional athlete’s career. But it must be said that these predictions weren’t always accurate. Every Football Manager lover knows exactly who Freddy Adu … Read more
David Beckham really knows how to attract new deals and raise the popularity of his club. I mean, it’s only a decade since he got his club, and Inter Miami is already in the first league, competing for titles and everything. The best deal he’s done by now is surely the one that brought his … Read more
In this era of professional football, running backs tend to be as treasured and as long-lasting as a disposable razor. And yet, in spite of that, there is Marshawn Lynch. Thanks to other metropolitan media markets, you might recognize Lynch as the gold-toothed eye at the center of the Super Bowl coverage storm. Here in … Read more
In which Andy Dick says awful things to everyone nearby, but does so on purpose, while movie cameras are running. Division III football means a great deal to those that are a part of it, just as bigger-time football does to the larger and louder populations that give it pride of place in their lives. … Read more
Never has there been a football movie crazier or more determinedly over the top than “The Last Boy Scout.” It was probably not supposed to seem prescient. We are nearing the end of pro football’s Septimana horribilis. It has not been much fun for anyone that enjoys pro football, watching its many dysfunctions surface at the … Read more
The San Francisco Giants have a very particular problem with their broadcast team and their female fans. But it’s bigger than the Giants, and bigger than it seems. Language matters. Words have meaning, often more than one. Sometimes the speaker means one thing but the listener hears another because words have histories and people have … Read more
The Texas Rangers have a talented young minor leaguer who is swiftly and impressively making his way to the big leagues. I could tell you, here, about his quick bat, or his range at second base. I’d like to tell you about his sturdy build and his marked on-field nasty streak. I would, if I … Read more
It seems like a million years ago that ESPN blithely celebrated NFL killshot tackles with their own loud, hooting show. It wasn’t. Chris Simms did the second-worst thing possible. He floated a lazy, five-yard dump-off pass over the middle to halfback Michael Pittman. This put Pittman in a thankless position, but he did his duty … Read more
The Philadelphia 76ers won only one title with Julius Erving and Moses Malone. It was enough. So, we’ve spammed it a lot, which means you probably know that the second issue of The Classical Magazine is out. This piece, from our dude Patrick Sauer, about the legendary “Fo’ Fo’ Fo’” Philadelphia 76ers NBA championship team, is … Read more