Today is Super Bowl Sunday! Thus, I am sure you think that most significant football-related thing you will do today will be to watch the NFL championship game between the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles. You’d be wrong, though! The most important thing you’ll do today is listen to “San Diego Super Chargers,” the disco…
In almost every way. LeBron James’s career has been wildly successful. You don’t need me to tell you that. But for as much fulfillment as he’s provided, there’s one glaring deficiency–one that really has nothing to do with his play, or the success of his teams. But, for better or worse, it has everything to…
Every 25 entries, I’m going to take a break listing my favorite things to talk about something I don’t like: Deadspin is easily my least favorite website that I regularly visit. They’re the sports wing of the Gawker empire and a frustrating, mean-spirited, unambitious web site that does more to poison online discussion about sports…
I’ve played so much of the NBA 2K series, to a point that should probably be embarrassing. (Point of comparison: I’ve probably spent about 10x more time playing basketball video games than watching actual basketball over the past few years.) The thing that sucks the vast majority of my time is “The Association” mode, where…
I was an avowed daily reader of the Washington Post Sports section throughout middle and high school. The Post trails behind the NY Times, The Wall Street Journal, and maybe a couple others in overall prestige. But there’s no way any newspaper ever assembled a more impressive stable of sportswriters than the Post those last…
A record-setting number of people watched The Big Game yesterday, so I’m sure everyone and their grandmother has something to say about the proceedings. Nonetheless, I couldn’t resist sharing my own take on a few aspects of yesterday’s Super Bowl. The matchup Really, was there a worse possible matchup? Both teams have won Super Bowls…