Category: Sports
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Who Wore It Better, Defunct Sports League Edition
I confess: I haven’t really had the time to update this thing recently. Worse, I’m kind of low on ideas for a post. I blame the oppressive heat. While I languish in Creative Prison (a la Hollywood this summer) I’m turning to the time-honored last resort of desperate bloggers everywhere: a poll. But not just any poll! I think I…
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HC=MLB?!
Much to the dismay of no one, spring has pounced upon us again. April, of course, brings us National Welder’s Month, tax day and Casey Kasem’s birthday (don’t worry, I signed your name to the card). Oh, and another Major League Baseball season has begun in earnest. Actually, it began a couple weeks ago when the Los…
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Falling Out of Love With Sports
The spark, as they say, is gone. My love affair with sports has long since reached its fever pitch and, like many a failing relationship, it’s now sustained by fleeting (albeit glorious) memories: the epic 2004 American League Championship Series. Flutie-to-Phelan. Jimmy Connors’ improbable run to the 1991 US Open semis. The 1986 Celtics only losing…
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The Following People Have Special Places Reserved In Hell
Let’s dispense with the flowery introduction…I mean, do the following people deserve a soft open? Methinks not. The title of the post kind of says it all, anyway. Hey: I get worked up over this stuff so you don’t have to. The creator of “Wag more, bark less.” This faux pearl of wisdom ostensibly would be…
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There’s No Saving The Pro Bowl. Or Is There?
It’s nothing new under the Hawaiian sun that the NFL Pro Bowl has, for years, failed miserably to achieve its main objective: to entertain fans (that sentence may be an early contender for Understatement of 2012). For as long as my NFL memory stretches, the game has at its best been watchable for about a…
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Things You Absolutely Must Remember Leading Up To The Super Bowl
Don’t worry! I know there’s endless analysis out there, so I’m keeping this under 500 words. 1.) It’s the Super Bowl, not the Superbowl. 2.) Much- and I mean MUCH- will be made about Eli Manning’s leap to elite status. To be fair, he has been sublime at times this season. However, the emergence of…
Geoff Wondering 