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Hey Soccer Fans: Ann Coulter Thinks You’re Pussies
In yet another bid to maintain whatever relevance she has left, Ann Coulter takes on soccer fans in her latest column and proves that she knows about as little about the game as she does anything...
Linky Friday #72
Linky Friday: categories this week are sports and culture, art and nature, economics and politics, and war and peace.
Linky Friday No. 61
It’s Linky Friday and now you have a way to malinger productivity while reading random links embedded in wry comments that are only funny after you read the articles!
The Most Wonderful Time of the Sports Year?
Kazzy ranks the sports year month-by-month. (Spoiler: His relatively low valuation of Major League Baseball just might make Mike Schilling’s head explode)
Twenty-Five!
You might have seen that Michael Jordan recently announced his idea of an all-time all-star basketball five, one that he thought would never lose a pickup game. It’s caused a lot of dissension, not...
People are Dumb
A recent public survey of the most disliked NFL players reveals how dumb people can be. And not just because Tim Tebow was left off the list.
Nothing is more important than sports
Maclean’s Adam Goldenberg compares sportscasters to cockroaches… which is actually rather complementary.
Riley Cooper Must Go
I wish I could write more on the subject, but for now I will simply say that the Philadelphia Eagles absolutely should cut Riley Cooper after his violent and racist diatribe. If what his...
SRSLY?
I fully recognize that the MLB All-Star Game is primarily an exhibition, in spite of the Commissioner’s attempt to “make it count” instead of just doing what the NBA and NHL does and just assign home-field advantage in the championship round to the team with the better record*. And I get that the MLB All-Star Game MVP matters even less. But awarding it to Mariano Rivera for the impressive task of throwing a single shut-out inning, a feat 5 other […]
No-no!
Tim Lincecum has had a rough couple of years. After winning the Cy Young award his first two years and helping to lead the Giants to a championship the next year, he somehow lost it. Last year he was bad, in fact the worst starting pitcher in baseball. He still struck a lot of hitters out, but also gave up for too many walks and home runs. He was generally lucky to last through the sixth inning. For the post-season, […]
Bodies!
Last year, I shared some of the images from ESPN the Magazine’s annual “The Body” issue. The joke then was that the seemingly perfect specimens they were offering us should make anyone a sports fan. But this year, ESPN included a number of non-traditional “bodies”, an effort for which I applaud them. You’ve got 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s almost entirely tattooed torso. Golf legend Gary Player in his 77-year-old glory. Motorcross racer Tarah Gieger and her stacked thighs. And perhaps most amazingly, and beautifully, […]
Kazzy Questions #1
Esteemed commenter Kolohe asks: “Will a woman attempt a field goal or an extra point in a regular season game in the NFL sometime within the next 50 years?” So, basically, he’s asking if...
Seattle Pride
Last Sunday, the Seattle Mariners became the first-ever American professional sports team to publicly fly a Gay Pride flag during a game. Mariners spokeswoman Rebecca Hale had this to say about the decision: “We’re...
Game of Thrones: “The Rains Of Castamere”
I wasn’t planning on writing about Game of Thrones today, but here we are. Saturday night I was at a Mexican restaurant with several friends when the conversation turned to Westeros. “You guys better...
The latest Olympic sport to get the axe is… wrestling?
My good friend Brandon Foose has pointed out to me that the Olympics has decided to end its 2700-year relationship with wrestling effective 2020: There are millions of people whose lives have been shaped by...
