The NBA playoffs are underway and everybody’s played their Game Ones. There were some predictable outcomes — Lakers, Cavs rolling — and then there were a bevy of upsets. Dallas, Philadelphia and Chicago all took advantage of teams with missing or ailing superstars and they all toppled the higher seeds on their home courts. As [...]
New Yankee Stadium seems to have something about it. Maybe they spent a bit much on outfield air conditioning and the fans are sucking the balls out further than they should be going. Maybe the Indians and Yankees are just that powerful. Or maybe Chein-Ming Wang just sucks that bad this season. Well, for some [...]
With the NBA getting ready to tipoff on Saturday and duel with the NHL playoffs — a duel that roundball surely will win — it’s time to break down the series and give some picks. It kind of sucks that there’s very little standing in the way of the Lakers-Cavaliers final — which will be [...]
Since there will be much said tomorrow about the Celtics loss of both Kevin Garnett and hope for a championship repeat, I’ll get to the other huge news story of yesterday: John Madden’s retirement.
Madden broke into the NFL as coach of the Raiders and is regarded as a legend in the game. He helped the [...]
With the three major sports and hockey all making headlines yesterday, there’s much to talk about in the sports universe. Even European soccer had some high-level action going with Champions League play. You have to love April for sports.
The NBA wrapped up their regular season last night and so the playoffs (and lottery) and set. [...]
What’s the point of even holding a lottery when there’s hardly a chance that anyone other than the worst team will win? Where’s the intrigue in the NHL draft lottery? Last night, there was about a 49% that the Islanders would land the first pick in this summer’s draft. That’s like rooting for the house [...]
If there’s a best time of the year for the NHL, it’s the playoffs. I prefer the offseason since I don’t have to watch any games, but if forced to; I’d pick playoff time as the best action the NHL has to offer. In the East there’re two classic rivalries that could get ugly and [...]
I have to preface this with the fact that I’m not – in any way, shape or form – a golf fan. The extent of how much I play golf is the occasion mini-putt whooping of colleagues or hammering some drives down at the range on a hot summer day. When it comes to watching the [...]
It’s really moments like these when you realize that sports aren’t the biggest thing in the world. When a guy who’s 22 and at the beginning of a career doing anything dies because someone ran a red light — while drunk — it makes you think about how fragile life is. The thing is, it’s [...]
When you start to think about all the great times of the year that sports has, is there any better than this week — the first week of April? You have two sports wrapping up their regular season — the NBA and NHL — with great races determining playoff seeds, division battles and even lottery [...]
