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June 16, 2009

What to do now?

by Dan Bilicki In: Baseball, Basketball, Football, Ice Hockey, Soccer

Now that the “winter” sports are over and wrapped up after the Lakers decisive win on Sunday and Pittsburgh taking home the Stanley Cup on Friday, there’s not too much out there in the sporting world right now. Or so you may think.
Of course, there’s still the glorious sport of baseball going on and they [...]

June 15, 2009

No Magic here, Lakers are champions

by Dan Bilicki In: Basketball

The NBA Finals ended just the same as they started: With the Lakers standing triumphant after blowing out the Orlando Magic. 99-86 Los Angeles. In the end, the three-point bombing squad from Florida just couldn’t put it all together against the superior team.
Congratulations to Kobe Bryant, who not only won his first championship without Shaq, [...]

June 13, 2009

The Hossa Curse

by Dan Bilicki In: Ice Hockey

Well, if there’s one guy to blame for the Red Wings losing to Sid the Kid and Geno Malkin’s Penguins, it’s Marian Hossa. As realized from Game 3 of the NBA Finals, karma matters in sports. And Hossa, who left the Penguins — after losing to Detroit last year — to join the Red Wings [...]

June 12, 2009

Where awfulness happens

by Dan Bilicki In: Basketball

All that I have to say about last night’s travesty that masqueraded as a basketball game is this: Despite the referees bending over backwards to give the Magic every single advantage, they still choked away a 12-point lead to the Lakers.  Refereeing in the NBA has gotten to a point where it’s actually disgusting me [...]

June 11, 2009

Buying a championship

by Dan Bilicki In: Soccer

Soccer, like in no other sport, is the only sport you can buy a championship. With the way their transfer system works, the big money teams are highly favoured every year since, if they’re missing a piece, they can simply buy it from a team lower than them who may be in need of cash. [...]

June 10, 2009

Magic take Game 3

by Dan Bilicki In: Basketball

Well, you could tell it was coming. After a performance for four quarters on Sunday that made the Magic look like they deserved a win in L.A., they came out of Game 3 with the series at 2-1, instead of a virtually impossible 3-0. And boy, did they pull off some magic to make it [...]

June 8, 2009

Lakers magically escape Game 2

by Dan Bilicki In: Basketball

Realistically, it was a game that the Magic should have won, but blew it. Bad decisions, bad execution, bad you-name-it towards the end of the game and in overtime cost Orlando their shot at coming home with the series even. Now, they’re in tough and on their heels at home – having to make sure [...]

June 5, 2009

So, that was embarrassing

by Dan Bilicki In: Basketball

Kobe Bryant played last night’s game against the Magic with an intensity I haven’t seen from him in a long time. Even with the Lakers up big in the fourth quarter, Kobe was still driving to the hope trying to expand an already huge lead. What impressed me the most was the way he was [...]

June 4, 2009

One hell of a day for the Braves

by Dan Bilicki In: Baseball

It’s not every day that a team releases a future Hall-of-Famer and 305 game winner — who just finished rehab. It’s also not every day that a team trades for an all-star. Well the Atlanta Braves got both of those onto the transaction list yesterday.
First, they straight up released Tom Glavine, who had pitched six [...]

June 3, 2009

A slippery slope? Hardly

by Dan Bilicki In: Baseball, Basketball, Ice Hockey, Soccer

So a WNBA team is putting a sponsor’s name on their uniforms starting this coming season. Surprisingly, people actually care. The WNBA mainly gets its press because the NBA — which runs the league — demands the coverage, but now the women’s association is making news all by themselves. The real debate here is will [...]

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