I couldn’t have timed my return from vacation any better: After a week of hemming, hawing and delaying a couple votes to end the lockout, the NFL is finally back to work. But unlike yours truly, who had a splendid time in Costa Rica, the NFL has returned from exiling its [...]
Before the title of this post confuses you into thinking that I believe that Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison could actually be smart for ripping his own teammates after making it to the Super Bowl last season, I’ll just settle that right now: James Harrison is an idiot for ripping Rashard [...]
This is just plain getting out of hand. We’ve gotten to the point where 11% of baseball players on a MLB roster can claim that they were 2011 all-stars. Yes, this year, 84 players got the call to play in Phoenix.
Sure, there were injuries that kept people out and pitchers that started on Sunday were [...]
The reported retirement of Houston Rockets superstar Yao Ming got me thinking about the massive man from China and how we’ll remember him.
Yao was plenty of things — unstoppable big man, pioneer for Chinese basketball, one of the few true centres in the league, let down by his [...]
If there’s one thing that has been settled in the world of sports this past week, it’s that Canada’s women’s soccer team is pathetic. How else could you explain the national team’s result at the Women’s World Cup?
In three games, Canada didn’t earn a point and could only score one goal – even if it [...]
Well, we knew the guy was good, but record-shatteringly good? I had no clue! Especially in the popularity department.
Yes, Jose Bautista beat Ken Griffey Jr.’s record for all-star votes of 6.1 million by being selected on an unfathomable 7.4 million ballots. That’s not just besting an old mark, it’s completely destroying it. When [...]
