NBA 2013-14 Preview: Northwest Division

A Thunder without Westbrook, the Nuggets try gettin’ tough, Minnesota is all about Love, and the Jazz are starting over NORTHWEST DIVISION OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER (Last season: 60-22, 1st in…

NBA 2013-14 Preview: Southeast Division

The champs are still here, John Wall is primed to break out, and… that’s about it. SOUTHEAST DIVISION MIAMI HEAT (Last season: 66-16, 1st in Southeast, 1st in Conference) IN:…

NBA 2013-14 Preview: Pacific Division

The Doc is in for Lob City, the Warriors bank on small ball, the Suns are a dumpster fire, and the Lakers are… rebuilding? PACIFIC DIVISION LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS (Last…

Goodbye To You, 2-3-2

The reformatting of the NBA Finals provides plenty of what if’s but more of the same in the future When I tuned in on a Sunday night to see the…

The Lost Franchises

How greed, short sightedness, and bad bounces buried the ABA’s Spirits of St. Louis and Kentucky Colonels at the last second It is quite often that when you read long-winded…

Help Wanted: Losing Not Optional

Why being an NBA head coach might be the most thankless job in pro sports While I watched members of the Orlando Magic sit in a crowded room for the…

The Fiefdom of Sports Officials

Imagine it’s a dark room at Progressive Field in Cleveland.  The A’s have just tied the game over the Indians on a home run by Adam Rosales in the top…

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Preview

Three of college basketball’s greatest coaches will be inducted on September 8 along with Gary Payton and Bernard King As a fan of the Southeastern Conference and lifelong LSU Tigers…

The Air Apparently Nots

 The retirements of Allen Iverson and Tracy McGrady recollect a post-Jordan era filled with promise, overhype, and ultimately disappointment. This past summer, we reached the ten-year anniversary of the 2003…

The Sports Night Wars

The story that ESPN does not want you to read Back in 1994, when the young Fox Network and its entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch got in on the sports action and…