With Super bowl implications at hand this weekend, the NFL conference championships surely will not disappoint. In the NFC championship there is a couple of division foes ready to battle it out for the third time this season as the Seattle Seahawks will host the San Francisco 49ers. Defence wins championships. The NFC match-up will […]
Masai Ujuri was already a recipient of the NBA Executive of the Year award when Toronto lured him out of Denver, and since coming to Toronto he has made a couple of huge trades to shed some cap off the Raptors’ books by dealing away bad contracts former GM Bryan Colangelo had given out. Yes, […]
The NFL has developed into a quarterback-driven league; to win, a team must have a special quarterback. Every year there are some shoe-ins who have the starting job for their team; however, for some teams, every new year brings with it a quarterback competition at training camp. The biggest quarterback battle this year is Mark […]
As a Los Angeles Dodgers fan transplanted in the Bay Area, I am a true believer embedded deep within enemy lines. From the flocks of San Francisco Giants jerseys crowding the train to the slurred rallying cries echoing from every bar, I am surrounded by hostility, by a sea of swarming, insolent fools clamouring for […]
After an offseason which built a significant amount of hype for the Toronto Blue Jays, the first half of the summer did not really live up to expectations. The acquisitions of R.A. Dickey, Jose Reyes, Josh Johnson, Mark Buehrle, Melky Cabrera and company had the baseball world buzzing; however, injuries and inconsistencies have the Blue […]
First and foremost, for all you Michael J. Fox megafans (and really, who isn’t one?) expecting a recap of the delightful romp Doc Hollywood– a winning film concerning the comic and romantic entanglements of a big city doctor stuck in a small town- I sincerely apologize. This is not that article and, in all likelihood, […]
In the days between Game 6 and 7, I dreamed of the article I’d write after the Spurs won. Championing coherent role players, fluid ball movement, and hard nosed defense, another ring for Gregg Popovich, Tim Duncan, and the rest of the silver and black would cement their legacy as the only true post-Millennium dynasty […]
Just days before the trade deadline, Calgary Flames all-star veteran Jarome Iginla had been generating a lot of heated trade discussion around the league. There were seemingly four teams in the running for the all-star winger: Boston, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, and Detroit. Then, on the eve of March 27th, it seemed evident that the Boston […]