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NBA Help Still Wanted: The 20 Best Remaining Free Agents
Posted: 10th July 2010 by Brian Mosgaller in NBA
With no scarcity of media coverage, the big free agent domino, the King, fell and all the other big pieces followed.
It was exciting stuff, with the Big Three forming an evil empire with Pat Riley, Carlos Boozer giving the Bulls the perfect power forward fit they needed to pair with Derrick Rose, Amar’e Stoudemire reuniting with Mike D’Antoni, and David Lee heading west to put up monster numbers alongside Monta ...
Why Showing Up To Minicamp Was The Right Move For Tramon Williams
Posted: 22nd June 2010 by Brian Mosgaller in NFL
Aware of the Green Bay Packers’ secondary deficiencies as I am, the news that the team’s third corner, Tramon Williams, would be reporting to mandatory minicamp this week came as quite a relief.
To be clear, Williams did not kick and scream in skipping the team’s voluntary portions of the offseason.
Like Nick Collins the season before him, Williams showed up when he was required to, and did so in playing shape.
This ...
Okay, we get it already. Stephen Strasburg is more unstoppable than a gushing oil leak.
He’s the biggest sensation since Beanie Babies.
We might as well waive the mandatory five-years-removed-from-baseball clause for Hall of Fame induction and put the overpowering 6’4” righty in now.
Hell, let’s start building a new wing on the place dedicated to Strasburg and Strasmas and all other things Stras-related.
I’ve got news for you: slow your roll people.
Now, ...
Over five decades ago, American sociologist C. Wright Mills famously wrote The Power Elite, which asserted that a minute sliver of the population—the elite—held a tremendously disproportionate influence over the decision-making in the military, corporate, and political realms.
Now, you may or may not entirely agree with the validity of Mills’ thesis. But if we apply Mills’ notion to the world of sports, the type of person he had in mind ...
When NFL owners voted on Tuesday to hold the 2014 Super Bowl in East Rutherford, N.J., it signaled a climatic paradigm shift for the sport’s biggest game.
It also signaled stupidity.
By and large, it appears that the decision is being met favorably.
“Football is a game of the elements,” the large number of proponents say. “It is just going to make the experience more memorable!”
I get it. Some of the league’s trademark ...