I find the ways in which the poor economy is affecting sports to be incredibly interesting. NFL free agency started last night and it’s crazy that these guys are trying to get contracts for hundreds of millions of dollars while the rest of us simply settle for jobs that pay like 8 bucks an hour. [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Bill Simmons Explains the Financial Woes of the NBA
Posted in Basketball on February 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
College Hoops Observations: Henderson Flips Turtles but Inadvertently Sounds Duke’s Death Knell
Posted in Basketball on February 26, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Duke Thoughts
Gerald Henderson is a BEAST. The dunk he had where he goes up with two hands, then stretches out and dunks it with one hand was absolutely absurd. How did he do that? Scientists at NASA are working around the clock on that.
Anyway, it’s been a while since I’ve written one of these because [...]
Super 14 Week 2
Posted in Rugby on February 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
After week 1, week 2 of Super 14 Rugby was pretty much the same song different verse. This week, however, the score were lower as teams have knocked the rust off their defensive skills and oh by the way, every single home team won. Here’s what went down on Friday and Saturday, the home team [...]
Who’s Your Daddy? Battier!
Posted in Basketball on February 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
First the Duke Basketball Report had this article, then Michael Orr emailed it to me, then Deadspin had it not once, but twice on their site. It’s an article written by the guy who wrote Moneyball. The article centers on Duke legend Shane Battier and how his play on a team is critical but difficult [...]
Super 14 Fixtures and the History of SA Rugby (abbreviated)
Posted in Rugby on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hey baseball fans, let Super 14 Rugby distract you from the fact that baseball is collapsing like a dying star. (Although, if you told me steroids was rampant in rugby I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised.)
I’ll give you this weekend’s slate of games and then a brief explanation for why I think South African [...]
Super 14 Week 1
Posted in Rugby on February 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Week one of Super 14 Rugby is in the books and 6 of the 7 games were tightly contested. But before I go any further I realized that I needed to explain the point system. Here’s how it works: you get 4pts for a win, you get 2pts for a tie, and 0pts for losing. [...]
Super 14 Teams, Choose Wisely
Posted in Rugby on February 10, 2009 | 5 Comments »
This Friday the thirteenth Super 14 Rugby starts and then Saturday there is a full slate of games including my Stormers (Cape Town, South Africa) taking on the hated and typically awesome Sharks (Durban, South Africa). The game is in Cape Town so hopefully the crowd at Newlands Stadium will be enough to push the [...]
Rugby 101
Posted in Rugby on February 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
You probably don’t know how to play rugby and unless you get the basics none of what I write about in the future will make much sense. Therefore, I’m going to give you Rugby 101 courtesy of the Greenville Griffin’s website. Everything they think you need to know can be found by clicking this link [...]
The Return of the Iron Dukes
Posted in Football on February 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Sweet baby Jesus, is that Duke football being featured on ESPN.com?!?! YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN!
So apparently David Cutcliffe wasn’t satisfied with 4 wins last season even though that was a 400% increase on the amount of wins Duke had the year before. In fact, in the four years prior to [...]
Things We Hate About ESPN
Posted in Commentary & Analysis on February 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Deadspin the other day ran a post about this guy Jeff Pearlman who used to work for The Worldwide “Leader” and then ran a list of the top 10 things he hated about ESPN. The comment section blew up with people adding stuff (I added my own comment). I think this is a popular subject [...]
Read Full Post »