Lightning Crashes
I find it difficult to fathom that none of the other writers at this fledgling sports website have not picked up on what has clearly been the biggest story of the week if not of 2011 thus far. Perhaps,…
Soccer
The Sisters of St. Joseph
The first rule of fandom is that you root for the team your dad roots for. My dad immigrated to this country as a soccer fan. Specifically, a Benfica fan, being a native of Lisbon. And a soccer fan…
Baseball
‘Sometimes I Saw the Catcher, Sometimes I Didn’t’
After Anker linked to it the other day, I started reading this great story by Mark Jacobson about Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson — the Yankee pitchers who literally swapped wives in 1972 — and this paragraph jumped out at…
Baseball
A House Divided
This was the sign in front of my parents’ house in October of 2000. The Yankees and Mets were playing each other in the World Series. What you don’t see here (and I’m forcing my mother to find a picture…
Baseball
Pacific +2
It’s the last day of the Pac-10 conference. After 33 years of existence, the conference gets reborn tomorrow as the Pac-12. It’s the culmination of what Commissioner Larry Scott was hired to do—bring money and prestige to a conference…
Football
Tricky Dicks
The longest surviving sports affiliation of my life is the New York Yankees, and I hate them. Fandom comes and goes, but loathing is forever. I discovered the Yankees in 1977, the year I turned nine and was sucked into…
Baseball
The 22 Rules of Backyard Wiffle Ball
Jason Gay: Rule 1: It’s not a real Wiffle ball game unless you can break a window. Or windows. […] Rule 11: Yes you can throw your super-awesome curve ball. But throw it fat and slow over the plate. Like…
Baseball
“Why Do People Even Like Hockey?”
I was spending some time on Google this morning, doing research for some brilliant, life changing thing I was going to write about hockey but I got distracted by clicking on too many links to Yahoo Answers and I forgot…
Hockey
Where’s Jaromir?
Jaromir Jagr — heading back to the NHL after playing in Russia for three years — was supposed to sign with the Penguins today. Or maybe the Red Wings. Or Montreal. But as of 9:30 tonight we still don’t know…
Hockey
Like Kings Who Want More
It’s no stretch to argue that last night’s Phillies-Red Sox game here in Philly was the biggest baseball game of the season to date. It’s only June, of course, but still: The Phils entered with the best record in…
Baseball
