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Vuvuzelas Go Viral
The attention given to the vuvu during this year’s World Cup has led to at least 20 apps being produced for the iPhone. Five of them are free and they range from being able to shake your phone and produce that deep buzzing sound to having to actually blow into the microphone of the phone until you develop smokers cough trying to reach the upper limit of vuvuzela nirvana. Now that we can take this horn anywhere, I’m thinking that it should be introduced to other sports.
Soccer is un-American? Thank God!
If soccer was the American Dream we would have to subject ourselves to its version of Dick Vitale, the Pittsburgh Pirates, LeBron-mania, Tiger Woods, and Jerry Jones.
Culture of Corruption Handcuffed Chicago’s Olympics Bid
His name is Daley and he’s stomping in the sand.
Not in Rio, mind you, but at Oak Street Beach.
It took more than 100 years, but Chicago’s long-standing culture of corruption, kickbacks and graft finally doomed the City on the most visible international stage since Upton Sinclair published The Jungle in 1906. Packingtown and its homegrown President were […]
Hype over Crawford’s dunk on LeBron is just that: Hype
This isn’t the Knicks’ John Starks dunking over the Bulls’ Horace Grant in the 1993 playoffs. This isn’t Kobe flying over Yao Ming in a 2006 regular season tilt. This isn’t MJ soaring over Sam Perkins in the 1991 Finals. Heck, I’ve seen more impressive dunks at my local Krispy Kreme.
Old Tom Haunts the Links Again
It’s surprising to watch the so-called golf experts break down the game that Tom Watson has displayed in his first two rounds at Turnberry, which has catapulted him to a share of the 36-hole lead with Steve Marino at 5-under par. How can so many pundits who have covered the game for decades ignore the […]
The Sharks are Favored to Lose the Stanley Cup. The Winner? Well…
The Kendallpedia Sports Bureau has issued its annual prediction for the loser of the Stanley Cup Finals. The Bureau’s motivation for this prediction is purely trivial. See, the NHL Playoffs have a running streak of 19 seasons in which teams from 19 different cities have failed in their quest to win in the Stanley Cup Finals. And this […]
The Quest for 30-and-Doh!
The story of the 1976 Indiana Hoosiers basketball team celebrating once all the undefeated teams receive the first blemish on their schedule is one that is never told in the mass media. I’m not even sure they perform the same annual ritual as the 1972 Dolphins. But the members of Bob Knight’s most magical team […]
NHL Pulls the Touk over their Eyes for Winter Classic at the Frozen Confines
Winter Classic Tickets on StubHub were going for a minimum of $225 up to $10,000. Chicago’s Craigslist ticket site also had many tickets, with most ticketholders wanting to recoup the face value of their purchase (some at $350). Demand was high for tickets because of the city, the rivalry between the Blackhawks and Red Wings […]
Another Desperate Appeal for Fans by the NHL
The Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings are getting set to drop the puck at Wrigley Field on New Year’s Day. This year’s installment of the Winter Classic will be the third in the NHL’s desperate attempt to draw fans, television ratings and childhood stories from displaced northern retirees now residing at The Villages. The NHL should rename the event the “Ty Conklin Classic”, as this netminder was between the posts for the previous two installments and could be again this year.
And I Thought Happiness was College GameDay in Lubbock, Texas
ESPN Confidential Memo to the GameDay crew: We regret to inform you that, despite the best efforts of Oklahoma State University, this Saturday’s match-up of undefeated Big 12 teams in Lubbock, Texas, has been selected as the location for this week’s edition of College GameDay. This will be the show’s, and probably your, first trip to Lubbock. We apologize for any inconvenience, but hope you enjoy the game between the University of Texas and Texas Tech University.
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