Archive for April, 2009
Quit Staal-ing, We’ve Got a Series to Finnish
Sunday night I was sitting in the upper deck of the RBC Center in Raleigh to cheer on the Carolina Hurricanes in game 6 of the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs against the New Jersey Devils. Sitting next to me was a NY Islanders fan, Keith, who is hoping his team will re-locate so […]
Davidson’s Curry Catches SoCon with their Chickens in One Bucket
The big news in college basketball today was the announcement by Davidson’s Stephen Curry that he will forego his senior season, enter the NBA draft and hire an agent thus ensuring he cannot return to make another magical run in the NCAA Tournament. While this may upset college basketball purists and dash the hopes of […]
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 […]
Late Musings on The Masters
Augusta = PGA Championship?: Remember those years in the early 2000s when sportwriters and talking heads would drone on and on about how the PGA Championship was the least relevant major? They pointed to a lackluster list of champions as proof of this status.
Well, where’s that talk about The Masters? The last three champions are […]
With All Due Respect, It’s Still Hard to Accept the Heels as Champions
Few people can say this: It was hard being a college basketball fan while growing up in North Carolina.
You have it drilled into you that God loves the Tar Heels so much that he painted the sky Carolina Blue. And as a child in school you watch ACC Tournament games during regular school hours. […]
Cubs christen the “House that ‘Roids Built” in first step to replace Wrigley
Don’t think for a moment that it is an attempt at nostalgia or coincidence that the Chicago Cubs were chosen to open the new Yankee Stadium during an exhibition game on Friday night. Bud Selig and his cronies are making their first attempt to help current and future Cubs ownership introduce the idea that replacing […]
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