The message the Baseball Writers Association of America sent on Jan. 9 was loud and clear: Players who are even under suspicion of taking performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) are not welcome in Cooperstown. Coinciding with Lance Armstrong’s confession of using PEDs was the fact that the Baseball Writers Association of Read More…
I’ve heard it takes 21 days to form a new habit. I’m inclined to agree, because about a month into the NHL lockout last October I settled down into hibernation. I stopped checking blogs for news, I stopped watching highlight reels of the KHL or the Swiss leagues, I stopped Read More…
Injured NFL players just can’t win. In the end, the culture of the game always wins. Because in the NFL, if you don’t play through an injury, you’ll be thought of as soft. As a man lacking heart. You’ll be thought of as a quitter. That’s the culture of the Read More…
As a native Angeleno, transitioning to the Bay Area has had its ups and downs. People often ask me what I miss most about home, and while my family is always my first answer, my second is a puzzling one for them: the Los Angeles Kings. My father instilled in Read More…
Over the past three or four years, an influx of new baseball statistics has emerged on the MLB scene as a radical alternative to the traditional statistics dating back to baseball’s origin. Read More…
If you have regularly visited Edwards Stadium for soccer matches, you might recognize me. I’m the guy who always comes five minutes late to the game, taking his sweet time walking up to the very top row of the bleachers. I’m the guy who is always separated from the rest Read More…
If I had my way every Sunday night, I’d spend it watching football. I had my way this past Sunday, enjoying the game between the Baltimore Ravens and the New England Patriots. The tilt, despite featuring two of the best teams in the league, was largely overshadowed by the replacement Read More…
As the sun beats down one sultry summer afternoon in Nagpur, India, something in the air is amiss. The roads are barren, devoid of the daily bustle that so regularly consumes the city. The crowded country of 1.2 billion people is as quiet as it will ever be, huddled indoors, Read More…
Cal won 17 medals at the London Olympics, but what if it turns out that number increases? What if Cal actually won 22 medals — 15 golds — and we didn’t even realize what was going on? What if the London Olympics really solidified Cal as the No. 1 school at which to be an Olympic athlete — instead of No. 2 or 3 — blowing Stanford, USC and every other American school out of the water? What if Missy Franklin comes to Cal? Read More…
The Summer Olympics are essentially to the rest of the world what the FIFA World Cup is to America: an excuse to adopt some crazy fanaticism about sports one knows absolutely nothing about. There are, of course, countless “hell yeah!” moments in any given Olympics — most of which involve Team USA. But for every “hell yeah!” moment, there’s at least one that takes you by surprise and makes you stammer, “What the hell?” Read More…
