Archive for 2009
Sports Guy bathing in hot water
Twitter trouble: It’s not just for professional athletes anymore. ESPN.com’s The Sports Guy Bill Simmons has joined a long line of athletes, including Milwaukee Bucks point guard Brandon Jennings and Cincinnati Bengals running back Larry Johnson, that have tweeted their way to controversy. Simmons made a couple of inflammatory statements on Twitter about Boston area [...]
Meyer is already living his dream job
Despite rumors swirling about possibly taking the Notre Dame football head coaching job, University of Florida football coach Urban Meyer made the earth-shattering announcement Monday that he plans on staying in Gainesville “for as long as they’ll have him.” Shocking stuff, I know. I fully expected Meyer to announce his plans to immediately openly campaign [...]
I’ll never be a coach
How about that Harvard/Yale game! You read that correctly. I can’t remember if I have ever seen highlights from “The Game” on SportsCenter before, but I was shocked at what I saw. With two and a half minutes to go and Yale leading Harvard 10-7, Bulldogs coach Tom Williams called a fake punt run on fourth-and-22 from [...]
Political correctness at a whole new level
Whatever you do, don’t call me an “AY-merican.” And don’t think I’m the only one who gets his undies in a bundle over this type of mispronunciation error. For instance, look at what happened to Los Angeles Clippers TV announcers Ralph Lawler and Michael Smith. They were both suspended by the Fox Sports Prime Ticket cable network [...]
Introduction
Eric Balkman Published Writer/Editor After serving as the sports editor for The Advance-Titan in Oshkosh, Wis., Balkman has also written sports features and covered football, women’s gymnastics, men’s soccer, men’s swimming & diving, men’s and women’s tennis, and men’s and women’s indoor and outdoor track and field all at the collegiate level. Balkman has also been [...]
Scott Skiles’ “Ugly” Milwaukee Bucks Become Unwatchable—Finally!
I am so sick and tired of watching exciting basketball. You know the type: An up-tempo style featuring high-flying, acrobatic dunks and long-range three point bombs. That brand of hoops usually means final scores like 132-127, 3-4 players with 20+ points, and the team possessing the ball last scoring and winning. Well, I’ve simply had it with [...]
Portland Trailblazers’ Larry Miller Going the Extra “Mile”
What would happen if you realized you screwed up big time at your job and you knew everyone would notice? What would you do? Would you try and sweep it under the rug and play it off as a minor misstep? Would you issue a massive apology through your company’s PR department and hope that the sympathy [...]
Root for the Yankees? I Wish
If only I was a Yankee fan. Rooting for the Bronx Bombers really is baseball nirvana, isn’t it? After all, New York is seemingly in the pennant chase until at least mid-September every single year. And it would be so nice to cheer for a team that considered anything less than perennially winning the World [...]
