Gilbert Arenas
2010 NBA All-Troublemaker Team
Since we are coming up fast on the NBA All-Star game, we are celebrating everything the best of the best athletes of this league have to offer. After all, the league will live and die but its superstars. So since everyone else is recognizing the good, all me to accentuate the bad: My All-Troublemaker Team: Starters: Point [...]
Arenas needs wake up call
Those who know me know I am a huge Gilbert Arenas fan, and that he has always been one my favorite players to watch in the NBA over the course of his career. That said, I feel I owe it to myself to write about his situation, the latest chapter of which had him reaching [...]
A Pearl in the fire
Over the course of his career, it’s safe to say Tennessee men’s head basketball coach Bruce Pearl has been anything but conventional. Blowing the whistle on potential recruiting violations at a rival school and painting his chest along with his players and attending a Lady Vols game are just a couple of examples of Pearl operating on his own level. But [...]
Blame the athletes (I know I do)
Over the course of the last 30 years, ESPN has become the sports media giant. It has a monopoly on the industry and has crushed all of its competition. (Remember CNN/SI? Yeah–me, neither.) So why is this? Why has the four-letter network become so huge? Why does an overwhelming majority of the population flip on their [...]
Ten things that won’t (but should) happen in 2010
When I was ringing in the new year at my buddy Troy’s house early Friday morning, I got the great idea of writing about the ten things that should happen in sports over the next 12 months. After reviewing the list, I realized that most of them are only slightly less likely to happen than Al Pacino [...]
