This time of year is a tough time to be a Chicago Cubs fan. I know your initial reaction to that statement may be, “Well, every time of year is a tough time to be a Chicago Cubs fan.” But this year is different. The other day, the team tried to trade away …
Read moreSince January, I’ve been planning a wedding. Well, I should say, my fiancée has been planning a wedding. There is a lot that goes into planning a wedding, more than I ever thought before. You see, originally I thought it was fairly simple: book a church, a …
Read moreSo, this week I learned something about what I do: I am not a long form writer. After watching the LeBron James “Decision” last week, I began thinking about how what he did to his fans and had the idea of comparing “The Decision” to …
Read moreIf there are three things that American sports fans like its underdogs, fast breaks, and last-second scores. Luckily for soccer enthusiasts, the latest US World Cup match featured all three. The recent World Cup victory by the U.S. over Algeria certainly …
Read moreLast night, the NBA Finals concluded with the Lakers defeating the Celtics, winning the franchise’s 16th NBA Championship and second in a row. I had gone into morning thinking about how to write this blog intro about the sloppy game (but in a positive …
Read moreIn case you’ve been living in a cave these past few days, allow me to be the first to inform you that the Chicago Blackhawks won the NHL Championship for the first time in 49 years. That’s not to say that I played any part in rooting for them. I …
Read moreThe fall and spring television lineups (or as I like to call them, the ‘A’ teams) are just about done for the season. It was a pretty good year for A-team television, some new shows like Community heading out with some steam, and some older ones, like …
Read moreOver the last few days, all of the talk in the sports world seemingly revolved around LeBron James and his ineffective and almost uninspired play in Game 5 against the Celtics in the NBA Playoffs. So much hype and torch-passing has already begun with LeBron …
Read moreAbout five months ago, I wrote a Links of the Week blog in which I introduced my first case of ‘Blogger’s Block’. Since that time, I hadn’t had to worry about blocks- the 2010 sports landscape has provided me a solid basis of something to …
Read moreOver the last two weeks, if one thing has beeen made clear to me more than anything else, it’s that Facebook is taking over the web. Last week, they announced that, as long as your computer knows you are logged on to Facebook, many of the sites you go …
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