The 10 Worst Ned Colletti Signings
Except for maybe one offseason when Frank McCourt was on the verge of bankruptcy, Dodger GM Ned Colletti has been like a kid with dad’s credit card – wildly spending with little or no repercussions. As the team is on the verge of offering Clayton Kershaw a contract in the $200 million range and after Colletti received a contract extension in the offseason and Don Mattingly did not, it’s time to go back and look at some of the worst deals...
read moreThe Charlotte Hornets are Back!
Did anyone else get as excited as we did at such milquetoast news? The Charlotte Bobcats are returning to their roots and bringing back the Hornets name. What they should have done in the announcement was have Larry Johnson, Muggsy Bogues and Alonzo Mourning there. Why did everyone love the Hornets so much when they came into existence back in 1988? Odds are because they were good almost from the very beginning (above .500 in their fourth year)...
read moreMiguel, Jake “The Snake” And the Weekend of Wrestling
Jake “The Snake” Roberts rarely comes up as anyone’s favorite wrestler from the glory days of the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was always overshadowed despite having one of the most popular and devastating finishing moves. Even fringe wrestling fans knew about The DDT. Even Roberts couldn’t describe what DDT stood for, and when asked he just said “The End.” Classic brainiac wrestler. Roberts...
read moreRandom Pro of the Week: Paul Kariya
The video game scene in Swingers was pretty much exactly how my Friday and Saturday nights were spent in high school (minus the tallboys and Pink Dot guy). Hours and hours of playing NHL 96 on Super Nintendo turned my friends and I into bigger dorks than we already were. My parents were pleased, though, since they knew where I was on the weekends because I wasn’t in some orchard drinking. Everyone had their favorite teams to use and I...
read more#ThrowbackThursday – Dick Trickle
News came across my cell phone via a text from my buddy Dizz: “Noooo! Dick Trickle committed suicide! He couldn’t live with the best name in sports history???” While the facts aren’t crystallized on why Trickle shot himself in a cemetery (perhaps it’s easier to bury him that way?) we do know that he was one of the few racers we were aware of before NASCAR went mega-corporate. Why? Because one of the SportsCenter...
read more“The Lakers Beat the SuperSonics”
“Today was a good day” It’s a chorus we all know, but maybe today wasn’t that good of a day as the Kings were voted to stay in Sacramento and not move the franchise to Seattle. We’ve already discussed how awful the Maloofs are (please, read it … it’s about Vegas and drinking and the Palms and the Maloofs … trust us, you’ll love it) but not being able to move a franchise to a city dying for an...
read moreDave Chappelle is Warriors’ Biggest Fan
My buddy texted me from the Warriors’ game the other night. He sent me a picture of his seats and then randomly drops that Dave Chappelle is sitting right behind him. While he didn’t provide a pic when I asked for proof, stories and photos came out revealing that Chappelle, indeed, is a big Warriors’ fan. Apparently, he was in hiding waiting for them to make a playoff appearance. Best of all, my friend’s girlfriend...
read moreRandom Pro of the Week: Von Hayes
Before I would go to a game when I was a kid, I would spread out my baseball cards on the floor and find all the cards of the opposing team. This way, I was aware of some of the players on the other side of the field. Consider it my eight-year-old scouting report. The first time I saw the Phillies play, I was disappointed that they weren’t in their blue uniforms, but I was excited to see one guy: Von Hayes. What a terrific baseball name. And,...
read moreJohn Starks Dunk Remains Highlight of the NBA Playoffs
Anyone else bored by the NBA Playoffs? Spoiler alert: the Heat win it all. Did it feel this way when Michael Jordan and the Bulls were at the very top of their game? In my memory, honestly, it kind of did. However, there were much better contenders to the Bulls reign than there are to the Heat’s throne. And, you can’t think of 1990s playoff basketball without thinking of the big, bad New York Knicks. This was the series everyone watched –...
read more#ThrowbackThursday — The 1983 NFL Draft
It’s probably a given that you’ve heard people discuss the 1983 NFL Draft. It produced three Hall of Fame quarterbacks and several other notable Pro Bowl players and stars. And, with tonight’s first round coinciding with the 30-year anniversary of this draft, we should remove the rose-colored glasses. It’s about damn time. Seemingly every sportscaster and broadcaster loves to wax poetically about the 1983 Draft because...
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