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...

Kudos to the MLB Network for showing baseball movies – even when they have plenty of programming with the season now in full swing. And we’re not talking about a constant rotation of Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, The Sandlot, The Bad News Bears, etc. but almost any baseball movie will get some airtime on the channel. A terrific marketing move, coming a few years after the introduction of the channel, but a welcome addition,...

  There have been tons of villains in sports and fans are inherently going to dislike a few. But I don’t think I’ve ever outright hated an athlete more than I hated Doug Christie. It was all of his histrionics drawn out even more so by playing on a team full of prima donnas who never won anything. Vlade flopped. Webber always complained. Peja was soft. The toughest players on those Sacramento Kings teams were the point guards...

Here’s the rule: Any distraction before the Super Bowl will cause you to have a terrible game and your team will lose. This is not up for debate. Chris Culliver showed a severe form of homophobia, made anti-gay remarks and then played a horrendous game as Joe Flacco consistently picked on him. Culliver is as much to blame for the 49ers loss as any one player. Barret Robbins took off two days before the Super Bowl to party in Tijuana. He...

It’s no wonder that so many people gawk in wonder at teams or players that just score massive amounts of points. It’s the easiest thing to do in sports and it’s the only part you truly understand when you watch as a kid. The object is to score and when you’re eight years old and have trouble paying attention anyway, it’s simple to follow. That’s why Oregon football now and LMU basketball in the heyday draws everyone’s...

Kobe Bryant became the youngest player to reach 30,000 career points on Wednesday night, one of just five players in NBA history to do so. It’s amazing to think that Bryant is now sitting alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, Karl Malone and Michael Jordan. It got us thinking about the so-called “Kobe Stopper.” Yup, good ol’ Ruben Patterson. The man so good at stopping Kobe, he barely registers a blip on the...