Archive for May, 2009

Don't worry Cleveland fans. Your time will come.
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Dr. Sportsfan made a few choice tweets to SI uber sports writer Peter King. This just in, Dr. Sports fan: Peter King tweets back!
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So we’re at the conference finals, with everyone but the Detroit Red Wings now four wins away from playing for hockey’s ultimate prize. But really, it seems like there are only two contenders for the Stanley Cup: the aforementioned Red Wings and the Pittsburgh Penguins.
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Alexander Ovechkin. Sidney Crosby. They're the NHL's two marquee players. And they hate each other. Forty Percent. That's how many cable subscribers had the opportunity to watch these players and their respective teams do battle for seven games to win the right to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals.
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Jack's been spot on in predicting the sports future these past few weeks of Taking Back Sports' infancy. Today, Jack ponders whether or not this is Phil Jackson's last season as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers.
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The Mets and Phillies have enjoyed a one-sided rivalry for the last two years. The Phillies have ruled while the Mets have drooled. (Wow, how terribly high-schoolic of me). To avoid further ridicule by using phrases that kids were using in 1995-2000, let me proceed.
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Will Manny's 50-game suspension doom the Dodgers? Our resident prognostication guru, Jack, sees all and he believes that things will be ok in Dodgertown.
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Let’s face the facts. No matter how bad your NFL team is, you can always hang your hat on the following ... “As bad as we are right now, at least we’re not __________.” In the 80s up until about 1995, that statement applied to the Tampa Bay Creamsicles (Buccaneers).
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