While Chicago had the comical Harry Caray, St. Louis the poetic Jack Buck, and New York the distinctive Mel Allen; Philadelphia had a best friend in Harry Kalas. In an age when sports figures have had a rough go of things in Philly (to put it lightly), Harry was a man that owned a...
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The headline said it all.
Baseball Writers Brace for the End.
Granted, I know a lot of sports fans didn't see it, but that was the main article in Tuesday's sports section of the Wall Street Journal.
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My girlfriend is really nice girl. In fact, she's sometimes too nice.
She loves to shop, wants very badly to get a puppy, and is a few weeks away from graduating from law school.
She is many things, but what she is not is a sports fan. Sorry, that's an understatement.
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Not a bad first day for Taking Back Sports if I do say so myself.
New York Times sports writer Ken Belson seems to have taken an interest in how the average sports fan is affected by the new stadiums for both the Yankees and the Mets — just as I did for my very first Taking Back...
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The past couple months have not been kind to anyone’s wallet.
As my dad always said, “My money’s funny. When I take out my wallet, it laughs at me.”
While this current economic situation has been bad news bears to everyone (well, almost everyone), I also remember my dad telling me that there’s a silver lining...
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Few sports fans in the history of sports are as tortured as Buffalo Bills fans. Watching their team lose of an NFL record four straight Super Bowls, fail to make the playoffs for the past decade and deal with the Curse of the Flutie are things that few sports franchises must deal with on their own...
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I was just reading about Jose Canseco’s demands for an apology from baseball when I found myself wondering the following question:
When did sports stop being fun?
I know it didn’t happen overnight, nor have I not enjoyed my sports fan experiences individually. It just seems that most major sports stories, in the past several years, have...
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This was a turning point for me as a sports fan.
If you look back to my last post (beautifully titled How on Earth did I find myself watching the Lifetime Movie Network and Ironing Clothes this evening?) you will remember that Jason and I walked, what appeared to be, 45 minutes from where we parked...
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My manhood and I have officially reached rock bottom.
That is not the situation that any decent heterosexual man (not that there’s anything wrong with anything else…) should want to find himself in. But that is exactly where I was just four short hours ago.
You see, I have given up Sportscenter. Yes, I have not...
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