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NBA General

Are NBA Refs Pulling for the Lakers?

Ahhh, playoff time in the NBA.  Also known as Lakers get all the calls time.  (See last year’s How Fixed is the NBA? column.)  Well, after the Madsen trying to foul Shaq / Telling the ref he’s fouling Shaq / Shaq acknowledging that he was being fouled / no call from Dan Crawford fiasco, I decided to study the 4th quarter of game 4 to see if there really was a bias at the Staples Center.  Here are my running notes.  I will admit I can’t stand the Lakers but if you have the game taped, you can go back and find the times and confirm or refute my findings.

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Random Thoughts

Top 22 MCs

I was reading through the Sportscolumn archives when I stumbled upon this short column about the Top 22 MCs of all time.  This was originally posted a year ago right around this time.  (The Dead Zone – when nothing is going on in sports.)  Top X lists are always good for a debate.  Here’s the list and my opinion:

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General Sports

Women We Love

One of the most popular parts of SC.com is the Women We Love.  Sure I stole this from Esquire magazine but hell, they really are women we love right?  Unless of course you’re gay.  (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)  

Here’s your chance you comment on the women we already have and suggest any new ones.

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MLB General

Give Bonds a Break

Plop! A fish floats up sideways to the top of the water. Barry Bonds has just swatted his 661st homerun passing Willie Mays for third all time. He also took the life away from one unlucky fish all in one swing.

With rumors swirling about Bonds’ probable steroid use, he continues to play above anything conceivable.  He nearly had a 9 game home run streak.  Forget about DiMaggio’s 56 game hit streak, a 9 game home run streak defines unbreakable!  Most aspire to hit .300, while he is hitting close to .500.

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Philadelphia Flyers

Back to the Fun Stuff

Now that The Revolution (that’s this site if you haven’t been paying attention) has launched, I can go back to doing what I enjoy most: ranting and raving. But before I get to that, some thoughts on being a Flyers fan.  You know those laboratory rats that constantly push the lever looking for a treat but end up getting an electric shock instead?  I feel like one of those rats.

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Philadelphia Eagles

Apathy creates the Unthinkable…

Well I’ve officially seen it all. From the pope watching American inner city kids break dance to transexuals allowed to compete in the OLYMPICS, the apocalypse is officially upon us.

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General Sports

Welcome to the Revolution!

Why am I calling this The Revolution?  Because Sportscolumn.com was built to tear down all the pre-established rules of what sports journalism should be.  As an avid (and rabid) sports fan, I just can’t get enough.  I love the commentary. I love the highlights.  I love the debates on sports talk radio.  But what bothered me was that the people who deliver the commentary, who direct the talk on sports radio, who write all the columns we read, seldom know any more than die-hard knowledgeable fans.   In fact they’re often just flat out wrong.

The Revolution doesn’t want to hear anymore from “professional” columnists who seem intent on only tallying up word counts and writing columns so ludicrous as to beg to be emailed around in disbelief.  Sportscolumn knows that there are thousands of “amateur” sportswriters out there that could build a better following than any of these nationally known hacks.

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Dallas Mavericks

The Mysteries of Dallas

[originally posted July 11, 2003]

I got these from a Philly fan (thanks Big Philly) who got it from a friend who got it from a friend, etc..etc.

Hey, I’m drunk off my ass! (and I’m giving you the finger!)

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General Sports

We Need a Revolution!

[originally posted April 27, 2004]

This column is going to sound like marketing copy (and trust me, I’m no marketer) but we need some fresh blood in sports journalism. I’ve been working on Sportscolumn 2.0 for a little bit of time now. It’s slow going but that’s what happens when you have no deadline and you actually have a full time job. (This is also my excuse for not having posted anything in 3 weeks.)

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NFL General

The 2003 Nate Newton-Bam Morris Award goes to…

(originally posted June 25, 2003)

Cardinals FB Dennis McKinley.

Apparently, he couldn’t live on a professional football salary so he was smuggling in marijuana from Mexico, storing it in a warehouse and then shipping it out via tractor trailer (not to be confused with the Hornet’s forward) to major cities in the United States. McKinley was the “mastermind” of a drug smuggling operation. Oh, I’m sorry… allegedly. I love it. You win the athletic lottery and still try to sell drugs? What is his excuse? Just trying to find a way to get out of the ghetto? Was the 1500+ lbs of pot for personal use? (ironic that Cypress Hill’s “legalize” just popped up on my iPod.)