WNBA To Be More Like NBA By Recruiting Felons

Remember this woman? It’s perfectly understandable if you don’t, as it is an open secret that Americans only pretend to care about the Olympics every four years. It is also possible that you may recall her looking more like this: If you still don’t know, that’s disgraced Olympic trackster Marion Jones moments before she was stripped of… Read More WNBA To Be More Like NBA By Recruiting Felons

Frankly, I’m Surprised Olympic Athletes Don’t Die More Often

Please don’t misunderstand me. I am not making light of what happened to Nodar Kumaritashvili. It is genuinely a tragedy. But you have to understand, luge is all about riding a 50-pound sled down a frozen laundry chute at 90 miles per hour. While the closest I ever got to luge was a regular sled powered by peppermint… Read More Frankly, I’m Surprised Olympic Athletes Don’t Die More Often

Ten Nobel Prize Injustices and Their Equivalent Sports Injustices

We are suckers for lists. VH-1 always manages to suck people in with those “100 greatest songs of the 80’s” nostalgia-fests. Not to mention we sports fans never met a list over which we didn’t love to drunkenly argue. There’s even a website dedicated to such listery.  I’m no different; I can play moth to the candle… Read More Ten Nobel Prize Injustices and Their Equivalent Sports Injustices