Archive for July, 2008

Individual End-Game

From TrueHoop:
Anyway, talk of posterizing, breaking ankles … that’s all about humiliation, and that’s absolutely a part of basketball. A big part of it.
And when it comes to using basketball to humilate your opponent, there is a certain scale. Shooting a jumper over someone is maybe a one. Beating someone to the hoop for a [...]

No Tiger Woods=Bad ESPN

I don’t usually talk about how bad announcing coverage is for any sporting event just because it seems like sour grapes, but it’s worth discussing how bad ESPN’s coverage for The Open Championship has been. And this is generally surprising. Normally I don’t notice golf announcers; they provide a little bit of background, they talk [...]

Winning is Surving

(Posted this originally on Yardbarker Backyard)
How often do athletes bring out the best in each other?
It’s an interesting question to ponder after Rafael Nadal took Wimbeldon away from Roger Federer in the fading English light. It was one of those titanic clashes you never forget watching. It was the equivalent of watching Beethoven [...]