I was watching ESPN’s coverage of the NBA Draft Lottery tonight and was highly amused by a sequence after they threw it back to Dan Patrick and company. (By the way, does anyone seem less confident or qualified to be talking sports than Dan Patrick at this stage? Watching him cover the NBA is sorta [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Jon Barry: Idiot? Or just everything wrong with ESPN?
Posted in ESPN, NBA Draft on May 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Speed…well, doesn’t really “kill”, but Mayweather wins
Posted in Boxing on May 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Just a few quick thoughts:
It’s hard to judge from home; I’ll be the first to acknowledge that. Still, I think that was an exceptionally close fight and the close split decision was completely fair. Mayweather did a tremendous job throughing his potshots here and there, landing a few flush, but Oscar was much more competent [...]
de la Hoya-Mayweather
Posted in Boxing on May 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Years ago, in the days when Usenet ruled the world, I spent a lot of time knocking around rec.sports.boxing, or RSB. There were probably 40 or so “regulars” at the time I was there: i cheeuhuahua, The Sanity Cruzer, Dannews (aka Dan Rafael, now a bigshot boxing writer), dci, and lots of other internet handles.
I [...]
(Cliche’ Alert!) I’m Back!!!
Posted in Vandermint on May 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s a staple of blogs, really. There’s the occassional blogger who keeps churning out content everyday, but for every one of those there’s a hundred or more of the rest of us who go at it a while and then just kinda stop.
And then, at some point, there’s the ubiquitous “I’ve returned/My life is more [...]
