January 2012
2 posts
November 2011
2 posts
Shut up, Bob Costas
On Sunday night, Bob Costas opened the second half of NBC’s Sunday night snoozer between the Steelers and the Chiefs with a rant about touchdown celebrations. He ranted, and raved, and screamed and sounded, frankly, old and dated, which is interesting because it seems he’s spent plenty of money to make himself look otherwise.
And all of it was just … ridiculous. Like keeping Jay...
Is the NBA starting so late really a bad thing?
A sports friend of mine was in a rage last night. Rage. Sitting at a poker table in Las Vegas, his weekly post for work and hair-loss, my buddy simply wanted some sports on the ill-placed televisions around the casino to keep his attention when the cards didn’t quite find his seat.
Normally, that would be the NBA. The Pacers would be playing some meaningless basketball game against the...
October 2011
3 posts
Napoli.
There is a good reason why we all love sports. It isn’t because of guys like Peyton Manning or LeBron James. Yes, we love watching them play because they define logic, both with their athletic abilities and superhuman skills, but it isn’t Peyton and LeBron that make things like postseason sports so great.
At times, yes, they do. We can root for the Derek Jeters and Tiger Woods of...
Gladly saying goodbye to Mike Stoops
When I first unpacked all my bags at the University of Arizona in 2002, I knew few things, but one of those things was that Arizona was a basketball school and only a basketball school. Lute Olson, Jason Gardner, Luke Walton … these were the kings of this city, and that was who you rooted for when you signed your checks over to the U of A.
But little did I know that the football games...
September 2011
1 post
Finding humor in something terrible
I grew up in East Texas, right where the devastating fires are tearing up beautiful parts of that area. There is a place called Camp Fern north of my city that now has had four generations of my family, dating back to my grandmother, and with my nephew attending for the first time this past summer. My grandmother, now 86 beautiful years old, lives out by the camp, on the same lake, and god love...
August 2011
2 posts
Tim Tebow: The 'want' was greater than the 'get'
My senior year of college, I started dating a girl I’d wanted to date since my very first class of freshman year. I was an insecure little kid from a town of 24,000 people in East Texas starting out at the University of Arizona in a town of nearly 1 million people, and didn’t have the slightest idea of what the hell I was going to do, but my first day of class I had a 10 A.M....
The smart, smart side of Dane Cook
On Thursday night, I got set up for my usual routine; a quick dinner and then plop in front of my couch for “Louis,” my favorite show on TV. It isn’t really my favorite show because it’s necessarily entertaining or hilarious, it’s just real. It’s a guy doing exactly what he wants to do for 30 minutes enough and being smart and witty enough to do it. Viewers will...
July 2011
3 posts
The ridiculous argument about what is or isn't a...
I wrote about golf. That’s a fact. Most of you tumblr friends of mine probably don’t care about golf. Also a fact.
And I understand that. Golf isn’t exactly the sexiest of sports. It’s a four or five hour ordeal that involves very little contact (mostly between clubhead and ball, or Bubba Watson and the French) and less athletic ability than most of the other sports. But,...
The Joe Flacco wedding picture says everything you...
If you haven’t seen the Joe Flacco wedding photo, where the Ravens’ quarterback forces his poor wife and friends to act like it’s a football game and she’s the center (Seriously), go look at it right now. Go. I’ll wait.
…
Okay, so you saw it. And it probably took a few seconds to digest. It’s disturbing, obviously, but it is more than that. It’s...
NBC needs to stop acting like it's 1976
Listen, I know I bitch a lot. I do. I’m sorry. I wish I didn’t, but sometimes, things are justified. Like when someone isn’t paying attention and nearly sideswipes you on your bike. Or when a waitress blatantly ignores your table because her friends are at the one next to you and she’s catching up on the latest high school gossip.
Or this. NBC. Still showing tape-delayed...
June 2011
6 posts
An adios to Andy
Andy Roddick is a famous tennis player. Really famous. Super famous. He’s so famous that he married one of the best looking women in the world, a girl so beautiful that my girlfriend a night ago was questioning our movie selection because Brooklyn Decker is in a bikini for most of it. But more than that, Roddick is famous for being Andy. His press conferences are stuff of legends. His...
I thought Bono supported peace
The picture above is obviously from the Vancouver riots from Wednesday night. And that obviously is not Bono. But it looks like him, and that’s the only humor (or humour if you enjoy flipping and burning cars) I can find from this whole thing.
I don’t get why people enjoy acting like complete assholes for no reason. Cool, your team lost, why don’t we go out and make a...
LeBron and the Heat; winning still not enough
The Miami Heat are two wins away from the NBA Championship in their first season as a powerhouse, something that never looked like it would happen over the course of the regular season. They have won games by eight points and two points against the hottest offense in the game after beating both the Boston Celtics and Chicago Bulls in five games.
But an outsider without the stats in from of him...
The brilliance of Roger
It didn’t matter on Sunday that Roger Federer didn’t win his second French Open, or his 17th Grand Slam, adding to his legacy and a record number. It just mattered that he got there, and fought, doing everything that has made him not only a legend in sports, but one of the few dominant sports figures in the history of games that make it easy to root for.
Don’t worry that at 29...
Things people have said to me so far since I broke...
I figured I’d compile a short list of some of the really intelligent things I’ve heard so far from people since I broke my foot a week ago.
— “You don’t want to re-break it.” — a girl friend … thanks, I was planning on re-breaking it this Sunday after a wonderful eggs benedict brunch complimented by a pulp-heavy orange juice
— “Sure,...
May 2011
8 posts
an apology
I broke my foot on Friday, so I’ll probably be publishing a lot more shit here over the next month or so. I’ll apologize now for all of it.
The 'Hangover 2' might just define our current...
On Thursday afternoon, against my better judgement, I hopped in a car with my girlfriend and best buddy to make the lengthy drive to Tempe, Ariz. to buy tickets to “The Hangover 2.” Of the three people in the car, approximately zero had any positive expectation of the Todd Phillips sequel, but we were going per a birthday request and, as a lot of Americans will say over the next couple...
What barry bonds doing good says about us
Here is a social experiment I’m sure is as simple as they come; ask four coworkers around you to say the first thing that comes to their mind when the name “Barry Bonds” is uttered.
Cheater. Steroids. Jerk. Asshole.
That’s what we think, because we are society, and that’s just how life works. When you’re famous, you either go one way or the other, and a lot...
In respect to Balloon Boy, is it fair if we all decide to call the lady that lied about giving her 8-year-old facial injections, Botox Bitch?
My two sentence review of "Bridesmaids"
I went and saw “Bridesmaids” last night, and here is my simple, simple review of the movie.
I laughed enough to enjoy it, and if nothing else, it answered that long-standing question men have always had with women; do they poop? Yes, after Brazilian.
My sister, the superstar
It’s 5:25 AM on a Wednesday, and I’m waking up because I’m not the best sleeper. I wish I was, but it just isn’t in me. I wake up at random times and can’t go back to bed and go through the rigorous battle between man and sheet before I finally decide it’s time to get up. You all know that tango; roll over, head, pillow, repeat.
But at that same moment, my...
Why the Osama death has brought the best and worst...
Last night, sitting in my sister’s house, a place that used to host a man that spent time in Afghanistan during this unending war, I got a Twitter update. And then another. And another. And all of a sudden I was switching away from my movie to CNN, a place I hardly spend time these days because it seems the news is harder and harder to watch. But this was important. Our president was going...
March 2011
4 posts
A very proud Wildcats fan
There are very few times in my life when I was super proud of somebody or something. The day my sister decided to stand up for herself in a tough situation was one of them. The day my best friend figured out the right move and did it was another. And Saturday, March 26, might go down as another.
Why? Because my beloved Arizona Wildcats lost. They didn’t win a game they absolutely could...
Why the University of Arizona is better than Duke
…written by a former Wildcat.
— We have an exclamation mark in our school’s motto.
— Just under a third of each year in Durham is spent in the rain, while Tucson has an average of 3,802 hours of sunshine per year.
— You guys idea of fun is camping out in the cold for months to be the first inside Cameron Indoor. Ours is camping out by the pool for months, but...
new college recruiting strategy
Just a random idea I had for professional sports teams looking to sign a player in a draft … if the kid is a senior, the team’s MAIN voice should be the senior sports editor at the kid’s college newspaper.
The editor is a guy that has been there all four years with the player, watched him very closely, and has probably interviewed/talked/seen him in action on and off the...
February 2011
2 posts
does sourcing during breaking news even matter...
On Monday night, I, like a lot of NBA fans, were sitting around watching whatever they could watch to get them ready for the second half of the 2011 season. A pretty excellent All-Star game had just wrapped, and we get that lull day before action kicks off again.
I spent the evening watching some college basketball, and that so happened to be on ESPN, when news broke that Carmelo Anthony was...
why the arizona wildcats define east coast bias
I must begin this with a very relevant disclaimer; I went to the University of Arizona. It was an amazing time. I wrote for the newspaper there, and covered, among other sports, the men’s basketball team.
I must admit one other thing; my senior class was the first under Lute Olson to not make a Final Four. I got in as the team was budding, with both Sports Illustrated and the then-relevant...
December 2010
2 posts
the ignorance of tucker carlson
On Tuesday night, Tucker Carlson, made famous when Jon Stewart called him out for just about everything that is wrong with today’s media, was guest hosting a show on Fox News, bow-tie free.
The news came up that Barack Obama had called the Philadelphia Eagles and congratulated them on giving Micheal Vick, someone who was made famous for killing dogs and spending 21 months in prison for his...
the pet name game
When you first look at the word “pet name,” you think of a significant other; someone you love, that you call “baby” or “schmukums” or “honey bun.” But that isn’t what I’m talking about. Those are formal, and are only reserved for people you know and are intimate in some form or the other.
No, I’m talking about the informal pet...
November 2010
2 posts
why the rally to restore sanity might have...
For full disclosure, I must begin this by saying that I love Jon Stewart. Love him. I think he’s a brilliant man, and normally when I play the game with my buddies to pick one famous person to hang with for a day, Stewart is near the top of my list (right next to that guy that once tried to fight Jim Rome).
That being said, when I heard they were going to lead a rally in Washington D.C.,...
October 2010
2 posts
a very fuzzy 'bullying' line
As anyone with a wireless connection knows, the last month and a half has brought about a new epidemic in our society; kids bullying other kids to the point of no return.
The state of emergency started when a few kids posted a live webcam of a fellow college student kissing another man, poking fun at the fact that this man was a homosexual. The joke was passed around on Twitter, and it ended up...
September 2010
3 posts
the town ... a great 100 minute movie
For a week I’ve tried to convince a friend of mine to go see “The Town,” Ben Affleck’s latest directing job, with me. He wasn’t that excited, telling me repeatedly that he felt it would be terrible.
But, we went. He came with as I attempted to convince him that a movie about bad guys in Boston was still a cliche worth pursing. The movie kicked off and we were glued,...
August 2010
2 posts
dinner for schmuckkjdjkfdarghhhh
No matter what you do, there are expectations. Some people go to weddings with the idea they’ll get laid. Some people on family vacations with hope that past problems don’t rise to the surface. Some people head to movies with an idea of just what you’re about to pay ten bucks to see.
On Monday I went to see “Dinner for Schmucks,” not because I was particularly...
July 2010
2 posts
why inception is catching our attention
On Tuesday, I went to the movies to wrap my head around “Inception” fever. To be fair, I’d heard a lot about it on Twitter and the likes, but I avoided reading anything about it, mainly because I hate overhype in movies, and I was busy all week with British Open stuff and didn’t have time to do anything else.
So, I hit the 8:00 viewing at Tempe Marketplace, and left very...
The death of the live chat
This weekend was the British Open, one of four major championships in the world of golf. It’s an event that has been around longer than Coca-Cola, and outside of the United States, is considered the ONE huge event of the year (the winner is announced as “champion golfer of the year” by the Royal and Ancient, the governing body of all golf outside of North America).
During these...
April 2010
3 posts
How racial profiling became legal in Arizona, and...
I have lived in Arizona for a total of about eight years of my life. I love the place. While the summers are something most can’t stand, I don’t mind ‘em, because it allows cheaper golf and less snowbirds and a chance to hang by the pool and drink a (quickly melting) margarita. It’s a place I call home because I love it for so many reasons.
And then things like this...
The most annoying people in Las Vegas
This weekend I was in Las Vegas for, you guessed it, a bachelor party. It was my best bud’s shindig, so I had to accompany him and seven other friends as we sausage fested our way around the city. While there, I ran into just about all the annoying characters you see when in LV (including us, the “annoying bachelor party guys that think they’re way funnier than they really...
The difference in a post, a blog, a comment, a...
Just go ahead and forward this to anyone that is old/cranky, I’m sure it will help. As a writer online, you run into this problem all the time. People just don’t get the difference in any of this, so here goes.
A post — A post is a story online. It can be on a blog, on a website, on tumblr, on anything.
A blog — A blog is a website, not a singular story. You cannot say,...
March 2010
1 post
Five phrases during March Madness that make it...
“As a token of our appreciation for you guys this year, we ordered lunch in both Thursday and Friday.”
“I’m a Leno guy, so to boycott all the trash talking to Jay, I’m block CBS.com from the Internet.”
“That project is due on Monday, so we’re going to need you to come in this weekend.”
“We will be having a meeting today from 9 AM to 5...