Quality Start: Finally

Thank god in heaven.  Hallelujah, praise something or other else.  College Football season is finally over.  Last night’s final BCS game featuring the guy with a god complex and the other guys who probably bang cows marks the conclusion of the most oppressive time of year for people who simply don’t give a shit about [...]

Nothing to Click Here

Welcome to the first NTCH of the New Year [pauses for applause].  Thank you for your kindness [standing ovation.....].  Please, please, that’s more than enough [men start throwing their daughters onstage].  I appreciate that, but I don’t need your daughters.  I’m married.  In fact we have a bit of a stunning announcement today.  Yup, you [...]

A Spring Training Preview

It’s a mere month and a half until pitchers and catchers report for duty and I’m chomping at the bit in anticipation of Spring Training.  I’ve been attending Spring Traning games and practices since I was a kid and it’s easily my favorite time of year.  There’s a park less than a mile from where [...]

John Hollinger’s Rankings Could Use Some Work

We might need to create a new Nobel Prize to honor poor analysis in the field of Sports Mathematics.  And if anyone’s going to win the first one, it has to be John Hollinger whose brilliant mathematical mind devised a formula so groundbreaking, that it successfully ranked the Milwaukee Bucks fifth out of a field [...]

Under the Lights: Resoluted

It’s the final week of the old year (the new year starts when I return to work on Monday) and I can’t wait until it’s over.  Your buddy Hef is a progressive sumbitch and he’s ready to forget the past and forge his way into the future.  Hef lives in the now and in third [...]

Video Sunday: The Best Viral Videos of 2008

This is how montages were supposed to be done [ed. note: even Rocky had a montage...a montage.]

Quality Start: Home Field Advantage Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

So uh…um…that was…well I mean you can see where….There are no words, really.  Yesterday’s NFL playoff action was another fine example of the flukiness of professional football and their playoff ranking rules.  Clearly the away teams yesterday should have been considered the favorites.  Both had superior records in tougher divisions and yet, and yet, both [...]