I don’t mind them shooting a fade-away, I just don’t want that to be their primary weapon. The Dream had a great fade-away, but he also was a beast in the paint. As I said, I’m old school: I want my center and power forward to be inside guys first and foremost (think Tim Duncan or Pau Gasol). For every Dirk Nowitzki,…

I generally blame soccer fan boorishness on the fact that most of the idiots are either (1) drunk or (2) about to be drunk (ref.: every EPL game, ever). But as a predominantly Muslim population, I would think Turks wouldn’t have nearly as much drunken idiocy. Blood feuds based on neighborhood geography, yes (see:…

I think he was more like rugby’s Babe Ruth. He was a wing in a prop’s body. Watch footage from the pre-Lomu days and you see the classic big, strong guys up front and “small,” quick guys at the back. Post-Lomu, almost everybody is big and fast. A huge loss for the sports world. Condolences to the Lomu and All Blacks…

Pics or it didn’t happen.

All in all, this is probably good for McHale. Harden has always been one step from turning into Carmelo or Iverson (or a lesser Kobe without any defense at all), so the Rockets could be in for a horrible underachieving fall this season. McHale gets out before that happens with a great rep. Dumb Rockets.

And yet, 7’3” guys doing fade-aways make me crazy. Maybe he becomes the new Dirk, but I guess I’m old school and want big guys to take the ball to the rim. At least at this (admittedly totally early) point, I don’t see Porzingis being able to defend NBA small forwards, so either he dramatically improves his D or he…

First, I absolutely disagree with your wife, because I am the father of 4 kids and find this hilarious. Second, my wife often tells me that some of my best parenting ideas are idiotic (e.g., encouraging our preschool to purchase stun belts like they use on recalcitrant defendants in criminal trials; push a button and…

He’s not really 7’3” is he? Didn’t the announcers in the first clip say that?

I don’t think the studies support the idea of microtraumas having the same effect in soccer headers as they do in football. I think dkfree2’s point is supported by the article: “The direct act of heading the ball isn’t necessarily a problem. The study found that only 4.7% of boys’ concussions and 8.2% of girls’…

Not wanting to wish ill of the dead, but I’m hoping this is explained by massive drug use, because I agree with you: “catastrophic organ failure” is a phrase that should not be used for anyone, let alone a 29-year old former professional athlete. If you think you’re scared, I’m 52.

You’ve got to think that BBWA voters will rush to vote for someone with eye-popping stats who basically remained untouched by any PEDs stain throughout his career. Clemens, Bonds, Sosa, Rodriguez, Palmeiro, McGwire, Sheffield; they almost ruined the old “guaranteed first-ballot HOF” numbers. The taint of their…

When I was about 6, my Indian Guides troop went miniature golfing. At the end of our outing, the older boys were all bragging about their scores: “I shot a 67” “Oh yeah, well I shot a 58!” My understanding of sports at that age was based on basketball, football, and baseball, where the most points win. Not wanting to…

Nick Young had no idea the clock was running out on the quarter. He just thought “Hey, I’m open. I can hit this.”

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me 108 years and counting, its like getting sad that you didn’t win the Powerball. Its just not going to happen.

This is the problem with baseball: you can have the Cy Young and runner-up on your staff and still lose more than half your games. You can have the best player of all-time (see, SF Giants w/Bonds) or the best young player in MLB history (see, LA Angels w/Trout) and have zero championships to show for it. Like…

I don’t think it is necessarily true that Odor would have scored regardless. It would have required a seamless barehand grab and throw from Donaldson to beat Odor, but Donaldson clearly gave up on the play once Scott signaled dead ball. I don’t think Rule 5.02 (raised by HighAndTight below) covers this situation. I…

Kirk Gibson is going to stand outside the Blue Jays spring training facility and encourage every opposing pitcher to put one in Joey Bats’s ear for “disrespecting the game.” The cheers from the Cardinals’ training camp will be heard from 215 miles away.

That’s some serious MLB fuck up. The ump clearly called time and the Blue Jays reacted accordingly. The fact that that was the wrong thing for the ump to do doesn’t matter. If an official in an NFL game incorrectly calls a fumbled ball dead, the ball is dead. Thank God Joey Bats saved Dale Scott’s ass.

(1) I don’t care what demographic you’re talking about, parents are the worst part of youth sports.

My son, who is a semi-Steelers fan (for some reason, he always loved Troy Polamalu), and I watched this in the bar at Chili’s (I am a horrible parent) and argued about the play call on the way home. I still contend this was an terrible call by Tomlin that actually failed and should have cost the Steelers the game,…