Monthly Archive: February 2015

A Changing of the Guards

The standings in the NBA look like they have been flipped upside down. The teams that used to win all the time are near the bottom and the teams that used to lose all...

A Fairy Tale Ending

Once upon a time there was a team. It was a team that wanted to be like the little engine that could, except for this team, this engine was more likely to be a...

The Riv

I love the late, great sportswriter Jim Murray. He once did one of his excellent columns about the great L.A. area golf course Riviera Country Club, the host of the Northern Trust (L.A.) Open....

Major Accomplishments

The Masters will be coming along soon, and with that, there will be another year’s worth of anticipation as to who will win professional golf’s four majors. Another season to ponder whose era of...

A Great Sports Movie

Most people have seen the majority of the great sports movies like “Rocky,” “Bull Durham,” “Hoosiers,” “Caddyshack,” ‘Field of Dreams,” “Slap Shot,” etc. There are others (“Rudy,” “Raging Bull,” “Remember the Titans”) that show...

Tark The Shark

Wow, was this a sad week for college basketball, or what? We lost two of the true titans of the college basketball coaching profession in the last four days, as we learned of the...

Tiger Woods at the Masters in 2006

Tiger Woods Is Me

A decade or so ago, when Tiger Woods was dominating golf like no one else had ever done, his sponsor Nike came up with an advertising campaign where Tiger’s young admirers could join in...

Why We Love Football

If you want to see why the American sports fan loves its professional football, all you need to do is look at what just happened at Super Bowl XLIX. It’s all there in the...

Super Second Guess

The 2014 football season is over, and the Seattle Seahawks will have an entire off season to second guess themselves after they bungled a golden opportunity to come back and win the 49th Super...