Sorry if I’ve been a little quiet lately, been battling a bug that has left my head rather cloudy–making it very difficult to formulate coherent thoughts.
February has always struck me as an odd month in sports. Everything seems to be on the “verge”. Baseball season is on the verge of starting (for that [...]

Ah, the Los Angeles Clippers. Perpetually LA’s second team, 2008-2009 is proving to be one of the worst seasons ever even for a franchise for which mediocrity is a hallmark.
What particularly hurts for the Clips and their fans this year is that coming into the season, hopes and expectations were unusually high.
The Clippers have been [...]

DISCLAIMER Born and raised in a small Pittsburgh suburb where the smell of slag meant people were working hard and proud of it. I wear Pirate gear as proudly as Steeler and Penguin stuff.
Last week, I‘m in a sports bar the Flyers are losing a hockey game, the Steelers rallying against [...]

A few weeks ago I postulated that Mike Dunleavy might be the third NBA coach fired this season, unless the Clippers brass granted him a brief reprieve to measure the efficacy of the Zach Randolph-Cuttino Mobley deal.  At the time Los Angeles was 2-11. Since the trade the Clippers are 4-6–not great, but a significant [...]

A few days ago I predicted that the LA Clippers would be the next NBA franchise to fire their head coach after a woeful start to the season, but the Toronto Raptors (whose 8-9 record is far superior to the 3-14 mark that Mike Dunleavy’s team has achieved) have just given the pink slip to [...]

First  the Oklahoma City Thunder fired head coach P.J. Carlesimo after a miserable 1-12 start.  Now the Washington Wizards have fired Eddie Jordan after a nearly as pathetic 1-10 kickoff to the season.  It would appear that NBA franchise front offices are starting the 2008-2009 season with unusally short patience for coaches of underperforming teams.
Jordan’s firing [...]