THE DALLAS CRYBOYS
Being from Texas: the first yellow flag against them. There seems to be a built in arrogance emanating from a lot of Texans I meet. Yeah, I know, biggest state, big egos, blah, blah, blah…
I thought I had let go of that personal bias until George Bush, eviscerated the Constitution, tortured [...]

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 [...]

Round 1 of the NFL playoffs is complete. Some games were close, some were… well, not so close, and perhaps even those were closer in final score than they really were on the field. So, what did you learn? Here are my musings (some serious, some slightly less so) based upon the just completed Wild [...]

Week 15 is over and the NFC Playoff Picture is as murky as ever. With only two positions clinched (the New York Giants in the East and the Arizona Cardinals in the West), eleven teams are very much alive. Shockingly, the Giants, who a mere two weeks ago (i.e. before the Plaxico Burress fiasco and [...]

The NFL has fined the Dolphins’ Channing Crowder and the Patriots’ Matt Light each $15,000 for their on-field fight this past Sunday?
$15,000?  That’s it?  Both players deserved a suspension.  $15,000 is a drop in the bucket to top-tier athletes, neither a significant punishment nor a deterrent to other players for future brawls.  Football is a [...]

Parity, thy name is the NFL.  To be sure, at 10-1 each the Tennessee Titans and New York Giants are running away with the AFC and NFC, respectively, but after those two teams…  The next 17 teams all have records of either 8-3 (4), 7-4 (7) or 6-5 (6).  How close together are the majority [...]